STS Motorsports, Inc. was founded in 2005 by Rob Marsden, and was started as a grass roots movement to reopen the closed North Wilkesboro Speedway which was closed nine years prior. Armed with only a petition and a simple website, Marsden soon began having other volunteers who shared the vision of a new life at North Wilkesboro Speedway. Lately, we have been avidly researching the facilities and its people, its races trying to document all that we can of the track and its history. While our current direction has changed, our original ideas have not. We still are avidly looking for a buyer or buyers of the track who would reopen it for racing which the people of Wilkes County still miss. One day we hope we can produce all of our goals, including the reopening of the track. Until that fine day comes along we will do our best to preserve the glory of North Wilkesboro Speedway.

The two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at New Hampshire International Speedway are largest spectator sporting events in New England with 101,000 guests in attendance at each race. NHIS is located one hour from Boston, two hours from Portland, Maine, and Providence, R.I., and is easily accessible from Vermont and Canada. Length: 1 Mile, Banking: 12 Degrees, Track Shape: Semi-Flat Oval

One of the most historic tracks in racing is also one of the most popular among drivers, fans and the media. Year after year, Richmond International Raceway puts on the best short track show, and arguably the best racing anywhere. Why? Richmond’s unique, ¾-mile layout produces tremendous side-by-side racing, yet drivers obtain high enough speeds to give it a superspeedway feel. That rare combination still allows for the beating and banging that fans love, with the drivers’ skill playing a major role in winning. In the words of NASCAR NEXTEL Cup icon Rusty Wallace, those characteristics help make racing at the track and the experience fans have while visiting, simply “perfect.” Length: 3/4 Mile, Banking: 14 Degrees, Track Shape: D-Shape Oval

Over the years, Thompson Int'l Speedway has attracted some of racing’s biggest names and has been home to many of today’s racing stars. One of the first to test the waters in the major leagues of the sport was Pete Hamilton. He established himself very quickly by winning the Daytona 500 while driving for Petty Enterprises. Geoffrey Bodine and Greg Sacks became Daytona champions after several years of plying their trade at Thompson. Steve Park and others have gained national prominence following successful years at this famed Connecticut speedway. Length: 5/8 Mile, Banking: 26 Degrees, Track Shape: High Banked Oval

The list of drivers who have raced at the speedway is like a who's who of auto racing; Richard and Lee Petty, David Pearson, Curtis Turner, Bobby Allison, Joe Weatherly, the late Neil Bonnett, Darrell Waltrip, Michael Waltrip, Morgan Shephard, Ned Jarrett, Junior Johnson, and the late Tiny Lund. Lund raced at the speedway the night before he was tragically killed at Talladega Superspeedway in 1975. " I can remember Tiny leaving the track with a big jug of my mom's chili under each arm," recalls Dick Gore, promoter of the speedway.

Believing that Bill France's fledgling NASCAR just might catch on, Harold Brasington set out in the fall of 1949 to shape a 1.25-mile speedway on land that had once produced peanuts and cotton. Brasington himself often manned the controls of bulldozers and grading equipment. His plan called for a true oval, but the racetrack's design had to be changed in order to satisfy the landowner, who did not want his nearby minnow pond disturbed. The west end of the track (Turns 3 and 4) was narrowed to accommodate the fishing hole, creating Darlington's distinctive egg-shaped design.

As NASCAR has grown, so has Martinsville Speedway. Martinsville Speedway ran its first NASCAR race on July 4, 1948. In 1949, Martinsville ran the sixth race in the series that eventually became the Cup Series. Martinsville Speedway opened in 1947 with 750 seats and has grown continuously over the years. But other than being paved in 1955, the track configuration has not changed since Red Byron won the inaugural event. The speedway is located three miles south of Martinsville, Va., and is the only original NASCAR-sanctioned track still running Cup Series events. Richard Petty remains the track's leading winner with 15 victories

The 3/8 mile track hosts Saturday night Late Models, INEX Legends, Mini Modifieds, Street Stocks, Bandeleros, and UCARS. The Late Models now run on 8-inch (200 mm) tires and there are a host of weight and carburetor rules depending on what type of motor is in the car. The track was built as a dirt track in 1952 and was paved in 1953. Old Dominion is also the birth place of the Late Model Stock Car, as this snippet of history found on the history page at ODS's Web Site tells us, "The Late Model Sportsman and Limited Sportsman divisions, along with some support classes ran until 1979, when track promoter Dick Gore came up with an idea for a class that would become one of the fastest growing divisions in NASCAR. " They said it would never work," says Gore, referring to the Late Model Stock Car division. But work it did as it became one of the most popular divisions, spreading throughout the country."