Dale Jarrett was a Nascar Cup Series for 24 years (1984: 1 race, 1986: 3 races, 1987-2007, 2008: 5 races). He also drove full and part time in the Nascar Nationwide Series for 20 years.
Bristol is a .533 mile oval with 36-degree banking through the turns.
In the Nascar Sprint Cup Series the shortest races, in miles, are at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The track is 1.058 miles long. The summer race is the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 (which is 301 laps) and the fall race is the Sylvania 300 (300 laps). All other cup races are 400 or 500 miles in length.
Richard Petty has been a part of Nascar for over 50 years. His first race was on July 18, 1958.
Nascar race tracks vary in length. They range from a half mile long to over two and half miles. Nascar's shortest track is Martinsville Speedway (.526 miles) and Talladega Superspeedway is the longest (2.66 miles).
Dale Sr. never drove the #33 during his Nascar career.
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Dale Sr's first race was on May 25, 1975 and his last race was on February 18, 2001. Dale only competed in 9 races from 1975 to 1978. He then drove full time, up until the 2001 Daytona 500, the first race of the season, in which he died.
Nascar was founded on February 21, 1948, by Bill France Sr.
With the commercials about an hour. Without commercials about 43 minutes. :)
The Nascar Sprint Cup season begins in February and ends in November.
The average age of a NASCAR driver these days is between 25-40.