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North Wilkesboro dates back to the first year of NASCAR’s big-league stock-car series. You sorta expect this weekend’s racing to be broadcast in black-and-white.
You’ll hear a lot this week about North Wilkesboro’s role in NASCAR history, and that’s fitting. Bob Flock finished a half-straightaway ahead of Lee Petty to win North Wilkesboro’s first Cup Series race in 1949. Nearly a half-century later, in 1996, Jeff Gordon finished several car lengths ahead of Dale Earnhardt to win the Holly Farms 400, which was the track's 93rd and final Cup race.
Until now.
Thirty years later, and after three years in which a renovated North Wilkesboro served as host to the All-Star Race, the Cup Series is returning to the five-eighths-of-a-mile oval in Northwest North Carolina, about halfway between Winston-Salem and the Tennessee line.
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Town population: About 4,000, increasing by roughly 25,000 this weekend.
Here’s the TV schedule.
2 p.m.: Truck Series practice (FS2).
3:05 p.m.: Truck Series qualifying (FS2).
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12:30 p.m.: Truck Series race, Faith Fest 250 (FS1).
5 p.m.: Cup Series practice (Tru).
6:10 p.m.: Cup Series qualifying (Tru).
7 p.m.: Cup Series race, Window World 450 (TNT).
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR time and TV channel for historic race at North Wilkesboro
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You’ll hear a lot this week about North Wilkesboro’s role in NASCAR history, and that’s fitting. Bob Flock finished a half-straightaway ahead of Lee Petty to win North Wilkesboro’s first Cup Series race in 1949. Nearly a half-century later, in 1996, Jeff Gordon finished several car lengths ahead of Dale Earnhardt to win the Holly Farms 400, which was the track's 93rd and final Cup race.
Until now.
Thirty years later, and after three years in which a renovated North Wilkesboro served as host to the All-Star Race, the Cup Series is returning to the five-eighths-of-a-mile oval in Northwest North Carolina, about halfway between Winston-Salem and the Tennessee line.
Stream NASCAR live on Sling
Town population: About 4,000, increasing by roughly 25,000 this weekend.
Here’s the TV schedule.
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Friday: Truck Series qualifying at North Wilkesboro
2 p.m.: Truck Series practice (FS2).
3:05 p.m.: Truck Series qualifying (FS2).
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Saturday: Truck race, Cup qualifying
12:30 p.m.: Truck Series race, Faith Fest 250 (FS1).
5 p.m.: Cup Series practice (Tru).
6:10 p.m.: Cup Series qualifying (Tru).
Sunday: Points racing returns to North Wilkesboro
7 p.m.: Cup Series race, Window World 450 (TNT).
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR time and TV channel for historic race at North Wilkesboro
Continue reading...
