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*Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail. ~ Junior Johnson

The Birth of NASCAR

Originally Posted by Kenny Boxster

As for your belief that anything other than street racing is fake,

Real racing is road racing against strangers under natural conditions, with all of its unknowns and unexpected thrills thrown in. No one is fooled, paying some self appointed authority, on an artificial simulated pretend road, to race is just make believe.

* Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. ~ Henry Ford

* A racing car has only one objective: to win motor races. ~ Colin Chapman

When the second car was built there was no authority, no fake road courses, but there was real racing. Real racing came before, and is not dependent on authority or closed circuits to continue. The racecar build objective is to finish in front, not only to finish in front with some parental organizations approval, on a commercial road course.

Originally Posted by Kenny Boxster

There is a reason why racing is sanctioned under authority and practiced on closed circuits.

The reason is so that corporations can sell stock to the public, everybody knows that. They make the entertainers pay to perform so that they can make profits for shareholders. They charge everybody for everything. Question authority!

This may seem controversial. Nothing here is implied to suggest breaking any laws or operating a motor vehicle in an unsafe manner. Nonetheless these activities take place every day, wherever there are drivers and roads. Street Road Racing, where not prohibited, involves three simple rules. The role of leader and pursuer may change many times during contention, there can be only one winner. • The Winner is in front at the finish. • The Leader chooses the course. • The finish is when the Pursuer quits.

Unorganized, unregulated, spontaneous, low speed contests between strangers, are probably the most common of all motor sports confrontations. From the first cross continental races, to the last person you prevented from passing. Your use of a motor vehicle in an attempt to out-gain, out-distance, prevent another vehicle from passing or to arrive someplace first, constitutes a Road Race. You cannot ignore the fact that people bet their lives on winning every day. Victory in all of these cases is covered by these essential elements.

*On the race track, you're a-runnin' to beat someone. Out on the highway, you're a-runnin' for your life. ~ Junior Johnson

Junior Johnson is a retired moonshiner who won 50 NASCAR races before retiring. You may have seen the movie. Johnson says that Stock Car racing was a comedown compared to real racing, running moonshine. Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will.

Originally Posted by Junior Johnson

I had some purty fast race cars, but I never run anything as fast as the fastest cars I had on the highway. The cars we ran on the road, you could modify 'em to the tip. Plus, they were supercharged and turbocharged. We could just do anything we wanted to 'em. There was never a time we could do anything we wanted to the racecars, even the Modifieds. NASCAR wouldn't let 'em run turbochargers or superchargers or anything like that. A supercharger or turbocharger just packs so much power in that motor, it’s unbelievable. And we had no limitations on cubic inches. We could bore and stroke 'em all we wanted. We'd run 500 cubic inches a lot of the time.

*There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. ~ Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain)