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.
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Jim Roper won the first Nascar race on June 19, 1949. It was called the Nascar Strictly Stock Series back then and the race was held at Charlotte Speedway.