[Adam Petty in his car]

Photograph of Adam Petty in his car at the DIRECTV 500 Winston Cup race held at Texas Motor Speedway on April 2, 2000. He wears a red and black jumpsuit and adjusts something on the side of his head as he looks out from his car's window. The vehicle is primarily red at its top and black along its side and has logos like those of Hot Wheels, Lucky Charms, Coca-Cola, and Nascar decorating its side. A large white "45" outlined in red fills space under Petty's window on the car's side.
Date: April 2, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aerial view of NASCAR Winston Cup drivers racing]

Aerial photograph of NASCAR Winston Cup drivers racing before the DIRECTV 500 race held at Texas Motor Speedway on April 2, 2000. The bottom third of the photo is filled by cozens of stands packed with people watching the race below them, only a tall fence lien separating the onlookers from the road. The middle third of the photo is occupied by the racing circuit, its roads wrapping around large patches of grass with logos like that of DIRECTV, Albertsons, and Sprint painted onto the grass. The cars of the race all speed along the part of the circuit closest to the stands of people watching the vehicles. The top third of the photo is filled with parked vehicles including large trucks and cars, plus a lien of tents that sit in front of the far side of the racing circuit. According to the label on the back of the photo, Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race, making it his first Winston Cup victory.
Date: April 2, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Angie Athanas (left) and Jeff Gordon (right) eating "Jeff's Mint Chocolate Speedway" ice cream]

Photograph of Angie Athanas (left) and Jeff Gordon (right) eating "Jeff's Mint Chocolate Speedway" ice cream at the DIRECTV 500 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Athanas has light, shoulder-length curly hair and wears a silver necklace, black shirt, and white lab coat. She closes her eyes as she lifts a white spoon to her mouth with her right arm. On the left side of her lab coat near the collar is a white tag with red text while on the right side of the coat is a red and black ice cream tub icon with text in it. Gordon has short black hair and wears a black hat with the Du Pont and Du Pont Racing logos on it, a black shirt with a white-lined collar and the Pepsi logo, a black belt, a watch on his left arm, and blue jeans. He holds in his right hand a white tub of Edy's ice cream, its sides patterned with gold fleur-de-lis while its front has the Edy's logo and the name of the ice cream flavor. Gordon's left hand holds a black spoon that he's raised to his mouth. Behind Gordon and Athanas is a wall with the Edy's …
Date: April 2, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Dale Earnhardt and son Dale Jr. celebrating]

Photograph of Dale Earnhardt and son Dale Jr. celebrating Jr.'s win at the DIRECTV 500 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. The Earnhardts both wear red ballcaps with the text "Bud" and "King of beers" on them in white along with red, black, and white jumpsuits with a variety of logos on them. The father and son embrace as two men with black ballcaps, one in a red jacket and the other in a blue jacket with a headset, stand in front of them. A group of men in red ballcaps crowd in the background behind the Earnhardts.
Date: April 2, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Dale Earnhardt Jr. celebrating]

Photograph of Dale Earnhardt Jr. celebrating his win at the DIRECTV 500 race held at Texas Motor Speedway on April 2, 2000. He wears a red and black jumpsuit with the text "Bud" repeated across it in white and stands with his right arm raised as he appears to yell triumphantly. Red, white, and blue confetti fill the air, falling towards the crowd around Earnhardt's who raise their hands in fists or hold out microphones. One microphone has the CBS name and logo on it. To the left of Earnhardt's legs is a partially visible gold trophy. In the background behind the crowd is a blurry gold, red, and white wall.
Date: April 2, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jeff Gordon, Bill Elliott, and Jerry Nadeau wrecking]

Photograph of Jeff Gordon (#24), Bill Elliott (#94), and Jerry Nadeau (#25) wrecking during the DIRECTV 500 race held at Texas Motor Speedway on April 2, 2000. Elliott's car (#94) tilts upwards off the road as Gordon's car (#24) runs towards the underside of Elliott's car. Another car sits behind the rear of Gordon's car. In the distance beyond Elliott's car (#94) are two more cars driving towards the wreck in the foreground. Nadeau's car (#25) sits further into the photo, close to a short wall running alongside the road, and has a crumpled rear end. Smoke fills the empty areas of the road. According to a label on the back of the photo, the crash depicted was one of 12 cautions that occurred during the race, which resulted in Nadeau (#25) not completing the race.
Date: April 2, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Terry Labonte leading a race]

