I was stunned by the enormity of the place. True, I had been to Asheville Speedway with my uncle to see Ned Setzer race on the short track, but that experience in no way prepared me for the magnitude ...

Janet Guthrie heard the chant from some of the Charlotte Motor Speedway fans when she walked onto the track for the first time, in May 1976. Following a last-minute flurry of unlikely events, Guthrie ...

Janet Guthrie heard the chant from some of the Charlotte Motor Speedway fans when she walked onto the track for the first time, in May 1976. Following a last-minute flurry of unlikely events, Guthrie ...

Janet Guthrie stands in front of the No. 68 racecar that Charlotte Motor Speedway officials helped her secure so she could drive in the 1976 World 600. She would finish 15th, beating future hall of ...