Lowe's 250

The Lowe's 250 is a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series stock car race held annually from 1949 to 1996 at the North Wilkesboro Speedway in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Given the region’s love of fast cars and illegal liquor, it’s no surprise that North Wilkesboro was one of the sport’s oldest tracks, hosting a NASCAR Modified Division race in the sanctioning body’s first season of 1948, adding Strictly Stock races when that series was launched a year later.

While many drivers loved racing at North Wilkesboro, expanding the sport into new and bigger markets in different parts of the country meant the track’s days were numbered as NASCAR planned to hit new markets in Texas, Las Vegas, Southern California and Chicago, among others.

North Wilkesboro Speedway was the site of so much throughout its four-plus decades as a part of NASCAR’s annual schedule. Close finishes and close calls; rivalries renewed and rivalries begun; and at least one finish that’s memorable because it wasn’t close at all.

The weekend of Sept. 27-29, 1996, was the final NASCAR race weekend at North Wilkesboro. The race on was held Saturday followed by Sunday’s NASCAR Winston Cup Series race, the Tyson Holly Farms 400.

North Wilkesboro Speedway will host a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race on Saturday, May 20, 2023, the day before hosting the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race on May 21.

The 2023 truck schedule was officially released Wednesday with as the new series sponsor, replacing Camping World.

As part of NASCAR’s 75th anniversary season, the trucks will race on the historic 0.625 mi short track, which hasn’t hosted a NASCAR event since 1996.

The trucks last raced at North Wilkesboro in 1996, when NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Mark Martin took the checkered flag.