This is a page of interesting NASCAR facts. Some known some are not known. If you have any interesting facts let me know.

• Did you know...On March 11, Kevin Harvick's first win on the 4th race of the season in the number 29 car. He started in the number 5 position and finished in the number 1 position. 4/29/51 was Dale Earnhardt's birthday.

• Did you know...that Dale Earnhardt's first car was PINK. He wanted the car to be the same as the roof which was an apricot color. The paint was mixed and then the car was painted. When it dried it was pink. Dale at the time didn't have enough money to repaint it so it stayed pink.

• Did you know...That Chad Little has a law degree.

• Did you know...That in 1980, Richard Petty broke his neck in a crash at Pocono, and didn't miss a race.

• Did you know...Stanton Barrett is a well know Hollywood stuntman who has worked in nearly 100 movie and TV shows.

• Did you know...Lee Petty once protested a race against his son Richard Petty and won!

• Did you know...That Ryan Newman once had a high school history teacher who gave him extra credit for winning a race.

• Did you know...Dale Jarrett once was consider pursuing a career as a Pro Golfer.

• Did you know...Kyle Petty once signed a record deal.

• Did you know...That Richard Petty has scored Daytona 500 victories in four different makes of cars: Plymouth, Dodge, Olds, and Buick.

• Did you know...That Derrike Cope was an all-star college baseball player.

• Did you know...Sixty cars started the 1973 Daytona 500.

• Did you know...Rick Mast sold a cow to pay for his first race car.

• Did you know...At Pocono in 1991, a caution was called for a chicken on the track. NASCAR officials investigated and found no FOWL play.

• Did you know...That while qualifying for the Koolers 300 Michael Waltrip hit a seagull and yet still qualified seventh. (Don't worry I wasn't going to use the Fowl play again. I don't have that much GULL). I bet you could SEA that coming.

• Did you know...Junior Johnson used to have a chicken for a passenger while he was racing.

• Did you know...Benny Parsons was once a cab driver in Detroit.

• Did you know...Former car owner Don Bierschwale was a funeral director.

• Did you know...That Geoffery Bodine helped design the Bobsleigh for the USA. He helped the US to a fourth in the two man Bobsleigh, and a Silver & Bronze in the four men Bobsleigh. Geoffery helped the womens Bobsleigh to a GOLD at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

• Did you know...Cale Yarborough at aage 17, filed a false birth Certificate with NASCAR and drive briefley in the 1957 Southern 500 before being found out and was then ejected from the race.

• Did you know ...Kyle Petty won the first race he ever entered. (The 1979 ARCA Daytona 200)

• Did you know...In 1967 Richard Petty on 10 consecutive races for a total of 27 wins for that season.

• Did you know...Red Byron was the First Winston Cup Champion in 1949.

• Did you know...Tim Flock had a pet monkey named "Jacko" that rode with him in races.

• Did you know...That Champion B. Bill Rexford won only one race his entire career.

• Did you know...Buck Baker worked as a Bus Driver before racing full time. (Now tell me as a NASCAR fan you wouldn't want to be on that bus.)

• Did you know...That Richard Petty's Car was displayed at the Smithsonian Institution.

• Did you know...That Dick Berggeren has a Ph.D in Psychology

• Did you know...That Driver Jim Sauter and his wife Penny have 11 children.

Source from "The Great American Stock Car Racing Trivia Book" by Dave & Matt Lindsey.

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