Placing second was Red Byron, who won the first NASCAR-sanctioned race ever, held on February 15, 1948 at the Daytona Beach Road Course and would go on to become the first champion of the NASCAR's Strictly Stock division, now known as Sprint Cup.
After the race, Gordon was presented his Winston Cup, marking the only time the Cup was presented in the Northern United States.
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Besides connecting the cities of Talladega and Pell City, one of the main functions of SR-34 is that serves as one of several routes that leads motorists to and from Talladega Superspeedway, the site of two NASCAR Sprint Cup races.
Michael Waltrip Racing also fields a car driven by David Reutimann and will (in 2012) field a car sponsored (for the majority of Sprint Cup races) by 5-Hour Energy for Clint Bowyer.
Charles "Charlie" Glotzbach (born June 19, 1938 in Edwardsville, Indiana) is a former ARCA and was a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver.
In this time period, Kenseth won 18 races, the 2000 Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year Award, 2003 Sprint Cup Series Championship, 2004 Sprint Cup All Star Race and the 2009 Daytona 500.
The station launched on 2007-01-01 and broadcasts every Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Camping World Truck Series race live.
Plans are to bring the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, a rock-and-roll themed casino overlooking Turn Two to be built on the property, and also add a second race to a future NASCAR Sprint Cup season no later than 2011 by taking one of the dates from one of the ISC-owned tracks.
NASCAR will honor the legacy of actor and former Sprint Cup Series co-owner Paul Newman this weekend with a moment of silence during the pre-race ceremonies.
Among the other 23 finalists are circuit founder Bill France, Sr. and his son, Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty (who was also nominated along with his father, Lee), the only seven-time winners of the Sprint Cup Series, along with owner Richard Childress, and Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett, who like Waltrip, both had successful broadcasting careers after retiring as a driver.
Winning the race overall was the Daytona Prototype team of Chip Ganassi Racing, with drivers Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas, Graham Rahal and Joey Hand driving the #01 Riley & Scott-BMW defeating Chip Ganassi Racing's second team, consisting of IndyCar drivers Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti, and Sprint Cup teammates Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya in the #02 Riley & Scott-BMW by just over two seconds in a one-lap sprint following a late caution flag.
Numerous clips of Sprint Cup Series races from recent seasons with Angeli's and Chéreau's excitable and enthusiastic commentary have been uploaded to YouTube.
In 2013 Almirola returned to Richard Petty Motorsports' No. 43 in the Sprint Cup Series; at Martinsville Speedway in October, the team ran the No. 41 to honor Maurice Petty's induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Today, NASCAR uses fuel injection, which has made carburetors obsolete in the Sprint Cup Series.
The truck series also races two races at Martinsville Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway and also Kentucky Speedway however, both of those tracks also host a Sprint Cup Series race.
Dink Widenhouse (born 1932), retired NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) driver
He was known for being one of only four non-American drivers to have won a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race (the others being Juan Pablo Montoya, who won the 2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Mario Andretti, who won the 1967 Daytona 500), and Marcos Ambrose who won the 2011 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen.
Food City 500, a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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.
Front Row Motorsports, a team that competes on NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit
In addition, to date he joined a list of only 3 (now 4) drivers to ever win at least one championship in more than one of the three main title series (Bobby Labonte and Brad Keselowski are the other two, and they hace won championships in the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series.) His first win of the season came at the Camping World RV Sales 200 at the Milwaukee Mile, the third consecutive race that Benson has won as Milwaukee Mile.
Dave Blaney is a World of Outlaws champion and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver, while Dale Blaney is a sprint car driver.
After a caution period had finished, Ambrose had well-known Sprint Cup regular and Dakar Rally racer Robby Gordon behind him.
In 2007, three time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart welcomed Mr. Yocum as co-host of his two hour weekly radio show.
Bootie Barker (born 1971), crew chief in the NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car racing series
During the pace laps at the beginning of the race, she was bumped in jest by 6-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson.
Bland worked with WCEC through the 1960s, and used that as the base for the Racing News broadcast and NASCAR Sprint Cup races which he broadcast live from the various tracks on the circuit.
During the 2006 NASCAR Sprint Cup Season, Kvapil and his No. 32 Tide from PPI Motorsports appeared on an episode of Guiding Light.
Bob Welborn (1928 - 1997) of Denton, North Carolina is a former NASCAR Grand National (now Sprint Cup) driver