1982 Pet Dairy 150 - NASCAR Race

Name of Race:	1982 Pet Dairy 150
Name of Track:	Bristol Motor Speedway
Date:	August 27th

Bristol Motor Speedway could very easily have opened in 1961 under a different name. The first proposed site for the speedway was in Piney Flats but, according to Carl Moore, who built the track along with Larry Carrier and R.G. Pope, the idea met local opposition. So the track that could have been called Piney Flats International Speedway, was built five miles down the road on Highway 11-E in Bristol.

A Smaller Charlotte Motor Speedway

The land, upon which Bristol Motor Speedway is built, used to be a dairy farm. Larry Carrier and Carl Moore traveled to Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1960 to watch a race and it was then that they decided to build a speedway in northeast Tennessee. However, they wanted a smaller model of CMS, something with a more intimate setting and opted to erect a half-mile facility instead of mirroring the 1.5-mile track in Charlotte.

Work began on what was then called Bristol International Speedway in 1960 and it took approximately one year to finish. Carrier, Moore and Pope scratched many ideas for the track on envelopes and brown paper bags.

Purchase of the land on which Bristol Motor Speedway now sits, as well as initial construction of the track, cost approximately $600,000. The entire layout for Bristol Motor Speedway covered 100 acres and provided parking for more than 12,000 cars. The track itself was a perfect half-mile, measuring 60 feet wide on the straightaways, 75 feet wide in the turns and the turns were banked at 22 degrees.

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1982 Pet Dairy 150 NASCAR Race Results

Below are the race results for 1982 Pet Dairy 150, in order of finishing place.

Fin	Driver	Num	Start	Money	Laps	Status	Sponsor
1	Jack Ingram	11	6	$3,000	150	running	Jack Ingram
2	Butch Lindley	1	0	$1,750	150	running	Emanuel Zervakis
3	Morgan Shepherd	98	1	$1,500	150	running	Ed Whitaker
4	Tommy Ellis	36	0	$2,200	148	running
5	Bosco Lowe	27	0	$1,100	148	running
7	Glenn Jarrett	24	0	$800	148	running
8	Larry Pearson	21	0	$700	146	running	David Pearson
9	Sam Ard	0	0	$1,100	143	running	Howard Thomas
10	Tommy Houston	6	0	$1,000	143	running
11	Rick Mast	22	0	$450	141	running
12	Tommy Hilbert	2	0	$400	141	running
13	Ronnie Davidson	96	0	$345	136	running
14	Don Browning	65	0	$290	133	running
16	Steve Jarvis	87	0	$270	120	running
18	Allen Applegate	20	0	$260	96	running
20	Jeff Berry	18	0	$250	87	running
22	Ronnie Hopkins	55	0	$240	78	running
26	Dale Jarrett	32	0	$220	36	dnf	Horace Isenhower
27	Phil Parsons	28	0	$715	23	rear end	Johnny Hayes
28	Mike Goins	8	0	$210	19	engine
29	Chip Lain	37	0	$205	2	crash
30	Dale Earnhardt	15	0	$200	2	crash