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Piedmont Pit Stops: Tracking the legacy of moonshine and motorsports on Purgatory Trail

3:00pm August 15, 2024

North Carolina officials are highlighting sites significant to the state’s history of both bootlegging and stock car racing. The Moonshine and Motorsports Trail maps the origin story of the two intertwined industries.

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North Wilkesboro Speedway to host All-Star Race after last year's lucrative comeback

4:26pm May 16, 2024

by Paul Garber

After a successful first year back, the NASCAR All-Star Race returns to North Wilkesboro Speedway this weekend. Last year's event generated tens of millions of dollars in regional revenue.

A photo of racing cars at the North Wilkesboro speedway

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NASCAR to return $1 million All-Star race to North Wilkesboro again in 2024

1:47pm September 28, 2023

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

The NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race will remain at North Wilkesboro Speedway in 2024 after this year's event — the first race for NASCAR there in 27 years — attracted a capacity crowd thrilled to return to stock car roots.

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Bowman Gray trades racing for home runs, disco for July 4 holiday

5:01pm July 03, 2023

by Paul Garber

The Carolina Disco Turkeys are hosting the first organized baseball series at Winston-Salem’s historic Bowman Gray Stadium.

In this image taken from video provided by ABC7 Chicago, several vehicles are stranded in the flooded viaduct at Fifth and Cicero avenues, in Chicago, Sunday, July 2, 2023.

Heavy rains flood Chicago roads and force a downtown street race to be cut short

5:12am July 03, 2023

by The Associated Press

The National Weather Service warned flooding could be "life-threatening," with numerous impassable roads, overflowing creeks and streams and flooded basements across the Chicago area.

Jimmie Johnson and his wife Chandra Janway pose on the red carpet before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto racing awards in Las Vegas, Dec. 2, 2016.

NASCAR great Jimmie Johnson's in-laws found shot to death in Oklahoma

10:30am June 28, 2023

by The Associated Press

Police in Muskogee, Oklahoma, confirmed Tuesday they are investigating the shooting deaths of three relatives of seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson.

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North Wilkesboro 'definitely has a place' in NASCAR's world, but unclear what capacity

4:11pm May 22, 2023

by Steve Reed, Associated Press

Speedway Motorsports CEO Marcus Smith said North Wilkesboro Speedway “definitely has a place in the NASCAR world” moving forward, despite

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Gov. Cooper visits North Wilkesboro Speedway ahead of the NASCAR All-Star Race

4:57pm May 17, 2023

by David Ford

Following nearly three decades of dormancy, and months of renovation efforts, the North Wilkesboro Speedway is once again hosting the NASCAR All-Star Race, set to begin thi

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Fans return to North Wilkesboro Speedway ahead of NASCAR All-Star Race

4:32pm May 11, 2023

Fans returned to North Wilkesboro Speedway for an open house Wednesday ahead of next week’s NASCAR All-Star Race, a landmark night for the track that has been mostly dorman

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NASCAR returning to North Wilkesboro with '23 All-Star Race

3:39pm September 09, 2022

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

NASCAR is returning to one of its original venues that it left more than a quarter-century ago — North Wilkesboro Speedway.