Ralph won his one and only NASCAR Sportsman Championship in 1956 at Greenville Pickens Speedway in Greenville, South Carolina.

To this day, Earnhardt is the only driver in NASCAR Winston Cup history to follow a Rookie of the Year title with a NASCAR Winston Cup Championship the next season.

" The King ", as he is nicknamed, is most well known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times ( Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat ), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races ( ten of them consecutively ) in the 1967 season alone.

Outside Formula One, Villeneuve has taken on several new careers: in sportscar racing, racing for Peugeot in the 2007 and 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans, jumping to NASCAR in August 2007 and racing as an invited driver in the Argentinian Top Race V6 series and the Australian based International V8 Supercars Championship.

* NASCAR iRacing. com Series World Championship driver Jesse Atchison.

Opened in 2006, Miller Motorsports Park hosts many of the world ’ s most significant racing series, including the American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, NASCAR Grand National West Series, AMA Superbike and Supersport Championship and, new for 2008, the FIM Superbike World Championship, one of the top three racing series in the world.

Montoya has also become a crossover race winner by winning races ( starting in each case in his rookie year ) in Formula One, CART, IndyCar, Grand-AM and NASCAR equalling in that respect Mario Andretti's caliber of success ( except for the F1 World Championship ); And shares honors as well with Dan Gurney in being IndyCar / F1 / NASCAR race winner.

** NASCAR Championship – Dale Earnhardt

** NASCAR Winston Cup Championship – Cale Yarborough

** NASCAR Championship – Richard Petty (# 43 Plymouth, Petty Enterprises )

** NASCAR Championship – Richard Petty (# 43 Plymouth, Petty Enterprises )

** NASCAR Championship – Richard Petty in the # 43 Plymouth for Petty Enterprises

He is remembered for his ability to drive and win in all types of cars and series, including a Lotus-Cortina, with which he won the 1964 British Touring Car Championship ; IndyCar ; NASCAR, driving a Ford Galaxie for the Holman Moody team ; Rallying, where he took part in the 1966 RAC Rally of Great Britain in a Lotus Cortina ; and sports cars.

** NASCAR Championship – Tony Stewart

** NASCAR Championship – Dale Jarrett

** NASCAR Championship – Jeff Gordon

** NASCAR Championship – Jeff Gordon

** NASCAR Championship – Jeff Gordon

** NASCAR Championship – Rusty Wallace

** NASCAR Championship – Bill Elliott

* NASCAR Championship – Herb Thomas driving his own # 92 Plymouth

* NASCAR Championship

* 1954 – Alan Kulwicki, American NASCAR driver ( d. 1993 )

* 1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.

* 2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.

* 1992 – Bill France, Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR ( b. 1909 )

* 1959 – Ernie Irvan, retired NASCAR driver and Daytona 500 champion

* 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.

* 1989 – Grant Adcox, NASCAR Driver ( b. 1950 )

* 1940 – Joe Gibbs, American football coach and NASCAR race team owner

* 1970 – Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver

* 1956 – Terry Labonte, American NASCAR driver

* 1981 – Jon Wood, American NASCAR driver

* 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.

* CASCAR Super Series 1981 – 2006 ; now NASCAR Canadian Tire Series

* January 19 – Joe Weatherly, NASCAR championship driver ( b. 1922 )

* June 19 – Glenn Dunnaway wins the inaugural NASCAR race at Charlotte Speedway, a 3 / 4 mile oval in Charlotte, North Carolina, but is disqualified due to illegal springs.

* July 3 – Richard Petty, seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion

As an example, new affiliates WDJT in Milwaukee and WGNX in Atlanta — both cities that are home to NASCAR races — and WWJ in Detroit, close to Michigan International Speedway, were on the UHF band ( channels 14 – 69 ), meaning that they had a significantly reduced broadcast area compared to former affiliates WITI, WAGA-TV, and WJBK, respectively.

For NASCAR Grand National winners at Daytona from 1949 – 1958, see Daytona Beach & Road Course. Mario Andretti, born in Italy, is the only driver to win the race not from the United States.

* Coy Duke ( Byron Cherry ) ( 1982 – 83 ), the replacement for Bo, is another blond-haired cousin who moved to Uncle Jesse's farm along with cousin Vance after Bo and Luke left Hazzard to join the NASCAR circuit.

Sports programming is also provided, usually on weekends ( albeit not every weekend year-round ), and most commonly between 12 – 4 or 12-8 p. m. on Sundays ( during football season, slightly less during NASCAR season ) and 3: 30 – 7 p. m. on Saturday afternoons ( during baseball season ).

With a sports division now established with the arrival of the NFL, Fox acquired over-air broadcast rights to the National Hockey League ( 1994 – 99 ), Major League Baseball ( since 1996 ), and NASCAR auto racing ( since 2001 ).

* Team Red Bull – a racing team competing in the U. S .- based stock car racing competition NASCAR Red Bull Racing Team competed in NASCAR beginning in 2007.

He made his NASCAR Nextel Cup race debut in the UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama over the weekend of 5 – 7 October 2007.