Welcome Home Big Bill. Your Final Resting Place Awaits

Bill France Sr. probably never imagined in his wildest dreams that the sport he started 60 years ago would grow into the multi-million dollar business that it is today. Or that someday a multi-million dollar facility would be built to house the stars of his fledgling organization. It all started back in 1947 at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida when Bill France Sr., about a dozen racers, and promoters gathered in Daytona Beach to organize a much disorganized sport. A sport that was made up of hot rodding country folks, along with some of the most notorious moonshiners from that era. Most of them were in it for bragging rights, but once they found out there was money to be made legally, all of a sudden every crooked businessman ...

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