Nashville Speedway was converted to a half-mile paved oval in 1957, when it began to be a NASCAR series track.

[2] The race took three hours, ten minutes, and nine seconds to successfully complete.

[2] Darrell Waltrip defeated Bobby Allison by more than one lap[3] in front of seventeen thousand and five hundred people.

As a result, he took oxygen while on top of his vehicle's hood and wasn't lucid enough to give a post-race interview.

Ronnie Thomas was supposed to make his debut on this track but got into a wreck and didn't get it fixed in time to qualify.