USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Stock car racing in the United States has its origins in bootlegging during Prohibition, when drivers ran bootleg whiskey made primarily in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -It wasn’t gasoline-but moonshine-that fueled the growth of stock car racing in Appalachia and led to the rise of NASCAR. It wasn’t gasoline-but moonshine-that fueled the growth of stock car racing in Appalachia and led to the rise of NASCAR.

Detailed explanation-3: -National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.

Detailed explanation-4: -The answer is simple: In the first decade or so of NASCAR racing, the transportation of illegal liquor in the South was huge business, and a lot of the sport’s early stars drove, owned or built moonshine cars. Johnson was the best-known bootlegger in Wilkes County, North Carolina, a hotbed of the moonshine industry.

Detailed explanation-5: -Junior Johnson, courtesy of Flickr (creative commons). Junior Johnson, former bootlegger, moonshiner, and NASCAR driver was known to use this move. Junior Johnson was just 14 when he began running his father’s moonshine-before even he had his license: “I didn’t need one, ‘cuz I wasn’t gonna stop!”