Janet Guthrie’s decision to attempt to qualify for and run in the 1976 World 600 made the front page of The Charlotte Observer on May 25, 1976, five days before the race. When Guthrie set out to ...

When future Hall of Fame driver Curtis Turner and future Hall of Fame track owner Bruton Smith built Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1959-1960, it was only the second superspeedway in the true South.

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 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 ...

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 ...