Born to race car driver Ralph Lee Earnhardt, Earnhardt began his career in 1975 when he drove in the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the Winston Cup Series ( later the Sprint Cup Series ).

Earnhardt began his professional career at the Winston Cup in 1975, making his debut at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina in the longest race on the Cup circuit, the World 600.

* Charlotte Motor Speedway, an auto racing track located in Concord, North Carolina ( in the Charlotte metropolitan area )

* Charlotte Motor Speedway, a speedway in Concord, North Carolina, north of Charlotte

The western part of the county is home to a large racing complex in Concord, including Charlotte Motor Speedway, which hosts three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events a year, The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and zMAX Dragway, which now hosts the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series twice a year.

The city is best known as the home of Charlotte Motor Speedway and numerous NASCAR driver headquarters.

Concord is the home to Charlotte Motor Speedway, a NASCAR Research and Development Office ( which also is the headquarters for research for touring and sportscar racing operations ), and several professional race teams, including Hendrick Motorsports, Roush Fenway Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, and Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.

Smith's company, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. owns Charlotte Motor Speedway.

In addition to Charlotte Motor Speedway, the company also owns and operates a dragstrip and dirt track facility adjacent to the speedway.

Concord is also home to the large retail venues of Carolina Mall and Concord Mills, just minutes away from Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Night race at Charlotte Motor Speedway

* Charlotte Motor Speedway

* Howard Augustine " Humpy " Wheeler, Jr., born in Belmont in 1938, immediate past President and General Manager of NASCAR's Charlotte Motor Speedway and one of the foremost promoters of NASCAR auto racing.

Before being fully integrated in the 2011 season, it was also used in 2010 races at Michigan International Speedway, Richmond International Raceway and Charlotte Motor Speedway.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Indy 500 and the World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway were held on different days of the week.

The current world record is the high-definition video board at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Waltrip's popularity as a driver would come full circle on the evening of The Winston, May 21, 1989, at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Davey won the fall event at Lowe's Motor Speedway ( then Charlotte Motor Speedway ) but finished the season 13th in the final Winston Cup standings.

Over the winter, the Musco Lighting company had installed a state-of-the-art lighting system at then Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Normally used an entry level formula, it has grown into a stand alone series, with National, State and Club events and Championships. The first NASCAR " Strictly Stock " race ever was held at Charlotte Speedway, on June 19, 1949. Where a racing class requires that the cars raced be production vehicles only slightly adapted for racing, manufacturers typically produce a limited run of such vehicles for public sale so that they can legitimately race them in the class.

* 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.

Charlotte Fairchild was excellent as the loyal Marie, who became the second Mrs. LaGuardia, singing and acting with remarkable conviction.

and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

At one such gathering Charlotte announced, `` I was at Ryusenji today.

`` Well I was able to do it '', Charlotte said with no sign of irritation.

`` But the point is '', Charlotte said, `` there he was, freezing, naked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in worship of Fudo, the god of fire ''.

He was surprised by the sharp sensation he experienced as he approached the pool which Charlotte had mentioned.

After his education, Alexei married, albeit greatly against his will Princess Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, whose family was connected by marriage to many of the great families of Europe i. e., Charlotte's sister Elizabeth was married to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy.

One of the terms of the marriage contract agreed to by Alexei was that while any forthcoming children were to be raised in the Orthodox faith, Charlotte herself was allowed to retain her Protestant faith ( an agreement that did not sit well at all with Alexei's followers ).

Some historians speculate that it was his conservative powerbase's disapproval of his foreign, non-Orthodox bride, more so than her appearance, that caused Alexei to spurn Charlotte.

Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

Around 1831, when Anne was eleven, she and Emily broke away from Charlotte and Branwell to create and develop their own fantasy world, Gondal.

Anne and Charlotte do not appear to have been close while at Roe Head ( Charlotte's letters almost never mention her ) but Charlotte was concerned about her sister's health.

It was subsequently acquired by George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte, and known as " The Queen's House ".

In 1844 on Bodmin Moor the body of 18 year old Charlotte Dymond was discovered.

Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.

Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria ( née Branwell ) and her husband Patrick Brontë ( formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty ), an Irish Anglican clergyman.

In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire.

These pseudonyms veiled the sisters ' gender whilst preserving their real initials, thus Charlotte was " Currer Bell ".

" Bell " was the middle name of Haworth's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls, whom Charlotte later married.

Charlotte responded by finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847, and six weeks later Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, was published.

Charlotte believed that art was most convincing when based on personal experience ; in Jane Eyre she transformed this experience into a novel with universal appeal.