2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series

• Daytona 500
• Auto Club 500
• UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400
• Kobalt Tools 500
• Food City 500
• Goody's Cool Orange 500
• Samsung 500
• Subway Fresh Fit 500
• Aaron's 499

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Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway) is a speedway in Concord, North Carolina, north of Charlotte. It features a 1.5 mile long quad-oval track that seats 167,000 people, with room for 50,000 more spectators in the infield.
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October 13 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

• 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania.

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Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver. "The King," as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat),winning a record 200 races
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David Pearson (born December 22, 1934 in Whitney, South Carolina) is a former American NASCAR racecar champion.

Known as the "Silver Fox", he debuted on the Grand National racing circuit in 1960 and earned Rookie of the Year honors that same season.
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Bobby Allison (born December 3, 1937 in Hialeah, Florida) is a former NASCAR Winston Cup driver and was named one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers. His two sons, Clifford Allison and Davey Allison followed him into racing, both dying within a year.
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Darrell Lee Waltrip (born February 5, 1947 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is a three-time former NASCAR Winston Cup champion, the 1989 Daytona 500 winner, and current television race commentator with Fox Broadcasting Company.
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William Caleb "Cale" Yarborough (born March 27, 1940 in Timmonsville, South Carolina, near the Famous Darlington Raceway), is a businessman and former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner. He is the only driver in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships.
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Jeffery Michael Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is a professional American race car driver. He was born in Vallejo, California, raised in Pittsboro, Indiana, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. (April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001) was an American race car driver, best known for his career driving stock cars in NASCAR's top division. Earnhardt had four children, Kerry, Kelley Elledge Earnhardt, Dale Jr., and Taylor Earnhardt.
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Russell William "Rusty" Wallace (born August 14, 1956 in Fenton, Missouri) is a former NASCAR champion, NASCAR Busch Series car owner, and television broadcaster with ESPN and ESPN on ABC. Wallace had his first live broadcast of the Indy 500 on May 28, 2006.
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Lee Petty (March 14, 1914 (near Randleman, North Carolina) - April 5, 2000) was an American stock car driver in the 1950s and 60s. He was one of the pioneers of NASCAR, and one of its first superstars.

Career

Lee Petty was thirty-five years old before he began racing.
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Ned Jarrett (born October 12, 1932 in Newton, North Carolina) is a retired race car driver and two-time NASCAR champion.

Jarrett was best known for his calm demeanor, and he became known as "Gentleman Ned Jarrett".
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Robert Glen Johnson, Jr. (born June 28, 1931) in Wilkes County, North Carolina, known as Junior Johnson, was a legendary moonshiner in the rural South who became one of the early superstars of NASCAR in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Herbert Watson Thomas (April 6, 1923–August 9, 2000) was a NASCAR pioneer who was one of the series' most successful drivers in the 1950s.

Background

Born in the small town of Olivia, North Carolina, Thomas originally worked as a farmer and also worked in a sawmill
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The Legend Elzie Wylie Baker Sr. better known as Buck Baker (March 4, 1919 in Richburg, South Carolina - April 14, 2002 in Charlotte, North Carolina) was an American racecar driver.
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William Clyde "Bill" Elliott (Born October 8, 1955 in Dawsonville, Georgia) is a part-time driver and former champion of, the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series. Elliott was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007.
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Julius Timothy "Tim" Flock (May 11, 1924 - March 31, 1998) was one of NASCAR's early pioneers, and a two time series champion. He was a brother to NASCAR's second female driver Ethel Mobley and NASCAR pioneers Bob Flock and Fonty Flock.
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Bobby Isaac (born August 1, 1932 - died August 14, 1977) is a former NASCAR Grand National (now Nextel Cup) Series champion.

Isaac grew up on a farm near Catawba, North Carolina, the second-youngest of nine children.
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Mark Anthony Martin (born January 9, 1959 in Batesville, Arkansas) is a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver for Dale Earnhardt, Inc., driving the #01 U.S. Army Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS/Impala, and is also a part-time driver in the Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series for Hendrick
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Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, Jr. (January 20, 1929 – July 2, 1964) was one of the pioneering race car drivers of NASCAR.

Background

Roberts was born in Tavares, Florida, and raised in Apopka, Florida where he was interested in both auto racing and baseball.
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Dale Arnold Jarrett (born November 26, 1956 in Newton, North Carolina) is an American race car driver. Jarrett currently races in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series exclusively, driving the #44 Toyota Camry for Michael Waltrip Racing.
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Anthony Wayne "Tony" Stewart (born May 20, 1971) is an auto racing driver who was born in Columbus, Indiana. He has won championships in sprint cars, Indy cars, and stock cars.
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Jimmie Kenneth Johnson (born September 17, 1975, El Cajon, California) is a current NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race car driver who drives the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS and Chevrolet Impala SS owned by his teammate Jeff Gordon and operated by Rick Hendrick's Hendrick Motorsports.
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Rex White is a former NASCAR champion. He began racing in 1956, grabbing fourteen top-ten finishes. After a part-time run in 1957, White won twice the next year. His big year came in 1960, when he won six races and the Grand National championship.
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Fred Lorenzen (born December 30, 1934 in Elmhurst, Illinois), is a former NASCAR driver. He first caught the car bug young, and had built his first car at the age of 13. After graduating from high school, he began racing modifieds and late models, and made his NASCAR debut in 1956
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James Roy "Jim" Paschal, Jr. (December 5, 1926 - July 5, 2004) was a NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup driver. He won twenty-five races and twelve poles over his career.

External link

• Career statistics at Racing-Reference.info

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Joe Weatherly (May 29, 1922 - January 19, 1964) was a two-time NASCAR championship driver.

Personality

Weatherly was wounded while serving for the United States armed forces in North Africa during World War II. A German sniper's bullet struck him in the face in two teeth.
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Ricky Rudd (born September 12, 1956 in Norfolk County, Virginia, now Chesapeake) is a NASCAR driver. He is the uncle of actor Skeet Ulrich and Busch Series driver Jason Rudd.
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