NASCAR Buys Building: NASCAR has bought a building in Conover, NC for its first research-and-development field office. NASCAR officials said that the building, formerly owned by racer Dale Jarrett’s company, would be used as a safety-testing and competition center. The center has been planned for the past year and may be open by late summer(Winston Salem Journal) AND NASCAR has purchased Dale Jarrett’s former BGN shop in Hickory, NC, and officials plan to put a safety crew at that site. Todd Bodine said that crew would build and test cars to make them safer(Richmond Times Dispatch)(3-10-2001)
