Known since its inception as primarily an oval-track discipline, NASCAR has raced at no less than 16 road circuits.
Other long-abandoned and mostly-forgotten venues hosted also road races during the early- to late-1950s. Among them were airport circuits in Montgomery, Ala. and Kitsap, Wa. The famous Bridgehampton Circuit on Long Island gave New Yorkers their first close-up look at NASCAR’s top series. Willow Springs Raceway, which hosted Cup races in 1956 and 1957, was a shooting location for the recentFinally, after years on less-than-ideal venues, NASCAR took its show to Riverside Raceway. The 2.
Elliott will return in the No. 9 Hendrick Chevrolet after missing last weekend’s St. Louis race. He was suspended a week for intentionally wrecking Denny Hamlin during the recent Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. He missed six early-season races due to a snowboarding accident and almost certainly must win to make the 16-driver Playoff field since making it on points seems unlikely.
In July of 1949, after getting permission to close part of Route A1A , NASCAR founder Bill France graded left-handed access turns so his new class of “Strictly Stock” racers could leave the pavement for the hard-packed sand beside the Atlantic Ocean. They’d run about two miles north to the other access turn, which led back to Route A1A and another two-mile run southward, toward Ponce Inlet.
Once he ran the 1959 Daytona 500 on “the big track,” the highway/beach course became only a fond memory for long-time fans who occasionally still visit the site.Unemployed after three years as an Army officer and Vietnam vet, Al Pearce shamelessly lied his way onto a small newspaper’s sports staff in Virginia in 1969. He inherited motorsports, a strange and unfamiliar beat which quickly became an obsession.
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