But Saturday, 50-year-old Mark Martin took home the Southern 500 in Darlington, South Carolina. But what about the Northwest? Why are there are no tracks here?

Former Nascar driver Kyle Petty was in Richland Friday for a charity event and tons of fans showed up to greet him.

There was a plan to get a track in rural Kitsap County but so far state legislators haven't gotten behind the idea.

"We've tried to come up here 5 or 6 times but every time we come up here, the people you guys vote into office seem to vote us out of the states," said Petty. "That's not our fault, so don't blame us because you guys have great drivers. You have Kasey Kahne, you had Chad Little, you got Greg Biffle."