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1961: Cotton Owens takes the lead with four laps left and heads off NASCAR Hall of Famer Ned Jarrett to win a 200-lap main event […]

  1953: Lee Petty prevails in the first race in NASCAR’s top series at Richmond (Va.) Fairgrounds’ half-mile dirt track. Dick Rathman finishes second in […]

  1992: Tommy Houston starts last in the 30-car field and overcomes a record 26 cautions to win the Mountain Dew 300 at Hickory (N.C.) […]

1966: Jim Paschal completes a dominant performance at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway, winning the Gwyn Staley 400 by six laps over runner-up G.C. Spencer. Paschal, […]

1918: Stock-car racing pioneer Bob Flock is born. The oldest of the racing Flock brothers — with Fonty and Tim — started on the pole […]