NASCAR has always been interesting to watch because of the sheer speeds involved. With speed comes danger, and with danger comes excitement — you can't see racing like this anywhere else. But by the ...
Red Byron won the first NASCAR race on Feb. 15, 1948, on the sandy road course at Daytona Beach, Florida. The mechanic for Byron's souped-up number 22 1939 Ford V8 Standard Coupe was Louis Jerome "Red ...