NASCAR's deep history is surprisingly not very well known, even for avid fans; this article is meant to get fans in the know of the most notable NASCAR history that happened throughout this week.
October 16th, 1949 - Red Byron becomes the first Strictly Stock champion, being 117.5 points ahead of Lee Petty, who was runner up.
October 14th, 1951 - NASCAR makes headlines in newspapers nationwide when 106 cars compete at Langhorne Speedway for the NASCAR Modified and Sportsman event. The race is halted after a minute-long massive pileup critically injures Don Black; the winner of the 83 lap event is Dick Eagan, who was filling in for Hully Bunn.
October 12th, 1957 - Fireball Roberts takes the checkered flag to win the 100-mile race at Newberry Speedway, N.C. A small crowd of only 900 race fans attend the event, making up the smallest attendance record in NASCAR history.
October 15th, 1967 - Richard Petty's 10-race winning streak ends when Buddy Baker wheels his car to victory in the National 500 at Charlotte Speedway. This victory is Baker's first NASCAR Grand National career win.
October 15th, 2001 - Ricky Craven wins the “Old Dominion” 500 to notch his first NASCAR Winston Cup career victory.
October 13th, 2002 - Jamie McMurray wins the UAW-GM Quality 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, grabbing his first Winston Cup career victory. McMurray was filling in for the injured Sterling Marlin, and he won in his second start.
October 11th, 2008 - Jeff Burton wins at Charlotte (Lowe’s) Motor Speedway, scoring his 21st and final Cup Series victory of his NASCAR career.
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