Race details [1] [2] | |||
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Race 22 of 44 in the 1960 NASCAR Grand National Series season | |||
Date | June 26, 1960 | ||
Official name | International 200 | ||
Location | Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, North Carolina | ||
Course | Permanent racing facility 0.250 mi (0.421 km) | ||
Distance | 200 laps, 50.0 mi (35.0 km) | ||
Weather | Very hot with temperatures of 90 °F (32 °C); wind speeds of 15.9 miles per hour (25.6 km/h) | ||
Average speed | 45.782 miles per hour (73.679 km/h) | ||
Attendance | 10,500 | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Petty Enterprises | ||
Most laps led | |||
Driver | Glen Wood | Wood Brothers | |
Laps | 200 | ||
Winner | |||
No. 16 | Glen Wood | Wood Brothers | |
Television in the United States | |||
Network | untelevised | ||
Announcers | none |
The 1960 International 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on June 26, 1960, at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.
Bowman Gray Stadium is a NASCAR sanctioned 1⁄4-mile (0.40 km) asphalt flat oval short track and longstanding football stadium located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is one of stock car racing's most legendary venues, and is referred to as "NASCAR's longest-running weekly race track". Bowman Gray Stadium is part of the Winston-Salem Sports and Entertainment Complex and is home of the Winston-Salem State University Rams football team. [3] It was also the home of the Wake Forest University football team from 1956 until Groves Stadium (later BB&T Field) opened in 1968.
It took one hour and five minutes to resolve two hundred laps of racing. [2] The average speed of the race was 45.872 miles per hour (73.824 km/h) while Lee Petty would qualify for the pole position with a speed of 47.850 miles per hour (77.007 km/h). [2] These speeds would be relatively slow on today's highway systems for passenger automobiles. Glen Wood managed to defeat Petty by half a lap in the actual race. [2]
A magnificent combination of driver skill and the lighter non-American vehicles would do a lot to overcome raw horsepower at Bowman Gray Stadium. The modern NASCAR Cup Series is more influenced by futuristic technology typically found in Formula One vehicles; making driver skill secondary to impromptu luck-based strategies made during the race. The foreign makes that participated in this race were the MG (as a part of Great Britain's now-defunct MG Cars) and the Triumph (as a part of Great Britain's now-defunct Triumph Motor Company). [2] Smokey Cook would end up as the last-place finisher in a 1952 MG T-type. [2]
Lowe's appeared as an official NASCAR sponsor for the first time in its history. [2] Ten thousand and five hundred people appeared in person to watch this live untelevised race. [2] This would be the 22nd race out of the 44 raced that year; making this race the official halfway point of the 1960 Grand National Series season. [2]
Individual race winnings ranged from the winner's share of $1,125 ($11,587 when adjusted for inflation) to the last-place finisher's share of $140 ($1,442 when adjusted for inflation). NASCAR allowed the organizers of this event to give out a grand total of $4,755 for all the qualifying drivers ($48,973 when adjusted for inflation). [4]
Grid [2] | No. | Driver | Manufacturer | Owner |
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1 | 42 | Lee Petty | '60 Plymouth | Petty Enterprises |
2 | 43 | Richard Petty | '60 Plymouth | Petty Enterprises |
3 | 16 | Glen Wood | '58 Ford | Wood Brothers |
4 | 21 | Bob Welborn | '59 Ford | Wood Brothers |
5 | 4 | Rex White | '59 Chevrolet | Rex White |
6 | 11 | Ned Jarrett | '60 Ford | Ned Jarrett |
7 | 13 | Joe Weatherly | '60 Valiant | Fred Wheat |
8 | 74 | Buck Baker | '58 Chevrolet | L.D. Austin |
9 | 36 | Tommy Irwin | '59 T-Bird | Tommy Irwin |
10 | 9 | Roy Tyner | '60 Ford | Roy Tyner |
11 | 17 | Fred Harb | '58 Ford | Fred Harb |
12 | 1 | Paul Lewis | '58 Chevrolet | Jess Potter |
13 | 54 | Jimmy Pardue | '59 Dodge | Ebart Clifton |
14 | 78 | Jimmie Lewallen | '57 Ford | unknown |
15 | 79 | Jack Hart | '57 Triumph | unknown |
16 | 17X | Billy Whitley | '54 Corvette | unknown |
17 | 3 | Smokey Cook | '52 MG | unknown |
18 | 25 | Bill Massey | '59 MG | unknown |
Section reference: [2]
* Driver failed to finish race
† Driver is deceased
Section reference: [2]
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