If Bill France’s latest in-house move – promoting his brother, Jim, to take over his role as CEO of the family’s International Speedway Corp. and promoting his daughter, Lesa, to president of ISC – is part of a broad plan to prepare this sport for his eventual retirement, then the next big question is what Bill France might have planned for the NASCAR half of the operation. Bill France is chairman of a five-man board of directors of NASCAR, including George Pyne, the chief operating officer; Mike Helton, the president, and Lesa and Brian France. Pyne has been taking an increasingly important role within the organization over the past two years. ( Winston Salem Journal )(2-14-2003)
