Former NASCAR chairman Bill France Jr. was hospitalized Wednesday night at Halifax Medical Center, where he was under the care of his personal physicians. His condition was not known, and NASCAR officials confirmed only that the 73-year-old France had been admitted. He's been in declining health for much of the past decade. France suffered a mild heart attack in 1997 while in Japan for a NASCAR exhibition race, and was diagnosed with cancer in 1999. He has never revealed what type of cancer he had. Although his cancer was in remission, he handed off day-to-day duties of running NASCAR to his son, Brian, in late 2003.

Wishing him well!, I'm afraid his time is short nowadays. Nascar has taken alot of hits over the last couple of years.