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Circuits with the Most Fatalities

This list features the circuits with the highest fatality count in NASCAR history.

RANK

EVENT

FATALITIES

DRIVERS

1

Daytona International Speedway

8

Billy Wade (1965)

Talmadge Prince (1970)

Friday Hassler (1972)

Ricky Knotts (1980)

Bruce Jacobi (1983)

Neil Bonnett (1994)

Rodney Orr (1994)

Dale Earnhardt (2001)

2

Langhorne Speedway

3

Larry Mann (1952)

Frank Arford (1953)

John McVitty (1956)

3

Charlotte Motor Speedway

3

Fireball Roberts (1964)

Jimmy Pardue (1964)

Harold Kite (1965)

4

Memphis-Arkansas Speedway

2

Clint McHugh (1956)

Cotton Priddy (1956)

5

Darlington Raceway

2

Bobby Myers (1957)

Buren Skeen (1965)

6

Riverside International Raceway

2

Joe Weatherly (1964)

Billy Foster (1967)

7

Talladega Superspeedway

2

Larry Smith (1973)

Tiny Lund (1975)

8

Atlanta Motor Speedway

2

Terry Schoonover (1984)

Grant Adcox (1989)

9

North Wilkesboro Speedway

1

Lou Figaro (1954)

10

Michigan International Speedway

1

Rick Baldwin (1986)

11

Watkins Glen International

1

J. D. McDuffie (1991)

12

New Hampshire Motor Speedway

1

Kenny Irwin Jr. (2000)


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References

Wikipedia contributors, 'List of NASCAR fatalities', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NASCAR_fatalities#NASCAR_Cup_Series_fatalities [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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