In the lower levels of NASCAR, a pickup-truck racing series sponsored by Craftsman tools in 1995. The series has been hugely successful, especially in providing appeal back to the conservative American base. In the new millennium, the now-titled Busch Series expanded internationally with races in Mexico in 2005 and one in Canada in 2007. In addition to all its regular local racing series, NASCAR also began running national series in Canada and Mexico in 2007.
==Racing Today==Currently, the Nextel Cup runs a thirty-six race season, with 43 cars participating in each. Most of the races are run on mid length oval tracks, but there also two races on road courses and two "restrictor place races" at tracks where the cars need to wear restrictor plates on their engines to slow down their high speeds, with one of these tracks being Daytona. Top racers currently include the previously mentioned Jeff Gordon, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., along with Gordon's teammate, Jimmie Johnson, and former Indy racer Tony Stewart.The 2007 season saw the debut of the Nextel Cup series' first foreign carmaker in many years with Toyota, who had previously run the Craftsman Truck Series for a few years. Additionally, NASCAR also began running the "Car of Tomorrow" that it had developed, with the new model expected to be used for all races in 2008. ==Culture==
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