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April 11, 1966 - Bowman Gray Stadium
On April 9, 1966 - Easter Saturday - NASCAR's Grand National drivers raced at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina. David Pearson dominated the second half of the race and won by a full lap...
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April 11, 1976: Darlington's Rebel 500
The eighth race of NASCAR's 1976 Winston Cup Series schedule was the Rebel 500 at Darlington Raceway.Though the season was seven races old, the story to that point was the Wood Brothers team with David...
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April 12, 1964 - Hillsborough's Joe Weatherly Memorial
NASCAR's Grand National drivers rolled into Hillsborough, NC in the spring of 1964 for the Joe Weatherly Memorial race at Orange Speedway.In 1964, the town of Hillsborough was spelled Hillsboro. And...
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April 13, 1980 - Darlington's Rebel 500
Following a pit stop during the 1979 CRC Chemicals Rebel 500, the wheels fell off David Pearson's car. Because of a miscommunication, Pearson thought the Wood Brothers planned to change two tires...
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April 15, 1973 - Darlington's Rebel 400
The eighth race of the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup season was the Rebel 500 at South Carolina's Darlington Raceway. What better way than to race on tax day! (Cue the tax accountants: Technically, the...
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April 18, 1981 - Another Sterling Season Begins
Nashville's fairgounds speedway - renamed Nashville International Raceway in the late 1970s - opened its 1981 season with a program highlighted by the CRC Chemicals 200 Grand American division...
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April 21, 1968 - Wilkesboro's Gwyn Staley 400
NASCAR's Grand National teams rolled into the mountains of western North Carolina in the spring of '68 for the Gwyn Staley Memorial 400-lap race at North Wilkesboro Speedway. The race was the 11th of...
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April 24, 1971 - Hambone to the Throne
Nashville's Fairground Speedways opened its 1971 season in April. The season was the second one on the new high banked version of the track - and the first full one as the track wasn't ready for use in...
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April 29, 1973 - Martinsville's Virginia 500
The ninth race of NASCAR's 1973 Winston Cup season was the Virginia 500 at the iconic Martinsville Speedway.Source: Motor Racing Programme Covers Two weeks earlier, David Pearson won the Rebel 400 at...
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May 5, 1968 - Weaverville's Fireball 300
The 14th race of NASCAR's 1968 Grand National season was the Fireball 300 at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway. NASCAR began racing at the North Carolina half-mile in 1951, and the spring race generally...
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May 6, 1973 - Talladega's Winston 500
On Sunday, May 6th, NASCAR's Winston Cup Series rolled into Talladega for the Winston 500 as the 10th race of the 1973 season. How Cinco de Mayo may have been celebrated on Saturday - if at all - in...
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May 5, 1974 - Talladega's Winston 500
NASCAR's Cup teams were back in Talladega for the 10th race of the 1974 season. Though the race was billed as the Winston 500, it was in reality a 450-mile race. NASCAR agreed to cut its races by 10...
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May 11, 1968 - Darlington's Rebel 300
As NASCAR's Grand National division neared its one-third mark of the 1968 season, the teams arrived for the Rebel 400 at Darlington Raceway on a Saturday afternoon. Because of South Carolina's blue...
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May 9, 1970 - Darlington's Rebel 400
NASCAR began the second quarter of its 1970 Grand National division season with the Rebel 400 at Darlington on Saturday, May 9th. Because of state blue laws, Darlington's races were held for years on...
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May 17, 1968 - Beltsville 300
NASCAR's Grand National fleet rolled in to the small state of Maryland on a Friday night in mid-May 1968. The teams hastily prepared for a one-day show to qualify and race 300 laps around the paved,...
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May 17, 1969 - Langley's Tidewater 375
NASCAR's Grand National drivers battled in mid-May 1969 for the third time in a week and on back-to-back nights. After racing at Beltsville Speedway in Maryland on Friday night, the teams made the...
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May 18, 1968 - Langley's Tidewater 250
NASCAR completed the first third of its 49-race, 1968 Grand National division schedule with the Tidewater 250 at Langley Field Speedway in Hampton, Virginia. Track promoter Henry Klich noted how NASCAR...
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May 19, 1975 - Dover's Mason-Dixon 500
The 12th race of the 30-race, NASCAR Winston Cup Series 1975 schedule was the Mason-Dixon 500 slated for Sunday, May 18th at Dover Downs International Speedway.Coming off his fifth championship season...
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May 21, 1978 - Dover's Mason-Dixon 500
The middle third of the 30-race, NASCAR Winston Cup Series 1978 schedule opened with the Mason-Dixon 500 at Dover.Source: Motor Racing Programme CoversBuddy Baker captured the pole in M.C. Anderson's...
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May 28, 1961 - Charlotte's World 600
When the famed Daytona International Speedway opened in 1959, a smaller track sat right off to its edge - the Daytona Beach Kennel Club. The track was a greyhound racing facility owned by John Masoni....
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May 29, 1966 - Dog Track Speedway
In the early part of the twentieth century, greyhound dog racing was all the rage in southeastern Virginia - especially for the Navy fellers in nearby Norfolk when they were in port with extra coin in...
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June 2, 1968 - Middle Georgia's Macon 300
After racing on a Friday night at New Asheville Speedway in North Carolina, NASCAR's Grand National teams rolled into Byron, Georgia's Middle Georgia Raceway for the Macon 300 on a Sunday...
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June 3, 1966 - New Asheville's Asheville 300
With the assistance of relief driver, Richard Petty, Marvin Panch won the World 600 in a Petty Plymouth at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 22, 1966. A week later, the Petty team and the rest of...
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June 3, 1973 - Dover's Mason-Dixon 500
As NASCAR's shortest season since 1950 near the halfway point, the Winston Cup circuit headed to Dover, Delaware for the 1973 Mason-Dixon 500.Source: Motor Racing Progamme CoversFrom mid-April through...
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June 9, 1966 - Maryville's East Tennessee 200
NASCAR's 49-race 1966 Grand National season hit its halfway point with the East Tennessee 200 on the half-mile Smoky Mountain Raceway. The track was located in Maryville, TN - just south of Knoxville....
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