NASCAR Cup Series season got off to a banger of a start, as the sports best took to the famed Bowman Gray Stadium track. The Winston-Salem track ended up being a terrific host for the annual Cook Out Clash.

NASCAR returns to its roots Sunday with the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, which last played host to a Cup Series event more than 50 years ago. After three years on a temporary short track at the Los Angeles Coliseum,

Ryan Blaney was a little kid the first time he raced at Bowman Gray Stadium and remembers it being the coolest thing he’d ever done in motorsports.