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about a decade to move from spectator to race promoter on the highway/beach course to founder of a major sanctioning body.
His efforts led to December 14, 1947. On that day, three dozen like-minded racers met in the Streamline Hotel on South Atlantic Avenue in Daytona Beach, Fla., to hear France’s vision. Weary of northern winters, the Frances were headed from Washington to Miami when their car broke down. They lingered in Daytona Beach long enough for France to open a gas station/garage on Main Street, near the beach. A middling gearhead, he became interested and later involved in the area’s famous “speed trials” on the hard-packed sand from Ormond-by-the-Sea southward to Daytona Beach Shores.In a roundabout way, those speed trials led to the birth of major-league stock car racing in America.
His efforts led to December 14, 1947. On that day, three dozen like-minded racers met in the Streamline Hotel on South Atlantic Avenue to hear France’s vision to unify stock car racing under one banner.Two months later, on February 21, 1948, he was in charge as the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing was incorporated.
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