A couple of posts have been started here in recent years about races on or near Easter including:
Easter Monday races at Peace Haven and Bowman Gray
http://racersreunion.com/community/forum/stock-car-racing-history/36221/who-remembers-easter-monday-races
Easter Monday 1976 at Trico
http://racersreunion.com/community/forum/stock-car-racing-history/22075/bobby-allison-ray-hendrick-raced-where-easter-monday-1976-any-rr-members-race-there-that-day
Easter Sunday racing pre-Winston era
http://racersreunion.com/community/forum/general/8273/so-what-if-the-grandstands-just-burned-down-weve-got-a-race-to-run-wheres-the-easter-bunny
Easter Sunday racing post-Winston era
http://racersreunion.com/community/forum/stock-car-racing-history/12949/history-of-easter-weekend-nascar-points-races
I've found two additional races held on Easter Sunday, 1961. One was a NASCAR GN race at Orange Speedway in Hillsboro. The race had been scheduled for March 19 but was rained out. Rather than run it the next day, Good Friday, or a non-Easter weekend date, the promoter scheduled it for Easter Sunday. The make-up race meant the GN drivers raced on 3 consecutive days - Saturday at Greenville-Pickens ( Tim Leeming RHM ), Easter Sunday at Hillsboro, and Easter Monday at Bowman Gray.
The promoter at Hillsboro? Big Bill France. The reason for re-scheduling the race for Easter? Most likely because of another race scheduled for Easter Sunday.
Bruton Smith scheduled a USAC stock car race for Concord Speedway on Easter Sunday. The event was to be the first time USAC's stock car division raced in the south. As expected, France and the NASCAR suits weren't thrilled with the idea. They said the right things - mostly - about not being threatened by Bruton's move. But they also let it be known that NASCAR drivers who opted to race in the USAC event risked being suspended from racing in NASCAR sanctioned events. This warning included Curtis Turner who originally said he intended to race in Bruton's event. France's folks let it be known Turner risked not being able to race in the World 600 at Charlotte - the very track of which he was president.
Both races went off as scheduled. Don White took the checkers in the USAC race, and Cotton Owens won in Hillsboro. I blogged more about the USAC race today here:
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2016/04/april-2-1961-usac-stock-cars-make.html
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updated by @tmc-chase: 04/02/17 10:04:09AM