Sam Nunis

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| birth_name = Floyd Sam Nunis

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Floyd Sam Nunis (December 16, 1903 – February 1, 1980) was a pioneering figure in American stock car racing, being involved in both the American Automobile Association and the National Stock Car Racing Association.{{cite web |url=http://www.taurtoisemotorsports.com/seventies/Nunis.html|title=Tarutoise Motor Sports |year=1980 |accessdate=April 26, 2012}}

Career

Nunis worked with the American Automobile Association to promote stock car racing in the late 1940s, encouraging the group to promote the sport, which they had previously written off, in addition to AAA's traditional sanctioning of IndyCar races.Thompson 2006, p. 209 He primarily promoted races at Lakewood Speedway near Atlanta in Georgia, both under AAA sanction and under the aegis of the National Stock Car Racing Association, which he co-operated along with Weyman Milam between 1946 and 1951.Pierce 2010, p.93Thompson 2006, p. 214

References

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{{cite book|last=Pierce|first=Daniel S.|title=Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France|url=https://archive.org/details/realnascarwhitel0000pier|url-access=registration|year=2010|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill, NC|isbn=978-0807833841}}
{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Neal|title=Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR|url=https://archive.org/details/drivingwithdevil00thom|url-access=registration|year=2006|publisher=Crown Publishers|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4000-8225-4}}

External links

[http://www.taurtoisemotorsports.com/seventies/Nunis.html Sam Nunis Article] at Taurtoise Motor Sports

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Category:Auto racing executives

Category:American motorsport people