Photograph of Terry Labonte leading a race during the DIRECTV 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 2, 2000. Multi-colored cars, the leading one primarily yellow in design, approach a white checkered line painted across the width of the road. Two white striped lines divide the road lengthwise into three lanes. A short white wall across the road has "Texas" painted on it twice near the road's finish line. A tall line of fencing made of poles that slightly curve towards the road sits along the top of the short wall. Towards the left edge of the photo, a white box with "DIRECTV" written on it with a blue logo sits on a wooden post behind the fence line. A large crowd is packed into seats beyond the fencing, all turned to watch the cars on the road below. On the physical back of the photo is a watermarked pattern of text identifying the paper as belonging to the brand Kodak. There is also a label on the back describing Terry Labonte taking the lead towards the checkered lien as a green flag is dropped, though Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race.
Date: April 2, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Terry Labonte posing with a helmet]

Photograph of Terry Labonte posing with a helmet at the DIRECTV 500 Winston Cup race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Labonte wears a black ballcap with the text "Spring" on it in white and a gray short-sleeved shirt. The helmet he holds is black with a large white stripe along its bottom edge and a grid of thin blue and white lines across its top and sides. The red-on-white text "Simpson" occupies the top right corner of the helmet's visor. Behind Labonte are two walls that each have the red text "Nascar Winston Cup Series" in large letters on white and red backgrounds, above which runs a gold stripe with checkered ends and red text. Above the gold stripes on both walls are multiple copies of the Texas Motor Speedway name and logo.
Date: April 2, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Crew members pushing Ron Hornaday's car down pit road amidst rain]

Photograph of crew members pushing Ron Hornaday's car down pit road during a rain delay at the NASCAR Busch Series Albertson's 300 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Hornaday's car is blue and yellow with numerous logos across its side including those of 76, Simpson, Clevite, Penske, and Goodyear. A large white "3" sits in the middle of the car's side, between groups of logos. Standing in front of the vehicle is one of the crew members carrying a black and white umbrella, leaning against the car's windows while looking out over the wet road. The crew member, plus two other men at the back of the car, wear blue jackets, pants, hats, and headsets along with black shoes. Their clothes, similar to the car, have multiple logos decorating them. One crew member at the vehicle's rear covers himself with a blue tarp that extends across the roof and back end of the car while the third blue-clad crew member crouches behind the car to push it. Pushing alongside the third man is a fourth crew member dressed in a yellow jacket. White dashed lines run along the wet road next to the crew members and the car while a …
Date: April 1, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jason Leffler hugging a member of his crew]

Photograph of Jason Leffler hugging a member of his crew at the NASCAR Busch Series Albertson's 300 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Leffler wears a black and white long-sleeved top along with an earpiece and leans forward while smiling. The crew member he hugs wears a black hat with a red and white logo on it and a green, white, and black shirt with a white MBNA Motorsports logo outlined in yellow at its top. Walking towards the duo, from the left, is another crew member in a black hat with a green MBNA logo on it, a green shirt with MBNA on it in white, a black jacket, glasses, and a black headset. To the right of Leffler and his crew members sits his car, its top reflecting sunlight and its rear end green in color with a yellow stripe along its bottom edge. At the center of the car's back end is a white MBNA logo, to the right of which is the number 18 in white. To the left and right of the car are crowds of people watching Leffler, multiple of whom wear large cards on lanyards. One man to the right of the car …
Date: April 1, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jason Leffler posing with a helmet]

Photograph of Jason Leffler posing with a helmet at the NASCAR Busch Series Albertson's 300 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Leffler's helmet is black with thin white and blue grids across its surface and a waving Texas flag on its side. Also on the helmet's side is the white text "Pole Days March 30-31, 2000" and the logos for Sprint, Texas Motor Speedway, and Simpson. Leffler himself is wearing a black ballcap with the Sprint logo and red text on it, plus a black and white jumpsuit with a variety of logos on it like those of Goodyear, Pontiac, Hot Rod Magazine, and MBNA Motorsports. Behind Leffler is a black vehicle with "Pontiac" spelled vertically down its side in white letters. Behind the automobile is a red wall with multiple white Sprint logos on it along with a cut-off blue and yellow image. At the top of the wall is a gold stripe with red text, above which is a white stripe with the Texas Motor Speedway name and logo in it.
Date: April 1, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Mark Martin celebrating]

Photograph of Mark Martin celebrating his win at the NASCAR Busch Series Albertson's 300 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Popcorn rains onto Martin and his red, orange, and yellow car from the top left corner of the photo, piling on his vehicle's windshield and roof. Also sitting on the car's roof are two green Gatorade bottles, behind which a small board with the Busch and Nascar logos on it sits. Martin stands with one leg still in his car and wears a black hat with colorful text on it and a black and yellow jumpsuit decorated by multiple logos like those of Ford Racing, Busch, and Nascar. "Dixie" also appears in black text on Martin's shoulder and white text on his chest. In the background behind Martin and his car are a group of men in similar yellow and black jumpsuits that appear to be celebrating as well. Behind these men is a red wall with very large logos on it.
Date: April 1, 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library