Nascar Number 35 Days Quot Til Daytona

35: Cup races run at Hickory (NC) Speedway. When Tiny Lund won the race Cup final in August 1971, was a .363-mile paved track. Ed Berrier won the race at the national level in the month of April 1998. Seven Junior Johnson 50 career wins came at Hickory. Tim Flock won the first race NASCAR at the track in May 1953 when the area was dirty and the length was half miles. NASCAR returned to Hickory in 1982 with the Nationwide Series races and 42 races.