Joe Weatherley pits at the Southeastern 500 in 1962.

Denny Hamlin is the first driver from Virginia since the late Joe Weatherly, in 1961, to win at Richmond and Martinsville in the same season. A North Carolinian, Richard Petty, pulled off the sweep six times: in 1967, ‘68, ‘70, ‘71, ‘72 and ‘73. Weatherly, the Cup (then Grand National) campion in 1962-63, was from Norfolk, Va. Hamlin is from Chesterfield.

 

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