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Byron won the 166-mile NASCAR Strictly Stock race on the sands of the 4.15-mile Daytona Beach and Road Course. There were 21 of the 28 starters running at the finish. Byron won the caution free race with an average speed of 80.883 mph and won with a gap of 1:51 lead over second-place finisher Tim Flock.
Charlotte Speedway was the site of NASCAR's first Strictly Stock Series (now NASCAR Cup Series) race on June 19, 1949. The Daytona Beach Road Course held the first race sanctioned by NASCAR in 1948. The track was a few miles west of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, on Little Rock Road. It was owned by Carl C. Allison Sr. and his wife, Catherine ...
Lee Petty: 1954-02 Daytona Beach and Road Course: Daytona Beach, Florida: 13 May 23 42 Lee Petty: 1954-13 Sharon Speedway: Hartford, Ohio: 14 June 25 42 Lee Petty: 1954-20 Monroe County Fairgrounds: Rochester, New York: 15 July 11 42 Lee Petty: 1954-25 Grand Rapids Speedrome: Grand Rapids, Michigan: 16 August 13 42 Lee Petty: 1954-28 Southern ...
1949. The first NASCAR Strictly Stock Series race was held in 1949 at the Charlotte Speedway. The second race on the series schedule was held at Daytona Beach in July; 28 cars raced, including Curtis Turner, Buck Baker, Bob Flock, Fonty Flock, Marshall Teague, Herb Thomas, and second-place finisher Tim Flock. Red Byron scored for his fourth win ...
Lee Arnold Petty (March 14, 1914 – April 5, 2000) [2] was an American stock car racing driver who competed during the 1950s and 1960s. He is the patriarch of the Petty racing family.
Flock won a 100-mile race at Lakewood Speedway Park in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1940. He raced on dirt tracks in Georgia. He qualified in the pole position for the July 27, 1941, race at the Daytona Beach Road Course beside Roy Hall. Flock took the early lead before he and Hall got together in the south turn. Flock rolled and landed upside down in ...
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The two drivers won 8 races in their respective Hudsons, but Flock came out on top at the end, despite another late season charge from Thomas. He returned with a vengeance in 1953 and dominated the entire season, winning a series-best twelve races en route to becoming the first two-time series champion.