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Darlington Raceway's logo. Harold Brasington was a retired racer in 1948, who had gotten to know Bill France Sr. while competing against France at the Daytona Beach Road Course and other dirt tracks in the Southeast and Midwestern United States; he quit racing in the late 1940s to concentrate on farming and his construction business. [2]
Curtis Smith (drag racer) Curtis Smith is a second-generation American semi-retired drag racer. He is currently the All Time Winningest IHRA Stock Eliminator driver and the 1996 IHRA Stock World Champion. [1] Smith was the first IHRA Sportsman driver to win 3 national events in a row in 1985. Smith started his national racing career in the ...
Ollen Bruton Smith (March 3, 1927 – June 22, 2022) was an American motorsports executive and businessman. He was best known as the owner of two public companies, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) and Sonic Automotive. Smith held the positions of vice president and general manager of the Charlotte Motor Speedway and later was the chief ...
Asphalt with concrete in turns. Length. 0.526 miles (0.847 km) Banking. 12 degrees. Straights – 2 degrees. Rockingham Speedway, formerly North Carolina Motor Speedway and later North Carolina Speedway[4] is a racetrack located near Rockingham, North Carolina. It is also known as The Rock and hosts NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Craftsman ...
The record for fastest fifth-generation GR Supra is 7.908 seconds at 283 km/h (176 mph) in the quarter mile, set by Mikey Botti in May 2023 at Darlington Dragway. The modified B58 engine is tuned to approximately 969 kW (1,300 bhp). [21] [22]
Fight at drive-thru ends with 8-year-old, two others shot, North Carolina cops say. Makiya Seminera. December 4, 2023 at 11:42 AM. Getty Images/iStockphoto.
The U.S. government's auto safety regulator has ended a 2 1/2-year investigation into Ford engine failures after the company replaced engines or extended the warranty on some vehicles. The ...
Myrtle Beach Speedway (originally named Rambi Raceway), was a short track located on U.S. Route 501 near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The track was built in 1958. The speedway was a semi-banked asphalt oval track that spans 0.538 miles (0.866 km).The NASCAR Cup Series competed at the Speedway from 1958 through 1965.