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Richard Petty, the 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Champion. This would be the final of his 7 championships. Darrell Waltrip finished second in the standings Dale Earnhardt, the 1979 rookie of the year. The 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 31st season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 8th modern-era Cup series ...
On February 18, 1979, CBS presented the first flag-to-flag coverage of the Daytona 500. [2] Richard Petty won NASCAR's crown-jewel race for the sixth time, but the big story was the post-race fight on the track's infield between Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison , who crashed together on the final lap while leading. [ 2 ]
On February 18, 1979, CBS presented the first flag-to-flag coverage of the Daytona 500. [3] [4] Richard Petty won NASCAR's crown-jewel race for the sixth time, but more attention was drawn by the post-race fight on the track's infield between Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison, who crashed together on the final lap while leading. [3]
As a result, NASCAR's relationship with CBS, its oldest television partner, concluded at the end of the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series. While the 2000 Pepsi 400 was the last Winston Cup Series race to be broadcast on CBS, their true final NASCAR race in general was the Craftsman Truck Series' Chevy Silverado 200, broadcast on July 15, 2000.
The 1979 Daytona 500, the 21st annual running of the event, was the second race of the 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. It was held on February 18, 1979 at Daytona International Speedway, in Daytona Beach, Florida. It has been called the most important race in stock car history. [2]
Prior to the original 1999 contract between NASCAR and NBC, the network aired races such as the National 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway from 1979 [24] [25] [26] to 1981, [27] the 1981 Mountain Dew 500 [28] at Pocono International Raceway, the Winston 500 at Alabama International Motor Speedway from 1983 [29] [30] to 1985, and the Miami 300 [31 ...
The NASCAR championship season consists of a series of races, held usually on oval tracks, and in a few cases, road courses. [4] Each season throughout NASCAR history has consisted of between 8 and 62 races. [5] The results of each race are combined to determine two championships in each of the top series, one for drivers and one for manufacturers.
NASCAR on television in the 2020s This page was last edited on 24 July 2019, at 00:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...