
William C. France, NASCAR's vice chairman and International Speedway Corporation's chairman who died at age 74, was as much "the man" for his time in NASCAR as his father, William H.G. France, was for his era 25 years before. And in carrying forward and nurturing the sport that he, too, had grown up within and around the younger France created a worldwide stage that younger stars would dominate in their respective primes. More
