The France family is known as the "first family" of

NASCAR The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. The privately owned company was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1948, and hi ...

racing. NASCAR was founded by

Bill France, Sr. William Henry Getty France (September 26, 1909 – June 7, 1992), also known as Bill France Sr. or Big Bill, was an American businessman and racing driver. He is best known for founding and managing NASCAR, a sanctioning body of US-based stock ca ...

in 1948 and to this day France family members own and operate NASCAR.

Jim France James Carl France (born October 24, 1944) is an American motorsports executive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO), the chairman, and executive vice president of NASCAR, the former chief executive officer (CEO) of International Speedway Cor ...

, one of the sons of the founder, is the current chairman and CEO after

Brian France Brian Zachary France (born August 2, 1962) is an American businessman and the former CEO and chairman of NASCAR. He served in the post from 2003 to 2018, following his grandfather (and NASCAR co-founder) Bill France Sr. and father Bill Jr., in t ...

's arrest on August 6, 2018 and subsequent leave from the position. The France family also controls

International Speedway Corporation International Speedway Corporation (ISC) was a corporation whose primary business is the ownership and management of motorsports race tracks. ISC was founded by NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. in 1953 for the construction of Daytona International ...

and

International Motor Sports Association The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) is a North American sports car racing sanctioning body based in Daytona Beach, Florida under the jurisdiction of the ACCUS arm of the FIA. It was started by John Bishop, a former executive direc ...

Notable family members

William Henry France William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...

(1874-1949) - Father of co-founder of NASCAR *

James Edmund France James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

(1906-1920) - Brother of co-founder of NASCAR * Bill France Sr. (1909-1992) – Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of NASCAR * Bill France Jr. (1933-2007) – CEO of NASCAR; Chairman of ISC *

(1944-) – CEO and Chairman of NASCAR, Executive vice president of NASCAR; CEO and Chairman of ISC *

Lesa Kennedy Lesa France Kennedy, (born Lesa Dawn France on May 24, 1961) is an American businesswoman and Executive Vice Chair of NASCAR. Education and career Kennedy received a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Psychology from Duke University in 1983. Kenne ...

(1961-) – Executive Vice President of NASCAR; President and CEO of ISC *

(1962-) – Former CEO and Chairman of NASCAR *

JC France Jamie C. "J. C." France (born November 1, 1965) is a former American auto racing driver. He last competed in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series with the No. 59 Brumos Porsche- Riley Daytona Prototype with João Barbosa. He is the son of Jim F ...

(1965-) * Ben Kennedy (1991-) - Race Car Driver, General Manager of the

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, and is the only series in NASCAR to race production pickup truck based stock cars. The series is one of th ...

Steven France Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; ...

(1973-) *

Vincent France Vincent ( la, Vincentius) is a male given name derived from the Roman name Vincentius, which is derived from the Latin word (''to conquer''). People with the given name Artists *Vincent Apap (1909–2003), Maltese sculptor *Vincent van Gogh ...

(2001-)

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