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Fonty Flock was first NASCAR winner at old Martinsville track
The Associated Press
Friday, Mar. 28, 2008
The Sprint Cup Series races at 22 tracks, of which only Martinsville was part of the sanctioning body’s first season in 1948.
Fonty Flock won the first NASCAR-sanctioned race at Martinsville, a July 4 event that featured mostly Modifieds and included NASCAR founder and president Bill France Sr. among the drivers. He finished eighth.
The track opened in 1947 – a year ahead of NASCAR’s birth – with just 750 seats. Now, there are 65,000 seats. NASCAR’s premier series began racing twice yearly at the track in 1950.
