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The ___MASK7___ Xfinity Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car ___MASK3___ . It is promoted as ___MASK7___ ' s " minor league " circuit , and is considered a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organization ' s top level circuit , the Monster Energy ___MASK7___ Cup Series . Xfinity Series races are frequently held in the same venue as , and a day prior to , the Monster Energy ___MASK7___ Cup Series race scheduled for that weekend , encouraging fans to attend both events . Monster Energy is an energy drink introduced by Hansen Natural Corp . ( HANS ) in April 2002 . The regular flavor comes in a black can with a green , torn M shaped logo . The company is also known for supporting many extreme sports events such as UFC , BMX , ___MASK90___ , Speedway , skateboarding and snowboarding , as well as eSports . In addition , Monster Energy promotes a number of music bands around the world , like Asking Alexandria , The Word Alive , Maximum the Hormone and Five Finger Death Punch . Monster currently sponsors the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series . Camping World is an American corporation specializing in selling recreational vehicles , recreational vehicle parts , and recreational vehicle service . They also sell supplies for camping . The company has its headquarters in Lincolnshire , Illinois . In October 2016 it became a publicly traded company when it raised $ 251 million in an IPO . Camping World operates 120 retail / service locations in 36 states , and also sells goods through mail order and online . It claims to be the world ' s largest supplier of RV parts and supplies . The company is also the title sponsor for the ___MASK7___ Camping World East Series , ___MASK7___ Camping World West Series , and ___MASK7___ Camping World Truck Series . Recently , it has become the title sponsor of the Camping World Stadium , home of the Orlando City soccer team . Chip Ganassi Racing ( CGR ), also known as Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates , is an automotive racing organization with teams competing in the IndyCar Series , ___MASK7___ , the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship , Global ___MASK81___ Championship , and the FIA World Endurance Championship . It is owned by businessman Chip Ganassi . Felix Sabates co - owns the ___MASK7___ and Rolex Sports Car Series divisions , and Rob Kauffman also has a stake in the ___MASK7___ operations . Mike Hull and Teresa Earnhardt formerly had ownership stakes in the team . They have won 10 Open Wheel titles ( 4 in CART , 6 in IndyCar ) and 5 Grand - Am Road Racing championships . The 2001 Daytona 500 , the 43rd ___MASK94___ of the event , was the first race of the 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series schedule . It was held on February 18 , 2001 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach , Florida , consisting of 200 laps and 500 miles on the 2 . 5 - mile ( 4 km ) asphalt tri - oval . The race was the first ever Winston Cup telecast shown by the Fox network , which had received broadcasting rights along with NBC at the end of the previous season , replacing the two former NASCAR broadcasting channels CBS and ESPN . Bill Elliott won the pole and Michael Waltrip , in his first race in the No . 15 car for Dale Earnhardt , Inc ., won the race . This was the first Winston Cup victory of his career , coming in his 463rd start , the longest wait for a first win . His teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr . finished second and Rusty Wallace finished third . Richard Childress ( born September 21 , 1945 ) is a former ___MASK7___ driver and the current team owner of Richard Childress Racing ( RCR ). As a business entrepreneur , Childress became one of the wealthiest men in North Carolina . A 2003 / 2004 business venture was the opening of a vineyard in the Yadkin Valley AVA , an American Viticultural Area located in North Carolina . Childress was born in Winston - Salem , North Carolina . He is on the Board of Directors to the National Rifle Association . His grandsons Austin Dillon and Ty Dillon are ___MASK7___ competitors . Pickup truck racing is a form of ___MASK3___ which involves modified versions of pickup trucks on racing circuits , mostly oval tracks . Race pickup trucks are mechanically similar to coupé - shaped stock cars , with the main difference being the more boxy shape of the cab , which does not give as good aerodynamics as stock cars . The ___MASK7___ Camping World Truck Series ( formerly the ___MASK7___ SuperTruck Series presented by Craftsman and the ___MASK7___ Craftsman Truck Series ) is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car ___MASK3___ , and is the only series in all of ___MASK7___ to race modified production pickup trucks . The series is one of three national divisions of ___MASK7___ , ranking as the third tier behind the second - tier Xfinity Series and the top level Monster Energy ___MASK7___ Cup Series . Camping World has served as the title sponsor since 2009 ; it replaced Craftsman , who served in that role from 1996 through 2008 . William Henry Getty " Bill " France ( September 26 , 1909  June 7 , 1992 ), also known as Bill France Sr . or Big Bill , was an American racing