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    Occoneechee Speedway was one of the first two NASCAR tracks to open. It closed in 1968 and is the only dirt track remaining from the inaugural 1949 season...
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    the trail system in the Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area to trails on the Ayr Mount property and the Occoneechee Speedway trail. The Riverwalk is...
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    International Speedway. After failed attempts to negotiate with local government in Orange County, North Carolina, with the Occoneechee Speedway, he attempted...
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  • exception was on June 1, when races were held at both Toledo Speedway in Ohio, and Hayloft Speedway in Augusta, Georgia. Herb Thomas finished second to Flock...
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  • Occoneechee State Park, Virginia Occoneechee Farm, in Hillsborough, North Carolina Occoneechee Speedway, in Hillsborough, North Carolina Occoneechee Council...
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  • finishes. France promoted events at Seminole Speedway immediately after the war. He built the Occoneechee Speedway in 1947. France knew that promoters needed...
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  • February 5, 1950, the season included 19 races. The season concluded at Occoneechee Speedway on October 29. Bill Rexford won the Drivers' Championship with a...
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  • City Speedway 27 April 1952 11 Herb Thomas 1952-12 1952 Poor Man's 500 Canfield Speedway 30 May 1952 Tim Flock 1952-15 No name Occoneechee Speedway 8 June...
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    surrender of troops during the war, and effectively ended the Civil War. Occoneechee Speedway, just outside Hillsborough, was one of the first two NASCAR tracks...
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    Rocket". In 1968, Petty won 16 races including the last ever race at Occoneechee Speedway. In 1969 Ford significantly ratcheted up their factory involvement...
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    Motor Speedway Oxford Plains Speedway Gresham Motorsports Park Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Savannah Speedway Southside Speedway official...
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    The third race of the Strictly Stock season was held August 7 at Occoneechee Speedway. Jimmy Thompson won the pole. Bob Flock scored his first win of the...
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  • Turner suffered from inconsistency. In the final race of the year at Occoneechee Speedway, Rexford was locked in a tight battle with Fireball for the championship...
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    Greenville-Pickens Speedway, Occoneechee Speedway, Boyd Speedway, Lincoln Speedway, Rambi Raceway, Columbia Speedway and Hickory Motor Speedway. Pearson finished...
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  • Lucas The twenty-sixth race of the season was run on August 9 at Occoneechee Speedway in Hillsboro, North Carolina. Curtis Turner won the pole. Top ten...
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  • at Occoneechee Speedway (Hillsboro, North Carolina) on the first Sunday in August. In September, there were three races, first at Langhorne Speedway in...
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    brought Petty Enterprises their first starts, the first of these at Occoneechee Speedway, where Petty finished ninth. The team's first win came that year...
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  • Lost Speedways is a television documentary series produced by Peacock. The series is hosted by Dale Earnhardt Jr. as he travels to abandoned racetracks...
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  • motor sports. After an incident in the May 20 Virginia 500 at Martinsville Speedway that injured five spectators, including a young boy, ended the race with...
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  • were held at the Wilson Speedway in Wilson, North Carolina. Between 1951 and 1961 three races were held at the Marchbanks Speedway in Hanford, California...
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    France, purchased the horsetrack built by Carr and launched the Occoneechee Speedway. In the 1950s, small farms that had once been part of the plantation...
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  • Dane The fifth race of the 1951 season was held on April 15 at the Occoneechee Speedway. Fonty Flock won the pole. The race ended after 95 laps due to rain...
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  • at Langhorne Speedway in the No. 16 Oldsmobile, starting ninth and finishing 34th. He recorded his first top ten at Occoneechee Speedway, where he finished...
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  • Petty ran two dirt races for owner Don Robertson in 1970 at Columbia Speedway and North Carolina State Fairgrounds as part of a deal with Petty Enterprises...
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  • National season First race 1952 untitled race (held on June 8 at Occoneechee Speedway) Last race 1955 untitled race (held on May 29 at Forsyth County Fairgrounds)...
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  • events, with three Top 10s and a season-best fifth-place finish at Occoneechee Speedway at Hillsboro, North Carolina. Snowden finished 11th in the season...
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  • February 19, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2012. "Buck Baker — Occoneechee". Occoneechee / Orange Speedway. Archived from the original on November 16, 2019. Retrieved...
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  • rebounded and finished third at Occoneechee Speedway, ninth at Hamburg Speedway, and seventh at Martinsville Speedway (then a half-mile dirt track). He...
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  • He came back the next race with a career-best 3rd-place finish at Occoneechee Speedway, a position in which he would finish on two more occasions in his...
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