In 1997, after his sponsorship with Coca-Cola ended, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon signed a long term contract with Pepsi, and he drives with the Pepsi logos on his car with various paint schemes for about 2 races each year, usually a darker paint scheme during nighttime races.

Dave Blaney drove a NASCAR Winston Cup # 93 Pontiac Grand Prix under Amoco sponsorship from 1997 until the brand's demise in 2001.

The Third-generation Taurus had a presence in NASCAR, replacing the Thunderbird after the 1997 season.

* NASCAR series ( 1997 – 2009 )

In 1997, NASCAR started phasing pit stops.

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

Auto Club Speedway ( formerly California Speedway ) is a two-mile ( 3 km ), low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since 1997.

The official opening and ribbon cutting ceremony was held on June 20, 1997 with the first race, a NASCAR West Series race, being held the next day.

The TEN multiplayer hosting service was introduced and went live in November 1997 with the backing of NASCAR and the online sim racing community grew.

From 1991 until the end of the 1997 season, Western Auto sponsored NASCAR driver Darrell Waltrip's race team.

* Jacques Villeneuve, a Formula 1 World Champion of 1997 and current NASCAR driver

Harvick also moved up to the NASCAR Grand National Division, AutoZone West Series in 1997, and in 1998 Harvick won five races on his way to the Winston West Series championship while driving for spears He received his real first national exposure during the winter of 1997 / 1998 on ESPN2's coverage of the NASCAR Winter Heat Series at Tucson Raceway Park.

His # 43 jersey, a number he picked as a tribute to NASCAR legend Richard Petty ( whom Daugherty lists as his favorite sportsman ) was retired by the Cavaliers on March 1, 1997.

* NASCAR Grand National Series Expansion Pack ( 1997 ) ( add-on for NASCAR Racing 2 )

He achieved his first career win in 1997, finishing first in the Interstate Batteries 500 at Texas Motor Speedway ( the inaugural NASCAR race at TMS ), and would go on to win 14 more races during the four-year run.

The NASCAR " West Series " held a combination race from 1989 to 1997 and has held a standalone race since 2006.

In 1997, Compton signed up with a new team, Impact Motorsports, to run the # 86 Valvoline Ford F-150 for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rookie of the Year Award.

In 1997 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Roush vowed to give Musgrave whatever he needed to win his first race.

He next raced two NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ( now Camping World Truck Series ) races in 1997.

Gaughan made his NASCAR debut in a Truck Series race in 1997 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

However, the subsequent period saw the departure of manager van Gaal along with an exodus of many key players including Clarence Seedorf in 1995 ; Edgar Davids, Michael Reiziger, Finidi George, and Nwankwo Kanu in 1996 ; Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, and Winston Bogarde in 1997 ; Ronald de Boer and Frank de Boer in 1998 ; and Edwin van der Sar and Jari Litmanen in 1999.

Other notable instanced occurred on July 24th 1997 when the guided missile destroyer and frigate rendered honors to the Constitution during her 200th Birthday celebration, and on September 14, 2001, when the crew of the German destroyer Lütjens manned the rails as they approached the destroyer USS Winston Churchill and displayed an American flag and a banner reading " We Stand By You ".

Churchill was the son of Randolph Churchill ( 1911 – 1968 ), the only son of Sir Winston Churchill, and of Randolph's wife Pamela Digby ( 1920 – 1997 ), later to become famous as Pamela Harriman.

* Patrick Winston, 1972 – 1997

Yates would bring home 2 NHRA Winston Pro Stock Championships in 1996 and 1997.

McClenathan finished 2nd in NHRA Winston Top Fuel points in both 1997 and 1998 with Gibbs.

After competing at various Winston Racing tracks in the 90's, he moved up to the Slim Jim All Pro Series in 1997, grabbing a win at Bristol Motor Speedway in the # 15 Austin Foods Chevy.

The taxon Sorbeoconcha was named by Winston Ponder and David R. Lindberg in 1997.

In June 1997, the California Speedway began hosting a Winston Cup race.

In April 1997 the Winston Cup Series began racing at the newly-built Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.

* Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema ( Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997 )

** To celebrate 25 years since his first Winston Cup race ( 1972 ), during the 1997 season, he had cars painted to resemble different cars during his career.

* Cranford, Paul ( 1997 ), Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes

Harvick's 1997 Winston West car

After returning from racing in Europe in 1997, Nadeau moved to the Winston Cup Series, and signed a five-race contract with Precision Products Racing to replace Morgan Shepherd in the # 1 R + L Carriers / Cruisin ' America Pontiac Grand Prix.

Irwin's 1997 Winston Cup car

Irwin also made his debut in the Winston Cup Series in 1997 with David Blair Motorsports at Richmond.

In two of his books – Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television ( 1997 ) and Media Technology and Society ( 1998 ) – Winston applied this model to show how technologies evolves over time, and how their ' invention ' is mediated and controlled by society and societal factors which suppress the radical potential of a given technology.

He is also the author of three books, Choral Conducting ( Holt Reinhart and Winston 1971, second edition Schirmer Books 1985 ), Sight Singing ( W. W. Norton 1979, 1997 ), and The Study of Orchestration ( W. W. Norton 1982, 1989, 2001 ; Italian edition edited by Lorenzo Ferrero for EDT Srl Torino, 2008 ).

* Lord Thomas Henry Winston Phipps ( b. 3 June 1997 )

Upon his return, he won the Winston Open and finished a then-career-best 19th in points and a total of $ 1, 139, 860 in winnings for 1997.