driver . He is best known for co - founding and managing ___MASK7___ , a sanctioning body of US - based stock car racing . The ___MASK7___ Whelen Modified Tour ( NWMT ) ( previously the ___MASK7___ Winston Modified Tour and ___MASK7___ Featherlite Modified Series from 1985 until 2005 ) is a stock car racing series owned and operated by ___MASK7___ in the Modified Division . The Modified Division is ___MASK7___ ' s oldest division , and is the only open - wheeled division that ___MASK7___ sanctions . ___MASK7___ Whelen Modified Tour events are mainly held in the northeastern United States , but the 2007 and 2008 tours expanded to the Midwest with the addition of a race in Mansfield , Ohio . The tour races primarily on short oval paved tracks , but the NWMT also has made appearances at larger ovals and road courses . From 1984 to 2009 , Dale Earnhardt , Inc . ( DEI ) operated as a ___MASK7___ - related organization in Mooresville , North Carolina , United States . The company was founded by Dale Earnhardt and his wife , Teresa Earnhardt . Earnhardt was a seven - time Winston Cup champion . He died in a crash on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 . Despite his ownership of the DEI racing team , Earnhardt never drove for his team in the Winston Cup ; instead , he raced for his long - time mentor and backer Richard Childress at RCR . In the late - 2000s , DEI suffered critical financial difficulties when Dale Earnhardt , Jr . left and Anheuser - Busch and the United States Army moved their sponsorships to Gillett Evernham Motorsports and the newly formed Stewart - Haas Racing , respectively ; DEI consequently merged with Chip Ganassi Racing in 2009 to form Earnhardt Ganassi Racing . Braun Motorsports , formerly Braun Racing , is a ___MASK7___ racing team based in Mooresville , North Carolina . Best known as one of the top independent Xfinity Series teams from its debut in the series in 2003 , the team also made several starts in the ___MASK67___ Cup Series . The team is owned by Todd Braun , son of Braun Corporation founder Ralph Braun . The team formerly had alliances with Chip Ganassi Racing and Dale Earnhardt , Inc . , and the team ' s operations also included former entries from ppc Racing and Akins Motorsports . The team currently fields the No . 32 Chevrolet Silverado part - time for J . J . Haley . In late 2010 , the team was sold to Texas businessman and Camping World Truck Series team owner Steve Turner , becoming Turner Motorsports and later Turner Scott Motorsports ( TSM ) . TSM ceased operations in 2014 . After fielding entries in the regional K & N Pro Series East in 2014 , the team returned to national competition in 2015 in the Camping World Truck Series with longtime sponsor Great Clips . Stewart - Haas Racing is an American professional ___MASK10___ team that currently competes in the Monster Energy ___MASK7___ Cup Series and the Xfinity Series . The team is co - owned by three - time Monster Energy ___MASK7___ Cup Series champion Tony Stewart and Haas Automation founder Gene Haas . It was founded in 2002 as Haas CNC Racing after Haas , whose company was a sponsor of Hendrick Motorsports , elected to form his own team . In 2009 , Stewart , who had been driving for Joe Gibbs Racing , made a deal with Haas to drive for the team and in return receive a 50 % stake in it . The National Association for Stock Car ___MASK3___ ( ___MASK7___ ) is an American family - owned and operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto - racing sports events . Bill France Sr . founded the company in 1948 and his grandson Brian France became its CEO in 2003 . ___MASK7___ is motorsport ' s preeminent stock - car racing organization . The three largest racing - series sanctioned by this company are the Monster Energy ___MASK7___ Cup Series , the Xfinity Series , and the Camping World Truck Series . The company also oversees ___MASK7___ Local Racing , the Whelen Modified Tour , the Whelen All - American Series , and the ___MASK7___ iRacing . com Series . ___MASK7___ sanctions over 1 , 500 races at over 100 tracks in 39 of the 50 US states as well as in Canada . ___MASK7___ has presented exhibition races at the Suzuka and Motegi circuits in Japan , the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico , and the Calder Park Thunderdome in Australia . The Monster Energy ___MASK7___ Cup Series is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car ___MASK3___ ( ___MASK7___ ). It is named for the current sponsor , Monster Energy , but has been known by other names in the past . The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Series , and from 1950 to 1970 it was known as the Grand National Series . In 1971 , when the series began leasing its naming rights to the R . J . Reynolds Tobacco Company , it was referred to as the Winston Cup Series . A similar deal was made with Nextel in 2003 , and it became the Nextel Cup Series ( 2004  2007 ). ___MASK67___ acquired Nextel in 2005 , and in 2008 the series was renamed the ___MASK67___ Cup Series , which lasted until 2016 . In December 2016 , it was announced that Monster Energy would become the new title sponsor starting in 2017 . Mexico (, modern Nahuatl ), officially the United Mexican States , is a federal republic in the southern half of North America . It is bordered to the north by the United States ; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean ; to the southeast by Guatemala , Belize , and the Caribbean Sea ; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico . Covering almost two million square kilometers ( over 760 , 000 sq mi ), Mexico is the sixth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent nation in the world . With an estimated population of over 120 million , it is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous ___MASK14___ - speaking country in the world while being the second most populous country in Latin America . Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and a federal district that is also its capital and most populous city . Other metropolises include Guadalajara , Monterrey , Puebla , Toluca , Tijuana and León . ppc Racing was a Championship - winning ___MASK7___ racing team based in Mooresville , North Carolina . The team was owned by Greg Pollex . ppc Racing came about from a merger of Pollex ' s Busch Series team with a car owned by Steve DeSouza and Ted Campbell in 1999 . The team shut down in 2007 due to a lack of funding . Pollex later joined CJM Racing as a shop foreman before departing late in the season . ___MASK10___ is a form of automobile racing found mainly and most prominently in the United States and Canada , with Australia and New Zealand also having forms of stock car ___MASK3___ . Traditionally , races are run on oval tracks measuring approximately . The world ' s largest governing body for ___MASK10___ is the American ___MASK7___ , and its Monster Energy ___MASK7___ Cup Series is the premier top level series of professional ___MASK10___ . Top level races typically range between in length . CJM Racing was a ___MASK7___ Nationwide Series team . It fielded the No . 11 car for a variety of drivers . Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr . ( April 29 , 1951  February 18 , 2001 ), known professionally as Dale Earnhardt , was an American professional ___MASK10___ driver and team owner , best known for his involvement in ___MASK10___ for ___MASK7___ . The third child of racing driver Ralph Earnhardt and first of two to Martha Coleman , he began his career in 1975 in the World 600 as part of the Winston Cup Series . Grand - Am Road Racing or Grand - Am was an ___MASK3___ sanctioning body that was established in 1999 to organize road racing competitions in North America . Its primary focus was the Rolex Sports Car Series , an endurance racing championship series . It sanctioned five ___MASK3___ series . The series announced in September 2012 that it would be merging with the American Le Mans Series , which had been Grand - Am ' s main US competitor since its inception . The two series fully merged in 2014 under the banner of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship , with the International Motor Sports Association . Akins Motorsports , formerly Akins - Sutton Motorsports was a ___MASK7___ team based in Mooresville , North Carolina , which is near Charlotte . The team was formed in 1992 by Brad Akins , owner of several car dealerships in Georgia and team pit crew member , and Bob Sutton who served as the team ' s financial manager . At the time the team was sold to Braun Racing in 2006 , it was owned by longtime team general manager Doug Stringer . The team was known for its Great Clips - sponsored # 38 team in the Busch Series ( now the Xfinity Series ), which was later fielded by Braun Racing and Turner Scott Motorsports . The Daytona 500 is a Monster Energy ___MASK7___ Cup Series motor race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach , Florida . It is the first of two Cup races held every year at Daytona , the second being the Coke Zero 400 . It is one of the four restrictor plate races on the Cup schedule . The inaugural Daytona 500 was held in 1959 coinciding with the opening of the speedway and since 1982 , it has been the season - opening race of the Cup series . Floyd " Chip " Ganassi Jr . ( born May 24 , 1958 ) is a former American racing driver , current team owner and member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America . He has been involved with the North American ___MASK3___ scene for over 30 years and is considered one of the most successful as well as innovative owners ever . He is the only team owner in history to have won the Indianapolis 500 , the Daytona 500 , the Brickyard 400 , the Rolex 24 at Daytona , the 12 Hours of Sebring and most recently the 24 Hours of Le Mans - six of the seven biggest races in the world . Brian France ( born August 2 , 1962 ) is an American businessman who is the current CEO and Chairman of ___MASK7___ , taking over the position from his father , Bill France Jr ., in 2003 . " Time Magazine " named him one of the " 100 Most Influential of the Century " in 2006 and he was named one of the five most powerful sports executives by " The Sporting News " in 2005 . iRacing is a subscription based racing simulation released by iRacing . com ___MASK38___ Simulations in 2008 . Official races , special events , league races , and practice sessions are all hosted on the service ' s servers . The service simulates realistic cars , tracks , and racing events , and enforcing rules of conduct modeled on real ___MASK3___ events .