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  1.   FHgrad99 posted:
  09.03.2007 - 10:36 pm
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If there was ever a war of attrition, this was it.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.04.2009 - 10:45 am
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First of only two, to date, Cup points races held outside the United
States. Another was held in Toronto in 1958. (That event is best
remembered as Richard Petty's debut)

Buddy Shuman scores his lone Cup series win.

This was the Cup series' only race at Stamford Park in Niagara Falls,
Ontario.


  3.   Shift into Top Gear posted:
  09.19.2009 - 2:33 pm
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Canadian racer Albert Lemieux gets a top-10 in his lone NASCAR start
despite being flagged off the track


  4.   18fan posted:
  08.28.2010 - 12:14 am
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The fifth place finisher DNFed because of "slow". And he got a top 5.


  5.   Graham Clayton posted:
  04.08.2015 - 8:58 pm
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Lemieux's '50 Mercury was actually a Canadian Meteor Mercury, not the US
model.


  6.   Scott B posted:
  04.16.2015 - 5:16 pm
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Three cars running at the finish, three out of seventeen starters
flagged for being too slow. Hard to imagine they were really in the way
that much with so few cars on track past the halfway point.


  7.   nascar_vd / Racing-Reference.info posted:
  05.15.2017 - 9:53 am
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Note: Eddie Lenz flipped on the 55th lap and sprawled on it's top in the
3rd turn. Tim Flock went careening right over te op of it. Neither
driver was injured an while Lenz' car was a total washout, Flock was
able to continue for four more laps before calling it a day.


  8.   Timothy Eklund posted:
  03.15.2018 - 12:27 pm
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I wonder if this set the record for lest cars running at the finish.


  9.   Mile501 posted:
  03.15.2018 - 1:58 pm
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#8 - I'm thinking there was a race with only one car running at the
finish, but if that's the case, I can't remember which race it was.


  10.   Dan posted:
  03.15.2018 - 9:41 pm
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That would be this one - http://racing-reference.info/race/1956-46/V


  11.   TimothyEklundsOtherComputer posted:
  03.16.2018 - 10:07 am
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@10 I men't for the cup series, but that race looks like it was crazy.


  12.   Mile501 posted:
  03.16.2018 - 10:51 am
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Yep, you found it! I was thinking it was a "Cup" (Grand National)
race--no wonder I couldn't find it when I was searching yesterday. But
that is the race I was thinking about.


  13.   Andy U posted:
  12.14.2018 - 10:13 pm
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This from Niagara historical site
Stamford Park closed September 1, 1953, and over the next few years the
track's many buildings were demolished. Most of the area is now the site
of the Ascot Woods subdivision, with street names that harken back to
the glory days: Paddock Trail, Preakness, Ascot, Post Road. Every once
in a while a long-time resident of Niagara Falls will refer to area as
"where the racetrack was", and Museum visitors wonder about where the
horses raced and the stock cars roared.

T


  14.   Eric posted:
  01.22.2019 - 11:19 pm
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Technically, the Albert Lemieux car was a Ford Meteor, a brand of Ford
cars manufactured for Canada.


  15.   MSportRev posted:
  09.15.2019 - 4:59 pm
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Margin of Victory: 2 laps +


  16.   thecautionlightnews posted:
  09.23.2020 - 11:00 am
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Albert Lemieux becomes the first French Canadian to race in NASCAR. He
may also have been the first person to race in NASCAR who did not speak
English as a first language, although Frank Mundy might have that
distinction


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