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1952 National Stock Car Series Season | |
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Season | |
Races | 40 |
Start Date | 16 March |
End Date | 16 November |
Awards | |
Special Event Winners | |
← Previous: 1951 | Next: 1953 → |
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.
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Schedule[edit | edit source]
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) |
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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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