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August 21, 1976 - Friends, Rivals, Wrecked, Resilient
Week to week, the storyline of the 1976 Late Model Sportsman division at Nashville Speedway was the Kiddie Corps. Rookies Mike Alexander, Sterling Marlin and Dennis Wiser along with second year driver...
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Nashville's Superspeedway Ventures - part 1
Nashville's Fairgrounds Speedway hosted NASCAR's Grand National division (later Winston Cup Series) from 1958 through 1984. Following financial difficulties of the track's operator, Warner Hodgdon,...
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Nashville's Superspeedway Ventures - part 2
Part 1: Nashville's Superspeedway Ventures - 1960s-1970sIn late 1978, promoter Bill Donoho sold his interest in the Fairgrounds lease to racer Lanny Hester and CPA-lawyer-businessman Gary Baker. A...
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Nashville's Sterling Beer Trophy
Nashville's Fairground Speedways opened in 1958, and quickly built a solid reputation for its annual NASCAR Grand National race, the season-ending Southern 300 late model event, and the weekly modified...
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Documenting the King's wins
For over 30 years, I've collected all sorts of Petty-related trivia: pictures, articles, magazines, autographs, decals, die-cast, books, Pepsi bottles, and even a big ol' can of Maxwell House coffee....
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Nashville's 1972 Permatex Southern 300
Drivers belted in for the 14th running of the Southern 300 on October 1, 1972. The race was the third of the 20 editions to fall on October 1st. The race was also the first one to add a sponsor....
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January 16, 1977 - Winston Western 500
The first race of the 1977 NASCAR Cup season was the annual event on Riverside International Raceway's nine-turn road course. In a change from prior races, the 1977 season opener was a 500 kilometer...
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January 18, 1976 - Winston Western 500
NASCAR entered 1976 with several storylines:Could additional team sponsors be signed to shore up many teams who struggled in 1975?Would fan attendance increase if the number of quality, sponsored cars...
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Daytona's 1969 and 1971 Twins
David Pearson is the second winningest NASCAR Cup driver of all time. His 105 wins rank second only to the King, Richard Petty. Included in Petty's 200 wins are seven Daytona 500 victories. Seven!...
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March 5, 1978 - The Rock's Carolina 500
The 1978 Winston Cup season opened in January in southern California rather than in February at Daytona as has been the case since the late 1980s. Cale Yarborough won the season opener at Riverside's...
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March 9, 1969 - Rockingham's Carolina 500
The 1969 NASCAR Grand National season began in November 1968 followed by Riverside's road course race in January and Daytona's Speedweeks in February, The circuit then began its grind two weeks later...
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March 18, 1973 - Rockingham's Carolina 500
The 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup season opened in January at Riverside International Raceway. Mark Donohue won his first and only Cup race in the Winston Western 500. The victory earned Roger Penske his...
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March 19, 1967 - Bristol's Southeastern 500
The seventh race of the 1967 NASCAR Grand National season was the Southeastern 500 at Bristol International Speedway. The Bristol-then was a far cry from Bristol-now. The track name, seating capacity,...
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March 21, 1976 - Atlanta 500
As NASCAR's 1976 season hit March, a couple of storylines had begun to develop.The partnership of the Wood Brothers team and driver David Pearson was strong as a brahma bull with wins in the...
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March 24, 1968 - Richmond 500
After an abbreviated NASCAR season in 1965, Richard Petty returned full-time in 1966. The King picked up at Daytona where he left off in 1964 by winning his second Daytona 500 in three years.The...
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March 25, 1967 - Greenville 200
NASCAR's Grand National division rolled into South Carolina on Easter Saturday for the eighth race of the 1967 season for the Greenville 200 at Greenville-Pickens Speedway. Looming over the early part...
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March 28, 1964 - Greenville 200
The 11th race of the 1964 NASCAR Grand National season was the Easter Saturday night Greenville 200 at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina. Four of the season's 11 races had been run in...
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April 1, 1973 - Atlanta 500
NASCAR's 1973 Winston Cup season opened with wins by its heavy hitters, although one was a veteran of only five Cup starts. Mark Donohue - a superstar driver but with only a handful of NASCAR starts -...
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April 3, 1966 - Hickory 250
NASCAR's Grand National drivers arrived in Hickory, North Carolina in the spring of 1966 for the Hickory 250, the first of two races at the 4/10-mile dirt track that season.Through the early part of...
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April 7, 1966 - Columbia 200
NASCAR's Grand National teams arrived in South Carolina for a Thursday night rumble. The Columbia 200 was held on the venerable, half-mile, dirt Columbia Speedway.Curtis Turner debuted Ford's Fairlane...
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