History
NASCAR was first born in 1949 when the Winston Cup series was made. There was a long line of stockcar champions waiting. In the later years of NASCAR when the champions began to come from stockcar racing the major champions of the time were Richard Petty and David Pearson. The two would change history of NASCAR forever. In the seventies there were many good racers but the one of the best of that time was Cale Yarlborough. He won four championships and racked up an outstanding total of seven hundred and seventy points. As the champions began to retire it brought in a new flow of drivers. The new drivers were Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Bill Elliott, and Michael Waltrip. It was always a fight between them as to who would get the championship. The major champion of the eighty’s was Dale Earnhardt. The turn of the decade would bring a new champion to the mix. Jeff Gordon had been racing for awhile but with years of experience and a new race car he won many championships during the ninety’s. The turn of the century brought on many new racers. Bobby Labonte was a long time racer that was rising to the top. His brother Terry Labonte had been a two time champion in the eighty’s and the ninety’s. Bobby Labonte in two thousand drove the Interstate Batteries Pontiac and won the championship in two-thousand.
Equipment The equipment used back in the early years of NASCAR was just a basic car with a number painted on it, a helmet, and some pads and body gear. As the years past the cars used for racing got safer and different makes began to get used. The newer cars had better padding and a better structure, so if the driver got in a wreck it would protect him better. The helmets were built stronger and the pads became thicker and more comfortable.

Rules and Regulations
As NASCAR has evolved through the ages the rules haven’t changed much. The rules only changed with the cars. There can be more support over the door in case of a wreck, and the engines have to be a certain make. The carburetor had to be a certain make that restricted the gas so the car would run as it is supposed to. There are a total of forty three drivers on the track at any one time. The drivers could not drill holes in the roll cage enabling for the car to go faster. Doing this would give the bars less strength and they would collapse in a race. A NASCAR must be equipped with a radio and the driver must have gloves, seatbelts, uniforms, and fire safety equipment. Over the years the rules have been enforced more.

now that they have actually given me some NASCARs to paint on, I think it would only be fitting, and fun to start a league.
My garage the Next Level will have these cars painted up quickly, and we will have special prices for the members of our website.  Here is the link.
Get signed up and register for the league.  The website is only a day old, but I figure we have like 2 weeks to get it all figured out.
Like I said earlier, get signed up early, and we will be sure to have special pricing on these cars for the members of our site, as well as some website exclusive paint schemes.  Should be a blast!
Here are some of my Nascars that I had painted on pontiac GTO’s.  There is no limit to the people that sign up.  We can have as many groups as necessary.

Jason Philis is not unlike a bunch of NASCAR fans these days.

He’s been a fan of the sport for most of his life. Since he was about 3, he figures. And he’s got some issues with the way NASCAR is changing.
“Maybe I’m too much of an old school fan to appreciate this ‘better’ NASCAR, but I feel there has been a steady drop off of what made this sport great,” Philis wrote in an E-mail this week. “Drivers in their cars going 500 miles to prove who the better driver is. What happened to that?”
As Philis figures, with the new car styles and technological advances, the driver only has about 10% input into winning and the rest lies on the shoulders of technology and what happens back at the shop.
The new car design partially implemented last year, and fully in place this season, has a bit to do with that change.
However, ask any NASCAR star about driving these cars and they all say they’re working harder than ever to get around the track. In some ways, that’s actually been a throwback to the days when guys like Buddy Baker hurled cars around a speedway.
NASCAR’s thinking behind the COT was to eventually cut costs to teams and to also bring the competition closer, and ultimately – or allegedly – have better racing.
Part of that equation has worked.
Robby Gordon, a driver-owner, said earlier this week his team has run the same five cars for the last three months.
“We continue to build new inventory, build new cars, which are only better,” Gordon said, responding to a reporter’s question about next season’s budget. “And we do that throughout the season. So I can’t see any reason why next year would be a lot more money than it was this year to operate one of our cars.”
For an independent team, that’s a big deal. Huge. On that level the car has worked.
But, it’s also failed, too.
Gaston Gazette writer Monte Dutton wrote earlier this week that there’s a big difference between equal cars and equivalent cars. With equivalent cars, teams can adjust and improve the racing.
“By demanding that so much be all alike, NASCAR officials have diminished the quality of the racing,” wrote Dutton. “Generic cars have created generic races.”
Indeed, Sunday’s race at Pocono was far from a thrill-fest, and there have been plenty of complaints from fans this season that the COT has led to some boring races, no matter how many green-flag passes NASCAR has recorded.
Philis says he really misses the days when the cars on the track really looked like the cars on the road.
Yet, what troubles Philis is how rare it is for anyone outside of the big multi-car teams to win, and he fears that down the road there will be no one left but the big teams owning all the cars.
In fairness to NASCAR, it’s been a long time since a single-car team made a dent in the sport.
Whether the COT ultimately changes the ratio of multi-car teams to single-car teams won’t be known for some time.
“That’s not what I call fair and competitive racing,” Philis said of the current state of NASCAR. “Give all drivers the same range of equipment. Either make it affordable and available to all teams or restrict them from the big teams. Make it fair.”
Stock car racing is a long way from having that kind of level playing field, and probably never will. That worked with the IROC series on a limited basis, and that series is now dead.

And would we really want that in NASCAR?