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How North Carolina became the home of NASCAR

Today may not be a race day, and there may not be any spectators, but as a lone car rips around the track, the atmosphere at the North Wilkesboro Speedway is still electric.

The site of one of the first-ever official NASCAR races back in 1949, this place has become the most famous of its kind in North Carolina – if not in the whole of NASCAR – and was recently brought back to life, having been abandoned in 1996.Read More

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