Over the past 20 years, more than a few stock car racing truisms have been bumped from the Book of Universal Motorsports Knowledge. Such as:

• Superspeedway racing is for afternoon hours only. Humpy Wheeler, a man willing to take a chance, proved this wrong in 1992 when he lit up Lowe's Motor Speedway and ran The Winston all-star race at night. The world followed. Now almost every track is lighted, and the ones that aren't want to be.

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