This weekend in Winston-Salem -- a little ways off from the tobacco farms and not far from the greater Charlotte area -- the Carolina winter will heat up and the earth will roar back to life with the beginning of a new year for NASCAR with its annual preseason exhibition race,

Between driver changes, crew chief swaps and rule adaptations, a lot’s changed over the NASCAR offseason. However, a lot has remained the same, specifically the mentality of all 36 chartered Cup Series drivers to win each and every week.

NASCAR returns to its roots Sunday with the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, which last played host to a Cup Series event more than 50 years ago. After three years on a temporary short track at the Los Angeles Coliseum,