Background of NASCAR

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Background of NASCAR
Past

• NASCAR was formed in 1948
• Race cars have been transformed from road-going,
  lumbering true "stock" cars into the sleek,
  technologically advanced machines that we see
  today.
• Now a days Stock car racing is the most-popular
  form of auto racing, especially in North America.
  
• The main stock car racing series is NASCAR's
  Nextel Cup, and among the most famous races in
  the series are the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard
  400.

It all started with races on the famed Daytona
beach/road course in the late 1940's.
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Reason for Choosing topic?

• As a kid I always used to go to Brighton with my
  dad to watch the stock car races. We would always
  place bets on certain cars just for fun to see
  who would win. This then became a tradition on
  Saturday nights. I never really enjoyed watching
  the races to see who would win, it was more to
  beat my familys bets and look at the crazily
  designed cars.
• So learning more about this topic is quite
  interesting, seeing as I never really knew much
  about what I was watching.

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Thesis
A race car driver makes thousands to millions of
dollars by racing their cars around a track. The
amount of times they win races, how many years
they have been racing, their number of starts,
their prevous years points, their age and the
number on their car makes an impact on the amount
of money each driver recieves every year.
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Earnings vs. Wins
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Earnings vs. Years Racing
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Earnings vs. Age
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Earnings vs. Car Number
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Earnings vs. Last Years Points
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Earnings vs. Number of Race Starts
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Conclusion