NASCAR History

  1959: Rex White starts from the pole and posts a wire-to-wire victory at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C. Glen Wood finished second, 10 […]

  1978: Pole-starter David Pearson passes Darrell Waltrip on the final lap to win the Champion Spark Plug 400 at Michigan International Speedway, clinching the […]

  1956: Joe Weatherly scores a flag-to-flag victory to win the only race for the NASCAR Convertible Series at Heidelberg Raceway just outside of Pittsburgh. […]

  1966: David Pearson steers a Cotton Owens-prepared Dodge to win the Sandlapper 200 at Columbia (S.C.) Speedway. Pearson, a five-time winner over his career […]

  1980: Cale Yarborough takes command 12 laps from the end and roars to victory in the Champion Spark Plug 400 at Michigan International Speedway. […]

  1964: Richard Petty scores a dominant victory in the Mountaineer 500 at West Virginia International Speedway in Huntington, leading 396 of 500 laps. Petty […]

  1971: Bobby Allison takes the lead from Richard Petty with three laps left to win the Yankee 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Allison swapped […]

  1955: Pole-starter Fonty Flock drives a Carl Kiekhaefer-owned Chrysler to victory in the Mid-South 250 at Memphis-Arkansas Speedway in LeHi, Ark., registering the 17th […]

  1961: Junior Johnson posts a wire-to-wire victory at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway in the Western North Carolina 500, an event stopped after 258 of a scheduled […]

1956: Tim Flock keeps a steady pace to score the last of his 39 career victories in the only race for NASCAR’s top series at […]