The mammoth campus of Hendrick Motorsports, located a couple of miles from Charlotte Motor Speedway, is one of the most specialized, state-of-the-art racing facilities in the world. Since 1984, team owner Rick Hendrick has enjoyed phenomenal success with 312 victories and 13 championships in NASCAR competition, including 12 titles and…
By description, the winged Dodge Daytonas unveiled and tested in early 1969 and originally slated for the 1970 NASCAR Grand National season seemed to have come right out of a science fiction movie.
NASCAR’s 600-mile race at Charlotte Motor Speedway has been a highlight of the schedule since June 19, 1960, the day Tennessee’s Joe Lee Johnson won the inaugural race on the new 1.5-mile track.
For 34 years, NASCAR driver and team owner Dave Marcis made the NASCAR Cup Series his home, and longtime NASCAR fans know the Wausau, Wis., native as one of stock car racing’s beloved competitors.
A decade before NASCAR was officially incorporated in February of 1948, dirt tracks sprang up throughout the South, some in cow pastures and open fields.
Decades after their untimely deaths in 1964 and 1970, respectively, Joe Weatherly and Curtis Turner are still talked about for their incredible, hard-charging driving talents and for their party-driven, crazy antics away from the track.
