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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the Nascar television ratings and fan interest has been decreasing for years, and as far as I’m to sell out races until it was cut to one date in while North Wilkesboro had no infrastructure and little Jayski’s Silly Season Site.

An event few motor sports fans ever thought would occur, with longtime rivals from IndyCar racing and NASCAR stock cars competing on the same weekend and at the same facility, finally arrives this weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In February , less than two weeks before the Daytona , Marshall Teague was killed while attempting a closed course speed record in excess of m.

Two months later, George Amick was killed in an Indy-type car event, also at Daytona. The deaths convinced Bill France Sr. Through the years, the two types of racing seemed to be in existential competition with each other for fans, broadcast contracts, sponsors, race dates and venues. Knockout scheduling, with races at conflicting dates and times, has helped make drivers from one series feel unwelcome or unable to compete in the other.

Yet this once-unthinkable marriage is about to happen after a series of steps, each one presenting a seemingly insurmountable hurdle. There were also other promoters whose input had to be taken into consideration, and, of course, there were sponsor conflicts to resolve. And we had to consider the broadcast contracts.

Since a splashy inaugural race in , the Brickyard had become stale, and its crowds, which were once estimated at ,, rivaling those for the Indianapolis , had dwindled disconcertingly.