Jeff Burton's win at the 1997 NASCAR Winston Cup Series event, 'Interstate Batteries 500', was a special one because that was the first-ever race at the Texas Motor Speedway.

Larry McClure, who was co-owner of the Morgan-McClure Motorsports team in the NASCAR Cup Series from 1983 to 2007, passed ...

By far the lowest point of the season, though, came during the 1997 Mountain Dew Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Earnhardt entered the annual Labor Day Weekend race at the track Too Tough To Tame ...