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Overall, the race took five hours, sixteen minutes, and one second from the first green flag to the checkered flag. The average speed was 95.026 miles per hour (152.930 km/h) and the pole speed was 108.261 miles per hour (174.229 km/h). There were two cautions for four laps and the margin of victory was twenty-six seconds.
English: The council accepted the design for a new city flag of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on January 11, 1965.The design was chosen by a three-member flag committee. The flag design was modeled after the flag of the Commonwealth of Virginia, with a solid blue background with the official city seal placed in the center.
The chequered flag (or checkered flag) is displayed at the start-finish line to indicate that the race is officially finished. At some circuits, the first flag point will display a repeat chequered flag (usually on the opposite side of the circuit).
After six years of rebuilding, the Castellos showed the 500 TR at Pebble Beach in 1991 and Monterey’s Concorso Italiano. Satisfied with their DIY work, the family hasn’t shown the car in ...
Automobile speeds increased at a rapid rate, and an example of that can be seen in the events at the Daytona Beach road course. The inaugural 1952 event had a pole speed of 64.7 mph, [ 6 ] and by the final event 4 years later in 1956, the speed had risen to a blazing 81 mph. [ 7 ] The horsepower race was in full swing, but the leaders of the ...
Tiny Lund broke into the winners circle at Beltsville, and Pearson notched another checkered flag at the Greenville in his 1964 Dodge to close out the month of June. [ 7 ] On July 4 , 1966 the fans, drivers, and teams returned to Daytona for the Firecracker 400 (now Coke Zero 400 ), and second year driver Sam McQuagg drove his Dodge 400-mile ...
Delaware Prompt: "Create a vibrant Delaware scene with a blue hen walking near blooming peach blossoms, a horseshoe crab resting on the shore, and a checkered flag waving at Dover International ...
Falk held the lead until lap 183 when Woody Howard took the lead and held it to the checkered flag. Howard netted the $10,000 winner's check in the number 21 car owned by James Long, putting the same car owner in victory lane as the year before, but with a different driver.