What Else Goes On At Lowes Motor Speedway When NASCAR Isn There?
The facility at Lowe’s Motor Speedway is considered one of the busiest sports venues in the country, with typically over 380 events a year. Along with many races, the speedway also hosts the Food Lion Auto Fair twice a year, one of the nation’s largest car shows. Movies and commercials have been filmed there, notably “Days of Thunder”. The track is also a popular tourist stop and testing grounds. On May 26, 2006, the Pixar movie “Cars” premiered at the speedway, on several monster screens. The feature of the April 2005 Spring Food Lion Auto Fair at the speedway was a popular sculpture exhibition, Jim Gary’s Twentieth Century Dinosaurs. It is a menagerie of Garysauruses, all life-sized, and constructed of automobile parts. A special tent housed the heavily attended exhibition and a huge Gary sculpture, over forty feet long, was displayed at the entrance to the raceway during the entire fair. H. A. “Hummpy” Wheeler and the speedway then sponsored the funding for the traveling sculpture e
