Looks like the 2023 All Star race will be at North Wilkseboro.
I didn't mention at the time due to me wanting it be official. It is official now.
As far as the track itself, I am happy that race track gets any type of a NASCAR race considering it was a legendary short track back in the 1940s to the mid 1990s. This race track took years to get racing again after it went away after 1996.
I always hated how the late Bruton Smith and Bob Bahre handled North Wilkesboro, but I also didn't like what caused those to do that. People claimed in the past that the track being gone from NASCAR was one of the signs of NASCAR forgetting its roots back in the 1990s and 2000s.
What I am referring to is the founder of the race track died in 1995 from a stoke and those two bought the track just to get NASCAR dates on tracks they already own. Meaning they bought a race track just to close it down. Burton Smith wanted a date for his new Texas Motor Speedway track, but NASCAR refused to give it to him unless he buy an existing track with NASCAR dates and completely closes it down. What caused that was NASCAR wanted a limited amount of cup dates.
Bruton Smith was a co-owner of the race track due to him wanting Texas Motor Speedway getting NASCAR dates. Bob Bahre was a co-owner for giving New Hampshire Motor Speedway another NASCAR date. Bahre and Smith didn't exactly get along either and caused attempts to reopen the track not to happen before the late 2000s before closing again.
The community of North Wilkesboro wanted that track to have racing again, but it took years due to Bruton Smith. He wanted price to buy the track to be extremely expensive because he didn't want to reopen it.
The deal with North Wilkesboro was the cup side was losing battle for the track back in the 90s due to the track only having 36,000 fan capacity. Remember NASCAR was growing in the 90s and bigger race tracks were getting built in attendance capacity. The thing is the track in the 1990s had enough capacity to do truck series races and maybe Busch series after 1996.
