There hasn't always been a Champions Week in NASCAR, or even an awards banquet for that matter. The leather jackets may remain, but everything else has changed about how NASCAR honors the champion of its premier division. Those "victory dinners" at various Daytona Beach hotels gave way to formal events first in New York and now in Las Vegas, each of them grander than the next. Indeed, Champions Week has come a long way from places such as Daytona's Princess Issena Hotel, not to mention much earlier days when it could be a handful of races into the next season before the winner of the previous year was honored. More...