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The Grand Slam in NASCAR is the achievement of winning all of NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series majors in a calendar year. ==The Grand Slam== The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company announced at the Waldorf Astoria New York during the annual end of season prizegiving ceremony in 1984 two new events that would define NASCAR for years to come. One of them was the winner-only race, which has been known since 2008 as the Sprint All-Star Race. The other that they were formally elevating the sport's four majors into a formal Grand Slam with a cash bonus, the ''Winston Million''. The events were as follows: *The Daytona 500 (known as the richest race on the circuit, as it has the largest winner's purse – held in February at Daytona International Speedway) *The Winston 500 (known as the fastest race on the circuit – held in late April or early May at Talladega Superspeedway) *The Coca-Cola 600 (known as the longest race on the circuit – held Memorial Day weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway) *The Southern 500 (known as the oldest super speedway race on the circuit – held at Darlington Raceway on Labor Day weekend from 1950-2003, in November in 2004, omitted for ten years by the Ferko lawsuit, returned to Labor Day weekend in 2015.) No driver had ever won all four races in the same season. Twice prior to 1985, a driver claimed a "Small Slam" (three out of the four races): Lee Roy Yarbrough (1969, although it was considered a "Triple Crown," as the Talladega event was not established until 1970) and David Pearson (1976). Starting in 1985, R.J. Reynolds, and brand sponsor Winston, began offering a $1 million bonus to any driver that won a Small Slam in the same season. If there was no million-dollar winner, a $100,000 consolation bonus would be given to the first driver to win two of the races. If a driver went into the Coca-Cola 600 or the Southern 500 with a chance to win the million, the race was advertised as "The Winston Million Running of the Coca-Cola 600" or "The Winston Million Running of the (Heinz / Mountain Dew) Southern 500." From 1994 to 1996, the program was advertised as the "Winston Select Million," as R.J. Reynolds chose to promote Winston's "Select" brand of cigarettes in NASCAR. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grand Slam (NASCAR)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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