Needing money in order to support the newly constructed Charlotte Motor Speedway, Turner and his business partner Bruton Smith turned to the Teamsters Union to organize a union for them, the Federation of Professional Athletes, in 1961 [REF].
Turner continued to race under other sanctioning bodies, including the Midwest Association for Race Cars (MARC),[REF] even promoting his own 100-mile event on the dirt at Lakewood Speedway, Georgia, in October 1961.