NASCAR was founded on moonshine-runners who outran law enforcement officials. The post NASCAR Faces Backlash Over ...

Moonshine runners began to greatly improve their vehicles to evade the police. Those modifications led to the NASCAR's birth in 1948. "You had to have fast cars to haul your whiskey to the people ...

The automobile had made its way down into those rural communities and became the de facto mode of transport for bootleggers ...

When you’re born in it, it never leaves you,” said Thompson, a West Michigan singer-songwriter, guitarist and frontman for Lynn and The Moonshine Runners. When he decided to take a stab at ...

Was North Wilkesboro Speedway home base for some moonshine runners after all? Speedway Motorsports Inc. officials have unearthed the possibility. During last week’s grandstand cleaning and ...

If true, this would confirm the decades-long suspicions of area locals. NASCAR’s roots involve moonshine runners during Prohibition, as they needed to modify their cars to outrun Johnny Law ...

Top stars clash in the 2025 NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro, with Brad Keselowski on pole and favorites like Larson, ...

When America was fighting alcohol consumption with radical bans, bootleggers shoved moonshine liquor in fast ... a bunch of former "runners" (illegal alcohol transporters) got together to form ...