1952 National Stock Car Series

1952 National Stock Car Series Season
Season
Races	40
Start Date	16 March
End Date	16 November
Awards
Special Event Winners
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The 1952 National Stock Car season was the third season of professional stock car racing in the United States. The season comprised of 40 races, beginning with the 7th Icebreaker Sweepstakes at Thompson International Speedway and concluding with the 1952 Turkey Bowl at Riverside Park Speedway.

The 1952 season is the last of the three seasons which traditionally make up the formation era of professional stock car racing.

Schedule

The 1952 schedule had a number of firsts for the series:

• The series would visit tracks multiple times in a season for the first time. Eight of the "original ten" tracks received a second date, with only Daytona and Rochester maintaining a single date.
• The series added a second street course at Bass Lake in Indiana, marking the first time the schedule had multiple road races.
• Five sanctioned events were held west of the Mississippi River, marking the first time the series held events farther west than Indiana.
• The first split dates were held, coinciding with some dates on the West Coast; these would mark the first time in series history that drivers would be unable to compete in every race during the season.
• Midweek dates first appeared on the schedule, as well as Saturday events.

Rd	Date	Race	Circuit	Location	Pole	Owner (Car)	Winner	Owner (Car)
1	March 16	1952 Icebreaker Sweepstakes	Thompson International Speedway	Thompson, CT
2	March 23	1952-02	Langhorne Speedway	Middletown Township, PA
3	March 30	1952-03	Langley Speedway	Langley, VA
4	April 6	1952-04	Bowman Gray Stadium	Winston-Salem, NC
5	April 20	1952-05	Knoxville Raceway	Knoxville, IA
6	April 27	1952-06	Streets of Bass Lake	Bass Lake, IN
7	May 4	1952-07	Columbus Motor Speedway	Columbus, OH
8	May 10	1952-08	Wall Township Speedway	Wall Township, NJ
9	May 11	1952-09	Flemington Fair Speedway	Flemington, NJ
10	May 18	1952-10	Seekonk Speedway	Seekonk, MA
11	May 21	1952-11	Beech Ridge Motor Speedway	Scarborough, ME
12	May 24	1952-12	Warwick Fairgrounds	Warwick, RI
13	May 24	1952-13	Roswell Motorsports Park	Roswell, NM
14	May 25	1952-14	Riverside Park Speedway	Agawam, MA
15	June 8	1952-15	Williams Grove Speedway	Mechanicsburg, PA
16	June 15	1952-16	Pulaski County Speedway	Fairlawn, VA
17	June 22	1952-17	North Wilkesboro Speedway	North Wilkesboro, NC
18	July 4	1952-18	Daytona Beach Street Course	Daytona Beach, FL
19	July 6	1952-19	St. Petersburg Bullring	St. Petersburg, FL
20	July 13	1952-20	Lakewood Speedway	Atlanta, GA
21	July 20	1952-21	Nashville Raceway	Nashville, TN
22	July 27	1952-22	Greenville-Pickens Speedway	Greenville-Pickens, SC
23	August 2	1952-23	Monroe County Fairgrounds	Rochester, NY
24	August 3	1952-24	Niagara Dirt Park	Lockport, NY
25	August 10	1952-25	Oswego Speedway	Oswego, NY
26	August 17	1952-26	Syracuse Mile	Syracuse, NY
27	August 17	1952-27	Portland Speedway	Portland, OR
28	September 3	1952-28	Langhorne Speedway	Middletown Township, PA
29	September 7	1952-29	Columbus Motor Speedway	Columbus, OH
30	September 10	1952-30	Winchester Speedway	Winchester, IN
31	September 14	1952-31	Port Huron Dirt Colosseum	Port Huron, MI
32	September 24	1952-32	Truckee River Raceway	Reno, NV
33	September 28	1952-33	San Fernando Speedway	San Fernando, CA
34	October 11	1952-34	New London-Waterford Speedbowl	Waterford, CT
35	October 12	1952-35	Thompson International Speedway	Thompson, CT
36	October 19	1952-36	Flemington Fair Speedway	Flemington, NJ
37	November 2	1952-37	Bowman Gray Stadium	Winston-Salem, NC
38	November 9	1952-38	Seekonk Speedway	Seekonk, MA
39	November 13	1952-39	Warwick Fairgrounds	Warwick, RI
40	November 16	1952 Turkey Bowl	Riverside Park Speedway	Agawam, MA

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