"The Nashville events are...
"The Nashville events are th highlights of the CRA Super Series schedule each season," says the CRA's Glen Luckett.
Going into the '70s, champion racer P.B. Crowell was ready to vacate the seat and become a car owner. Crowell went after a young man out of Owensboro, Kentucky, by the name of Darrell Waltrip. Over the next nine years, Waltrip captured two track titles and 55 feature wins. In all, counting NASCAR Winston Cup, USAC, and ASA races, Waltrip owns 67 Nashville checkered flags, easily the all-time wins leader.
In 1979 new management decided to run only special events and not host the weekly series. However, by 1980, the decision was made to resurrect the weekly schedule. In 1981 the first annual All-American 400 was held, and to this day that race is one of the major events on the Nashville schedule.
Second generation driver Sterling Marlin became the first driver to win three consecutive track titles. Before moving to the big leagues of NASCAR, Sterling claimed 51 Nashville victories.
NASCAR pulled its Cup date in 1985 and Geoffrey Bodine was the winner of that final event, his second career win, over a hard-charging Waltrip. Ten years later the track returned to NASCAR traveling series competition as the Busch Series was added, and later the Craftsman Truck Series. Both these divisions left in 2001 for the new Nashville Super Speedway.
In 2007 two NASCAR regional series were added, the NASCAR Camping World East Series and Southern Whelen Modifieds.