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NASCAR Busch Series at Nazareth Speedway

NASCAR Busch Series race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ5588311
Source-derived summary

Stock car races in the now-NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series were held at Nazareth Speedway in Nazareth, Pennsylvania between 1988 to 2004, after the owners, International Speedway Corporation, closed the facility. The race was replaced with a race (currently known as Mission 200 at Watkins Glen) at Watkins Glen, another ISC-owned track.

After the closure of the track, the O'Reilly Series would return to racing in Pennsylvania when Pocono Raceway held its inaugural O'Reilly Series event, the Pocono Green 250 in 2016.

Past winners

1999: Race shortened due to darkness after a five-hour rain delay.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2004, 2016, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, NASCAR, Busch and Series is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from NASCAR Busch Series at Nazareth Speedway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.