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  1.   Spen posted:
  05.27.2012 - 7:08 pm
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First career top five for Junior Johnson.


  2.   Dan Jackett posted:
  07.30.2015 - 9:21 am
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Was the race caution-free, or was the high average speed because of the
track being measured a tenth of a mile longer than actual?


  3.   Scott B posted:
  07.30.2015 - 4:38 pm
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Don't know for sure, but I would guess caution-free. The attrition was
very low for the era, and it looks like the cars that did drop out could
have exited the track without a yellow.

Extremely rare for the average race speed to be faster than the pole speed!


  4.   nascar_vd / racing-reference.info posted:
  09.14.2015 - 10:21 am
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Note: Point standings after this race:
1) Lee Petty = 3466 points
2) Buck Baker = 3304
3) Dick Rathman = 3156
4) Herb Thomas = 3044
5) Joe Eubanks = 2590
6) Al Keller = 1910
7) Ralph Liguori = 1834
8) Bill Blair = 1578
9) Curtis Turner = 1554
10) Dave Terrell = 1450
11) Laird Bruner = 1366
12) Gober Sosebee = 1226
13) Jim Paschal = 1218
14) Hershel McGriff = 1156
15) Blackie Pitt = 1084
16) Jimmie Lewallen = 990
17) Elton Hildreth = 854
18) Ray Duhigg = 724
19) Donald Thomas = 692
20) Ed Skinner = 618


  5.   Graham Clayton posted:
  01.28.2016 - 3:52 am
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Does anyone know the reason why Walt Flinchum used number #711 instead
of the #49 and #52 that he used for the other seven races that he
competed in during the 1954 season?


  6.   MSportRev posted:
  12.06.2019 - 1:28 pm
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DNQ:

Bob Whelborn suffered an engine failure in qualifying.

Source: Ultimate Racing History


  7.   Jimmie4life posted:
  07.17.2020 - 10:32 pm
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I have a question: What's the oldest NASCAR vehicle to enter in a race
in terms of years after it was produced? The '49 Hudson was made 5 years
earlier than this race was run, so it must be one of the oldest to ever
race.


  8.   Canadianfan posted:
  07.17.2020 - 11:21 pm
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In 1981 at Riverside in January the old GEN2 cars were allowed to race
with the new GEN3's. If anyone broke that record or at least tied it, it
was in that race. Most of the cars in that race were built in 1976 or 1977.


  9.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.18.2020 - 12:08 am
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The Truck Series has seen some older trucks. For instance the
Superspeedway truck "Freak" was built in 1998 won several races at
Daytona for Bobby Hamilton racing, starting in 2001 at Daytona, and was
still being raced into 2018 before it was wrecked for good at Talladega
with Chris Fontaine driving it. Jeremy Clements famous upset win at Road
America in 2017 in the NASCAR Xfinity Series came driving a car that was
first built nine years earlier in 2008.


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