Also, on April 26, 2013, as a result of negative press surrounding the indictment incident, the Charlotte Motor Speedway replaced Currington as a performer for its All Star pre-race entertainment.
H. A. "Humpy" Wheeler and the speedway then sponsored the funding for the traveling sculpture exhibition to be featured by Belk College of Business on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where a self-guided tour of the campus-wide display was extended to the end of July.
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The feature of the April 2005 Food Lion Auto Fair at the speedway was a popular sculpture exhibition, Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs.
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Following the decision Smith threatened to close Charlotte Motor Speedway and build a track elsewhere in Metrolina.
It also produced telecasts of pre-season games of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League, and in the 1980s, syndicated coverage of the NASCAR Winston Cup races at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
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Members of Club E have access to Dale Earnhardt footage, personal items, discounts at the DEI retail store, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, the NASCAR Hall of Fame, Kannapolis Intimidators games, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet, and Great Wolf Lodge, Inc. and member only events.
From 2004 to 2007 Mopar sponsored the #9 car driven by Kasey Kahne in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
In 1991, Charlotte Motor Speedway owner O. Bruton Smith and former track president H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler approached Musco with the challenge of illuminating the 1.5-mile track for the 1992 Winston, famously promoted and remembered as "One Hot Night".
Coca-Cola 600, the current NASCAR race held at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina on Memorial Day
In 1964, Lorenzen won: the Southeastern 500 at Bristol; the Atlanta 500; the Gwen Staley 400 at North Wilkesboro; the Virginia 500 at Martinsville; the Rebel 300 at Darlington; the Volunteer 500; the Old Dominion 500 and the National 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway; six of those races are current "classics" on the Sprint Cup Circuit as of 2013.
Crafton's first NASCAR win came at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 16, 2008, in the North Carolina Education Lottery 200.