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His cause of death, basilar skull fracture, was the same cause that killed Busch Series driver Adam Petty eight weeks prior at Busch 200 at the same track, leading NASCAR to make significant rule changes to maintain driver safety, including an experiment on using a restrictor plate for the second New Hampshire Cup race that season.
New Hampshire Motor Speedway: Jeff Burton and Kevin Harvick: 4 Phoenix Raceway: Kevin Harvick: 9 Raleigh Speedway: Fonty Flock, Fireball Roberts, and Herb Thomas: 2 Rockingham Speedway: Richard Petty: 11 Texas Motor Speedway: Jimmie Johnson: 7 Trenton Speedway: Richard Petty: 3 World Wide Technology Raceway: Kyle Busch, Austin Cindric, and Joey ...
Named one of NASCAR's 75 Greatest Drivers (2023) NASCAR Cup Series career; 733 races run over 21 years: 2023 position: 55th: Best finish: 2nd : First race: 2000 Checker Auto Parts/Dura Lube 500 : Last race: 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race : First win: 2002 New Hampshire 300 (New Hampshire) Last win: 2017 Camping World 500
The following year, Gordon won a modern-era record 13 races at Charlotte, Sonoma, Pocono, Indianapolis, Watkins Glen, Michigan, New Hampshire, Darlington, Daytona, Rockingham and Atlanta. He clinched his third title with a 364-point lead over Mark Martin . [ 53 ]
The New Hampshire 300 was held at New Hampshire International Speedway on September 15. Ryan Newman won the pole. The race was shortened to 207 laps due to rain. Top ten results. 12- Ryan Newman; 97- Kurt Busch; 20- Tony Stewart; 10- Johnny Benson; 18- Bobby Labonte; 32- Ricky Craven; 88- Dale Jarrett; 15- Michael Waltrip; 48- Jimmie Johnson ...
The next weekend at Bristol, he moved to the No. 22 Bill Davis Racing MBNA-sponsored Pontiac after 21 races, and he won the AC-Delco 400 at Rockingham toward the end of that season. Caterpillar became the new primary sponsor for the car in 1999, when he picked up a career high 9th-place points finish, with 6 top five finishes and 16 top ten ...
The North Carolina Education Lottery 250 is a NASCAR Xfinity Series at Rockingham Speedway.. The race was originally a 197-lap race from the series' inception in 1982 until 2004 (with a second race between 1984 and 2003, except in 1987), after which Rockingham was removed from both the Busch as well as Nextel Cup Series schedules as a result of the Ferko lawsuit.
Rockingham Speedway and Entertainment Complex (formerly known as North Carolina Speedway from 1998 to 2007 and North Carolina Motor Speedway from 1965 to 1996) is a 1.017-mile (1.637 km) D-shaped oval track in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States.