NASCAR took a quantum leap on Aug. 6, 1994, when the first Brickyard 400 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A sellout crowd of 250,000 and a national television audience on ABC saw stock ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WJHL) — Bruton Smith, founder and executive chairman of Speedway Motorsports, died Wednesday of natural causes, according to a press release from the company. He was 95 years old.

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Rick Mast remembers just how big a deal the inaugural Brickyard 400 was, and that magnitude hit home the moment he put his No. 1 Ford on the pole position. The pride of Rockbridge ...

Editor's note: As the final week of Jeff Gordon's NASCAR Sprint Cup career continues, FOXSports.com is counting down the four-time champion's top five Sprint Cup wins. No. 1: 1994 Brickyard 400 at ...

Jeff Gordon had won the first-ever Cup race at the track in 1994 as an overflow crowd looked on. In 1995, race day was almost as much about watching the skies for rain as it was watching to see if ...

Long before he became a NASCAR icon with his 93 Cup Series victories, Jeff Gordon took the checkered flag at the inaugural Brickyard 400 just two days after his 23rd birthday. The now-retired No. 24 ...

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Rick Mast remembers just how big a deal the inaugural Brickyard 400 was, and that magnitude hit home the moment he put his No. 1 Ford on the pole position. The pride of Rockbridge ...