SBNation offers up a fascinating look at North Wilkesboro — most noted for its race track that hosted NASCAR back in the day — moonshine, and Junior Johnson. A bit of flavoring;
The spring and fall races at North Wilkesboro in 1996 would be the last.
Drivers shrugged. “It costs us thousands of dollars to take a team to a track like that,” Darrell Waltrip, then a driver and owner, told The Associated Press in 1996. “Even if they doubled the purse, it’s still hard to cover the expenses we incur when we go to little race tracks like that. We beat the cars all up, we get in fights, tempers flare, it’s just that kind of arena.
“We don’t want to leave our roots behind. We don’t want to forsake the people who helped us get where we are. But time marches on. I think we call it progress.”
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