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Start your engines! NASCAR season is underway. Check out these facts, records and history of NASCAR racing.

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Stock car racing began in the southern the best driver and who had the fastest car. The sport of stock car racing was born!

The first official NASCAR race was held at the Charlotte, North Carolina fairgrounds in 1949. Jim Roper won the first race, driving a 1949 Lincoln.

The first Daytona 500 - NASCAR's biggest race - was held in 1959. Lee Petty won the race by edging out Johnny Beauchamp in a photo finish.

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Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt each won the NASCAR Championships a record seven times.

Bill Elliot holds the record for fastest lap speed in a stock car. He raced around the Talledega International Speedway at 212.809 miles per hour!

The first NASCAR driver to complete the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day was Tony Stewart, who finished both races in 1999.

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The winner of each NASCAR race receives 180 points in the driver standings. Drivers receive five extra points for leading a lap and an additional five points for leading the most laps.

The temperature inside a stock car can reach 140 degrees