No American sports venue has ever hosted a big league team or series, been offline for this long and then had that team or series return. That's 14,012,640 minutes or 840,758,400 seconds, or, in North Wilkesboro Speedway stopwatch time, roughly 45,446,400 laps run. Two-hundred thirty-three-thousand, five-hundred forty-four hours. So long ago that seven of the drivers entered in this weekend's event weren't yet born and at least that many were still in diapers. Neither are a huge chunk of the sponsors that were on track that day, from Hayes Modems to PrimeStar. So long ago that 34 of the 37 drivers in the field with Gordon on that day are all retired from Cup Series racing. Twenty-six years, seven months and 23 days. 29, 1996, is now seven years into retirement and vice chairman of the team he was driving for when he held off Dale Earnhardt for the 19th of his eventual 93 victories. That's so many calendar pages ripped off and thrown away that the 25-year-old kid who won that last race, Jeff Gordon, victor of the Tyson Holly Farms 400 of Sept. Three-hundred nineteen months and 23 days. When the NASCAR All-Star Race drops the green flag on Sunday evening, that's how long it will have been since the cars of its premiere division, the Cup Series, raced for cash and prizes at North Wilkesboro Speedway. Nine-thousand, seven-hundred and thirty-one days. NASCAR's return to North Wilkesboro is a revival story after speedway's 26 years of ruin You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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