RICHARD PETTY!! Either him or Cale Yarborough.
The first Nascar trophy was awarded to Red Byron. He won the 1949 Nascar Strictly Stock Series championship.
The first known telecast of Nascar was in 1960 and it was the Daytona 500 race.
Bill France Sr and a group of local track owners first conceived NASCAR in 1948, but the first NASCAR race wasn't until 1949.
The first NASCAR rookie of the year was Blackie Pitt.
Yes, he was. Ralph Earnhardt's first Nascar race was on November 11, 1956.
I'm not sure, since this question can not be answered, since the first Nascar race featured multiple drivers. Red Byron was Nascar's first champion. Some people may say Lloyd Seay was the first Nascar driver, but he died two years earlier, before the birth of Nascar at Daytona.
February 15, 1948 was the first organized race sanctioned by Nascar - held right on Datona Beach, The first actual nascar race was held in April of that year. Later the Nascar corp. was created in Daytona Florida.
NASCAR driver Bill Elliott's first wife was Martha Elliott.
Bill France Sr. and Junior Johnson started Nascar .
NASCAR means National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
Roger Penske's Nascar debut was in 1972.
He won three NASCAR championships and the first Daytona 500.