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Things came jointly quickly. The first NASCAR-sanctioned race was held on Daytona's beach course Feb. 15, 1948, just two months after the managerial meeting. Red Byron, a stock car legend from Atlanta, won the event in his Ford Modified. Six days later on Feb. 21, 1948, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing was included. It was 1949, though, when what is now the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, the leader racing division in America, was born. The first occasion featured a $5,000 purse and was held on a two-mile round course in southern Florida followed by a 150 mile race at the three-quarter-mile Charlotte Speedway in which Jim Roper of Great Bend, Kan., was the winner. A marvelous crowd attended the event to see automobile with the look of a street car race door-to-door. The new racing series was off and organization. And it was an instant success. Eight events in all were held in 1949. Plans right away were underway bring bigger, faster races to bigger, hungrier crowds and less than a year later (1950), the country's first tarmac superspeedway, Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, open its doors for the new division. The initial decade for the NASCAR Winston Cup Series was one of marvelous growth. Characters became heroes and fans hung on each turn of the wheel, watching drivers push cars at speeds fans wished they lawfully could run themselves. Names like Lee Petty, Fireball Roberts, Buck Baker, Herb Thomas, the Flock brothers, Bill Rexford, Paul Goldsmith and others became as well-known to contest fans as Willie, Mickey and the Duke were to baseball fans.