Bowman Gray Stadium, the longest-running weekly track in racing history, is the site for the Cup Series’ preseason Clash on Sunday night. The legendary quarter-mile track near downtown Winston-Salem — among the smallest venues to host NASCAR races — is set for its first NASCAR race in 54 years.

Chase Elliott, who raced at Bowman Gray Stadium in a NASCAR K&N event more than a decade ago, earned the pole for Sunday’s Cook Out Clash at the historic venue by winning the first heat race, while Chris Buescher claimed the outside front row by emerging victorious in the second;

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.