Racing History
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LOOKING BACK: The Bristol Dirt Late Model Races
LOOKING BACK: The Bristol Dirt Late Model Races
Bristol Motor Speedway and the Hav-A-Tampa Dirt Racing Series made history in 2000. Twenty years ago this June to be exact.
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Racer Of The Day: Dave Blaney
Racer Of The Day: Dave Blaney
Best known for a long career in the NASCAR Cup Series, and today as Ryan Blaney’s dad, Dave Blaney enjoyed a legendary career wheeling open-wheel cars long before he climbed into a NASCAR stock car.
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Racer Of The Day: Bill Elliott
Racer Of The Day: Bill Elliott
Known by a generation of racing fans as “Awesome Bill from Dawsonville,” Bill Elliott was one of the most successful and most popular racers in NASCAR history.
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1955: The Year Racing Nearly Died
1955: The Year Racing Nearly Died
During one of auto racing’s most dangerous eras, there was one exceedingly deadly year in which 100 spectators and a half dozen drivers, some of them racing icons, perished.
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The Memorable 1980 World 600
The Memorable 1980 World 600
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.
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Racer Of The Day: Stevie Smith
Racer Of The Day: Stevie Smith
Second-generation sprint car racer Stevie Smith was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame during the summer of 2019.
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Racer Of The Day: Carl Edwards
Racer Of The Day: Carl Edwards
Carl Edwards’ racing career was a dead end. He was a local hero struggling to get recognition on a national level.
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Remembering Rusty Wallace’s Last Ride Dodge
Remembering Rusty Wallace’s Last Ride Dodge
When 2014 Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee Rusty Wallace strapped into his Team Penske Miller Lite “The Last Start” Dodge Charger for his final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Nov. 20, 2005, one would think that nothing short of a victory that day would have satisfied the retiring NASCAR champion.
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Danny ‘On The Gas’ Ongais
Danny ‘On The Gas’ Ongais
During a career that encompassed five decades, Danny Ongais earned nicknames that aptly defined his personality, temperament and style.
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