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NASCAR History: Sept. 11 -- 1999: In his 25th start, Tony Stewart wins his first Cup race in dominating style. Stewart leads 333 of 400 laps and beats Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Bobby Labonte by 1.115 seconds in the Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400 at Richmond. It is the most laps Stewart has led in a Cup race.(NASCAR.com)

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NASCAR History: Sept. 12 -- 1987: Mark Martin wins the first of a record five Nationwide Series races at Richmond. L.D. Ottinger finishes second in the Freelander 200, and Geoffrey Bodine is third.(NASCAR.com)

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NASCAR History: Sept. 13 -- 1970: Richard Petty leads 488 of 500 laps to win the Capital City 500 at Richmond (Va.) Fairgrounds Raceway by two laps on Bobby Allison. It starts a streak of seven consecutive wins at Richmond for the King on the .542-mile track. From September 1970 through February 1975, Petty wins nine of the 10 Cup races at the track.(NASCAR.com)

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NASCAR History: Sept. 15 -- 1968: Richard Petty wins the Hillsboro 150, the final Cup race on the nine-tenths of a mile dirt track of Orange Speedway in Hillsboro, N.C. The track was the site of 32 Cup races and Petty, his father, Lee, and Buck Baker each won a series-high three races at Orange.(NASCAR.com)

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Sep 14, 1952 - Rookie driver Larry Mann of Yonkers, New York, became the first driver fatality in NASCAR history when his Hudson Hornet overturned on lap 211 of a 250-lap race at Langhorne Speedway in Pennsylvania on September 14, 1952. Mann's car was painted green, a long-time taboo among racers.

(http://books.google.com/books?id=UPunuMHf4jgC&pg=PA50&sig=R_wtZ3p6qP2SX9Uk-vrUI0inUMw#v=onepage&q=&f=false )

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Also Talladega Speedway in Talladega, Alabama opened on September 14, 1969.

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NASCAR History: Sept. 17 -- 1988: Driving a car owned by his brother Darrell, Michael Waltrip wins his first Nationwide Series race, beating Tommy Ellis by .685 seconds in the Grand National 200 at Dover. Morgan Shepherd finishes third.(NASCAR.com)

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NASCAR History: Sept, 18 -- 2004: Ricky Craven, a two-time winner in the Cup Series, makes his debut in the Truck Series, finishing 31st in the Sylvania 200 at New Hampshire. His day ends after 82 laps because of an accident. Travis Kvapil gets the win, followed by Jack Sprague and Johnny Benson Jr.(NASCAR.com)

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NASCAR History: Sept. 19 -- 1999: In his 180th Cup Series start, Joe Nemechek wins the Dura Lube/Kmart 300 at New Hampshire for his first Cup victory. He wins under caution; Tony Stewart is second and Bobby Labonte third.(NASCAR.com)

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NASCAR History: 1954: A season-high 64 cars are in the field for a 250-lap race on Langhorne (Pa.) Speedway's 1-mile dirt track. Not surprisingly, all 250 laps are led by drivers starting in the top four with polesitter Herb Thomas leading 163 laps and getting the win. Two other drivers finish on the lead lap, second-place Lee Petty and Hershel McGriff. Also not surprisingly, many cars don't finish the race. Twenty-nine cars are not running at the finish.(NASCAR.com)(9-26-2009)

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NASCAR History: Sept. 27 -- 1981: In his fifth start, 22-year-old Mark Martin records his first top-five, finishing third in the Old Dominion 500 at Martinsville. After the first race of the 2009 Chase, Martin has 253 top-fives and 40 wins. He has the eighth-most top-fives in the history of the Cup Series and the fourth-most in the modern era (since 1972). Richard Petty has the most top-fives, 555, and Dale Earnhardt has the most in the modern era, 281. (NASCAR.com)(9-27-2009)

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NASCAR History: 1958: Joe Eubanks wins a 110-lap race at Orange Speedway in Hillsboro, N.C., for his only Cup Series victory in 159 starts from 1950 to 1961. Eubanks leads the final 12 laps on the .90-mile dirt track, and Doug Cox finishes second, the only other car on the lead lap. Buck Baker is third, one lap back. For his career, Eubanks finishes in the top 10 81 times, 37 times in the top five, and wins four poles.(NASCAR.com)(9-28-2009)

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Southland Speedway, a harrowing one-mile dirt track in Raleigh, staged the first lighted "superspeedway" race on September 19, 1953.

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Article date:September 20, 1995



Ernie Irvan will return to NASCAR racing Saturday, 13 months 3 days after a crash nearly killed him.
"It seems like it's been about 10 years," Irvan said in a news conference at the Charlotte racing complex of Robert Yates, owner of his Winston Cup car.
Irvan said his first race would be Saturday in Martinsville, Va., in NASCAR's new SuperTruck series. Irvan also is entered in the Sept. 30 truck race in North Wilkesboro, N.C. The following day, Irvan plans to make his return to Winston Cup racing by competing in the Tyson Holly Farms 400 in North Wilkesboro.

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Sept. 26th, 2002


Earnhardt Jr. concealed injury to avoid distraction


A hard hit in an April accident left Dale Earnhardt Jr. with a severe concussion and a bad case of paranoia -- if word got out that his head was bothering him, Earnhardt was certain it would ruin his career.

CNNSI.com - NASCAR Plus - Earnhardt Jr. takes Kansas City pole - Saturday September 28, 2002 02:34 AM

CNNSI.com - NASCAR Plus - Dale Jr. admits suffering concussion - Thursday September 26, 2002 11:53 AM