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Bristol Motor Speedway Dover Motor Speedway. This is a list of tracks which have hosted a NASCAR race from 1948 to present. Various forms of race track have been used throughout the history of NASCAR, including purpose-built race tracks such as Daytona International Speedway and temporary tracks such as the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
The track held at least one Cup race each year from 1958 to 1984. A capacity crowd of 13,998 watched Joe Weatherly win the first NASCAR race on August 10, 1958. Geoff Bodine beat Darrell Waltrip for his second career win in the last Cup Series event at the track, the second win for the upstart All Star Racing, now known as Hendrick Motorsports.
One of Richard Petty's 4 wins at the track came when he was very ill and was questionable to race. The 1970 Georgia 500 also occurred at the track. Petty started on the pole position and won the 274-mile (441 km) race. [1] The final NASCAR race was held on November 7, 1971. Bobby Allison drove from the pole to win the 274-mile (441 km) race. [1]
In its earliest days, Fonty Flock and his brothers Bob and Tim dominated the track. Louise Smith became NASCAR's first female driver at the track in the fall of 1949. [4] The Occoneechee Speedway hosted stock car racing legends such as Fireball Roberts, Richard Petty, Ned Jarrett and Junior Johnson. It was a crown jewel in NASCAR for most of ...
Martinsville Speedway is a stock car racing short track in Ridgeway, Virginia, just south of Martinsville.The track was also one of the first paved oval tracks in stock car racing, being built in 1947 by partners H. Clay Earles, Henry Lawrence, and Sam Rice, nearly a year before NASCAR was officially formed. [2]
North Wilkesboro Speedway became one of the original NASCAR racetracks after it hosted the inaugural Strictly Stock Series. The speedway closed in 1996 but returned to host NASCAR last year ...
The Asheville–Weaverville Speedway near Weaverville, North Carolina a site for NASCAR races in both the Grand National and Winston Cup Series eras. From 1951 to 1969, races at the track were won by drivers like Richard Petty, Bob Flock, Fonty Flock, Lee Petty, Rex White, and Fireball Roberts.
Wallace last entered a national-level NASCAR race in 2020, but his last race on an oval came all the way back in 2015. His most recent win in a top three NASCAR series came in the Truck Series at ...