NASCAR brings its All-Star Race to the North Carolina track on May 21.
Although the giant Daytona International Speedway had been open for six years and NASCAR’s march toward bigger tracks was accelerating, tiny and isolated North Wilkesboro and its local hero—the drawling, brawling Junior Johnson who drove race cars and hauled moonshine in equally talented ways—were ideal representatives of the sport.American Hero is Junior Johnson
Sitting on the hood of your car was a pretty good perch for watching racing at North Wilkesboro in 1949.“Sunday! Racing day! Sunday is no longer a big church day in the South. A man can’t very well go to eleven o’clock service and still expect to get to a two-o’clock stock-car race, unless he wants to get into the biggest traffic jam in the history of creation, and that goes for North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, same as Atlanta and Charlotte.
Now, 75 years after North Wilkesboro Speedway opened and almost 60 years after Wolfe’s article enhanced stock car racing’s national exposure, the old track will live again this weekend. Johnson grew up in the nearby Brushy Mountains and learned to drive fast by hauling illegal moonshine for his father. Some of those skills transferred to stock car racing, making Junior one of the stars of the sport’s pioneer years and one of the first five men to go into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. One of the speedway grandstands was designated the Junior Johnson Grandstand for the track’s revival.
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