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April 14, 1993
NASCAR president Bill France and Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Tony George jointly announce that the long-awaited Brickyard 400 NASCAR Winston Cup event will be run on Aug. 6, 1994.









April 15, 1962
Two-time NASCAR Grand National champion Herb Thomas ends a five-year retirement with a 14th-place finish in the Gwyn Staley Memorial 400 at the North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway.









April 16, 1972
David Pearson makes his first start for the Wood Brothers after A.J. Foyt left to concentrate on Indy car racing and laps the field in beating Richard Petty in the Rebel 400 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway. The team would combine for 42 more victories in the next seven years.









April 17, 1955
Tim Flock inherits the lead when the engine in Herb Thomas' car goes sour in the final laps of a 200-lap, 100-mile NASCAR Grand National race at the Montgomery (Ala.) Motor Speedway. Flock leads the final 10 laps to win ahead of Joel Millon, who was four laps behind. Thomas runs 190 of the 200 laps and finishes fifth.









April 18, 1954
The Thomas brothers, Herb and Donald are 1-2 at Hillsborough, N.C., the first time brothers have swept the top spots in a NASCAR Grand National race.









April 19, 1997
Raybestos Rookie Steve Park wins the BellSouth Mobility/Opryland 320 NASCAR Busch Series race at Nashville (Tenn.) Speedway USA. He's the series' first rookie winner in three years.









Did You Know?
That the starting times of races on the famous Daytona Beach, Fla., beach/road course in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s were often determined by when the tide was scheduled to ebb and flow on the beach.









April 22, 1962
Three-time NASCAR Grand National champion Lee Petty finishes fifth at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, his first start since his spectacular crash during the 1961 Speedweeks program in Daytona Beach, Fla. His son, Richard, wins the 500-lap, 250-mile race at the half-mile track ahead of Joe Weatherly, Rex White and Fred Lorenzen.









Did You Know?
That Richard Petty was the first second-generation NASCAR Grand National driver to win a race. His father, Lee, had won 48 by the time Richard broke through at the half-mile dirt track at the Charlotte (N.C.) Fairgrounds on Feb. 28, 1960.









April 24, 1955
Pole-sitter Tim Flock leads all the way in the rain-shortened NASCAR Grand National race at the Langhorne (Pa.) Speedway. The 1952 and soon-to-be 1955 Grand National champion finishes ahead of Buck Baker, Junior Johnson, Dick Rathmann and Herb Thomas for his third victory of the year, the 20th of his career.









April 25, 1982
Harry Gant, a 10-time runner-up in NASCAR Winston Cup racing, finally gets his first career victory in the Hanes 500 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.









April 26, 1981
Morgan Shepherd, the 1980 NASCAR Late Model Sportsman national champion, gets his breakthrough NASCAR Winston Cup victory in the Virginia 500 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.









April 28, 1985
Harry Gant gets his first victory of the season and the seventh of his career in the Sovran Bank 500 at the Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. Driving for team owners Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds, he beats the lead-lap cars of Ricky Rudd, Geoff Bodine, Bobby Allison and Neil Bonnett.















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