LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- As Scott Atherton put it, Brian France's presence at the 2013 NASCAR Motorsports Marketing Forum at the Aria was lost on no one. France, NASCAR chairman and CEO, kicked off the session on the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship by affirming his unqualified support of the racing series formed by the merger of the GRAND-AM Road Racing and American Le Mans Series. "A couple of years ago, we looked at sports car racing, which we had our own position in with Grand-American," France said. "It was very obvious that two separate sports car racing series would never achieve what we needed to. More...