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July 23, 1994
In what some consider the most competitive race in NASCAR Busch Series history, Ken Schrader wins the Fram Filters 500K at the Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. The 117-lap race features 30 lead changes among 14 drivers, with Schrader leading only the final two laps.









July 25, 1965
With Chrysler Corp. back in NASCAR Grand National racing, Richard Petty makes his first 1965 start and finishes 17th in the Volunteer 500 at the Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.









July 31, 1960
Fireball Roberts wins the first race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga. He starts first and beats Cotton Owens and Jack Smith in the 200-lap, 300-mile event.









Aug. 1, 1959
Ned Jarrett, who will become a two-time NASCAR Grand National champion, gets the first of his 50 career victories. It comes in a 200-lap, 100-mile race on the half-mile Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Speedway.









Aug. 6, 1994
"Hometown hero" Jeff Gordon wins the inaugural Brickyard 400, the first NASCAR Winston Cup race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The 400-mile event draws an estimated 300,000 fans and pays more than $5 million, both NASCAR Winston Cup records at the time.









Aug. 7, 1981
Reigning NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt announces he's leaving Jim Stacy's team to drive the last 11 races of the year for driver-turned-owner Richard Childress, his first of two tenures with Childress.









Aug. 12, 1951
NASCAR Grand National racing goes into the heart of the Midwest with a 250-mile race on a 1-mile dirt track at the Michigan Fairgrounds in Detroit. Tommy Thompson wins ahead of Joe Eubanks, the only other driver on the lead lap.









Aug. 13, 1950
A 21-year-old Floridian named Edward Glenn "Fireball'' Roberts gets his first NASCAR Grand National victory in a 100-lapper on the 1-mile dirt Occoneechee Speedway at Hillsborough, N.C.









Aug. 14, 1988
Two of NASCAR Winston Cup's better road course racers, Ricky Rudd and Rusty Wallace, bang fenders exiting the final turn of the Bud at the Glen. Both cars get sideways but Rudd takes the victory 1.5 car lengths ahead of Wallace.









Aug. 20, 1960
Richard and Lee Petty swap cars moments before the start of a 150-lap, 37.5-mile NASCAR Grand National race at South Boston (Va.) Speedway. Lee, thinking Richard's No. 43 is better, finishes seventh; Richard, in his father's No. 42, is sixth. Junior Johnson wins by a lap over Possum Jones.









Aug. 21, 1975
Bob Latford, Joe Whitlock and Phil Holmer gather at the Boot Hill Saloon on Main Street in Daytona Beach, Fla., to create a new point system for NASCAR Winston Cup racing. It awards five bonus points for leading a lap and five more for leading the most laps.









Aug. 28, 1977
Janet Guthrie finishes sixth in the Food City 500 NASCAR Winston Cup race at the Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. It's the best finish by a female driver in NASCAR's modern era.









Sept. 3, 1962
Larry Frank is back in his motel room in Darlington, S.C., when word comes that instead of finishing fourth, he's the winner of the Southern 500. Instead of calling the Labor Day weekend race the 13th annual, promoters call it the "12th renewal" since so many drivers were superstitious about racing in the 13th annual race.









Sept. 4, 1950
Johnny Mantz wins the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile stock car race in history and NASCAR's first paved-track race.









Sept. 25, 1949
The half-mile Martinsville (Va.) Speedway hosts its first NASCAR "Strictly Stock" race. It's the only one of the eight "original" tracks still hosting NASCAR Winston Cup races.









October 1, 2000
Wood Brothers Racing, a team that has fielded only Ford and Mercury cars since its first NASCAR start in 1953, competed in its 1,000th NASCAR Winston Cup race.









Did you know?
Dave Marcis was the last Winston Cup driver to win at Talladega (1976) in a Dodge.










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