Video: Transforming Bristol into a dirt track

It’s not the first time ‘The Last Great Colosseum’ has been covered in dirt however. It was done at the turn of the century, but never before for a NASCAR event.
The last Cup race on dirt took place at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, N.C. on September 30th, 1970.
It took 23,000 cubic yards of dirt to make the Bristol Dirt Track a reality, battling through rain and snow in …Keep reading