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NASCAR Cup Series at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway

motor race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ139995867 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stock car races in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series were held at the Nashville International Raceway in Nashville, Tennessee from 1958 to 1984.

July race

The Pepsi 420 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series stock car race held at Fairgrounds Speedway from 1958 to 1984.

Past winners

1960, 1961, & 1968: Race shortened due to rain.

1963: Race shortened due to impending darkness.

Multiple winners (drivers)

Multiple winners (manufacturers)

May race

The Coors 420 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series stock car race held at Nashville International Raceway. It was held annually from 1959 to 1984.

Past winners

*1974: Race shortened due to energy crisis.

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The public source identifies “NASCAR Cup Series at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway” as motor race. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around NASCAR, Series and Nashville.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1984, 1960, 1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with NASCAR, Series and Nashville providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “NASCAR Cup Series at Nashville Fairgrounds 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.