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  1.   Chevy posted:
  11.12.2007 - 9:51 am
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This race paid 225 points for the winner. Defending champion Red Byron
returned to the top of the standings only to miss next 10 races.

1. Tim Flock 225
2. Bob Flock 202.5
3. Clyde Minter 180
4. Red Byron 157.5
5. Bill Snowden 135
6. Glenn Dunnaway 112.5
7. Jack White 90
8. Fred Johnson 67.5
9. Herb Thomas 45
10. Huey Dunn 22.5
11. Frank Mundy 18
12. Bob Apperson 13.5
13. Bill Rexford 9
14. Lloyd Moore 4.5
15. Curtis Turner 3.5
16. Cotton Owens 2.5
17. June Cleveland 2
18. Lee Petty 1.5
19. Bill Blair 1
20. Bill Harrison 0.5

Points below 14th position are estimated to fit with official final tally.

Overall top-20 after 2 of 19 races:

1. Red Byron 315
2. Tim Flock 312.5 -2.5
3. Bob Flock 272.5 -42.5
4. Clyde Minter 180 -135
5. Harold Kite 175 -140
6. Lloyd Moore 144.5 -170.5
7. Bill Snowden 135 -180
8. Al Gross 122.5 -192.5
9. Glenn Dunnaway 112.5 -202.5
10. J.C. Van Landingham 105 -210
11. Jack White 90.5 -224.5
12. Fred Johnson 67.5 -247.5
13. Otis Martin 52.5 -262.5
14. Herb Thomas 45 -270
15. Buck Baker 35 -280
16. Huey Dunn 22.5 -292.5
17. Frank Mundy 18 -297
18. Fonty Flock 17.5 -297.5
18. Curtis Turner 17.5 -297.5
20. Bob Apperson 13.5 -301.5


  2.   SK posted:
  12.28.2007 - 1:53 am
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Tim Flock claims his first career victory, as the series returns to the
site of the inaugural race ten months earlier.


  3.   hyltonfan08 posted:
  01.23.2009 - 3:11 pm
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Bob Flock's sponsor was Bob Flock Garage (wonder how that happened).


  4.   Madison posted:
  12.20.2009 - 1:17 am
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The first time brothers finished 1st and 2nd.


  5.   Anonymous posted:
  11.25.2010 - 1:10 am
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June Cleveland flipped while running in the top 5.

He was not seriously injured, despite it was where Hank Stanley a
Modified-Sportsman driver was killed during a race.


  6.   Anonymous posted:
  04.16.2011 - 3:21 am
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@hyltonfan08 I guess people were trying to promote themselves somehow.


  7.   Aaron posted:
  07.17.2012 - 6:52 pm
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Clyde Minter of martinsville, va scores his best career grand national
finish, 3rd.


  8.   Graham Clayton posted:
  10.25.2013 - 11:16 pm
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Huey Dunn gets a Top-10 finish in his only race.


  9.   1995z71 posted:
  03.29.2014 - 4:24 am
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The last NASCAR race ever won by a Lincoln.


  10.   Ian posted:
  05.05.2020 - 10:54 am
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This race marks the first time in NASCAR Cup competition that a race
team won consecutive races. Tim Flock takes the win in Harold Kite's
Lincoln after Kite won the prior outing at Daytona Beach.


  11.   JSPorts posted:
  05.05.2020 - 12:53 pm
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That's an interesting stat. I assume that this is also the first time a
car number won back-to-back as well, then?


  12.   Ian posted:
  05.05.2020 - 2:05 pm
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@11

Yes, that is correct. The #22 and #7 both won 2 races each in 1949, but
they were not consecutive.


  13.   possum posted:
  05.05.2020 - 7:03 pm
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That was an interesting era, when people were trying to figure out if a
big engine/heavy car or a small engine/light car was the faster.

A '50 or '49 Ford would have used the 239ci flathead, a '50 Mercury
would have used the 255ci flatty and weighed maybe 300 or 400 lbs more
than the Ford, and the Lincoln would have used the 337 flathead (a truck
engine in it's other life), with maybe another 300lbs over the Mercury.


  14.   JSPorts posted:
  05.05.2020 - 7:13 pm
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I wish the cars were still more like true stock cars today so that we
could see these differences. It just adds another element of strategy:
could a team bring the right car at the right track to run well? It
would add to the strategy of a race weekend and probably shake up the
results more often, too.


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