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The first auto racing at Bowman Gray was a type of midget car racing on the dirt quarter mile track from 1939 through 1949. The track was paved in 1947, after a promoter got the City of Winston-Salem to agree to pay to have the track paved in exchange for restitution of payments through a percentage of future income from races.
FILE - Race fans react as driver Burt Myers gets caught up between turns one and two during the 100-lap Modified race on Saturday, July 22, 2023, at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C ...
FILE - Flagmen Matt Garrison, left, and Randy Smith prepare for their next race, Saturday, June 15, 2024 at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal via AP, File)
If you’re looking for a historic NASCAR track, look no further than Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The popular quarter-mile bullring is NASCAR’s longest running weekly ...
Bowman Gray Stadium: City of Winston-Salem 0.25-mile (0.40 km) No banking Paved Oval Winston-Salem, North Carolina: 17,000 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium: None None Bristol Motor Speedway: Speedway Motorsports: 0.533-mile (0.858 km) Turns: 26°–30° Straights: 6°–10° Concrete Oval: Bristol, Tennessee: 153,000 Food City 500 Bass Pro ...
Winston-Salem State has been a continuous member of the CIAA since 1945, with the exception of a three-year hiatus between 2007 and 2010 when they competed provisionally at the Division I level with the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Financial difficulties, however, prevented the Rams from beginning full membership and they returned to the ...
"We don’t make a lot of money to do this at this level, so if you tear my race car up, I’m gonna come and see you.” The first event at Bowman Gray was a football game in 1938 between Wake Forest and Duke, and the first motorsports race was a midget car race in 1939 when the track was a dirt oval. The first NASCAR-sanctioned race was in 1949.
NASCAR is back, old-school style, as 2025 opens with a return to the “Mecca of Madhouse” for Sunday night’s preseason Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium. The Winston-Salem quarter-mile notorious for its rough-and-tumble racing style and numerous fights will host its first Cup Series event since 1971 with the non-points exhibition race.