Welcome to the Madhouse: NASCAR hits tiny Bowman Gray Stadium for rough-and-tumble racing

WINSTANLEY-SALEM, N.C. (AP) – Ryan Blaney was a little kid the first time he drove a car at Bowman Gray Stadium, he says he wasn’t more than 10 and he remembers it being the coolest thing he’s ever done in motorsports. He was in a Bandolero, a car for new drivers, and was racing before 17,000 fans, the biggest crowd he had ever seen as an athlete. The intensity was off the charts, on the track and in the crowd.