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Closed after 1964; site of Richard Petty's first championship. Speedway Park (1945–1964) Jacksonville Speedway (1964–1969) 0.500-mile dirt oval Jacksonville, Florida: Jacksonville 200 (1964) 1951–1952 1954–1955 1961 1964 Closed in August 1969. Site of Wendell Scott's historic win. Now the site of an apartment complex. Knoxville Raceway
The NASCAR Cup Series is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), the most prestigious stock car racing series in the United States. The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Division, and from 1950 to 1970 it was known as the Grand National Division. In 1971, when the series began leasing its ...
The NASCAR championship season consists of a series of races, held usually on oval tracks, and in a few cases, road courses. [4] Each season throughout NASCAR history has consisted of between 8 and 62 races. [5] The results of each race are combined to determine two championships in each of the top series, one for drivers and one for manufacturers.
Asphalt. Length. 1.400 miles (2.253 km) Turns. 7. Phoenix Raceway is a 1-mile, low-banked tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona, near Phoenix. The motorsport track opened in 1964 and currently hosts two NASCAR race weekends annually including the final championship race since 2020. Phoenix Raceway has also hosted the CART, IndyCar ...
Richard Petty holds the record for the most NASCAR Cup Series wins in history with 200. David Pearson is second with 105 victories, and Jeff Gordon is third with 93 wins. [5] Petty also holds the record for the longest time between his first win and his last. He won his first race in 1960 and his last in 1984, a span of 24 years. [6]
Located next to the 1/2 Mile Oval was the Augusta International Raceway 3 Mile road circuit. This former track is being developed into the 300-acre (1.2 km 2) Diamond Lakes Regional Park. The "Augusta 510" was run on November 17, 1963, at the road circuit with a noon start time and a 5:00 PM end time. The race actually covered 417 miles (671 km ...
6.600 miles (10.622 km) Turns. 28 (approximately) Race lap record. 5:13.500 ( Phil Walters, Healey-Cadillac Special, 1950, Formula Libre) Watkins Glen International, nicknamed " The Glen ", is an automobile race track in the northeastern United States, located in Dix, New York, just southwest of the village of Watkins Glen, at the southern tip ...
North Wilkesboro Speedway is a 0.625 miles (1.006 km) paved oval short track in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. The track has hosted a variety of racing events since its inaugural season of racing in 1947; primarily races sanctioned by NASCAR. It has been owned by Speedway Motorsports, LLC (SMI) since 2007 with Ronald Queen serving as ...