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  1.   18fan posted:
  03.22.2009 - 10:46 pm
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Nelson Stacy led most of the end of the race but blew up leading. Banjo
Matthews inherited the lead and blew up leading. Fireball Roberts took
the lead and ran out of gas with two laps to go.
Junior Johnson(In reality Bunkie Blackburn, driving in relief of Junior)
took the lead, but ran out of gas on the white flag lap. David Pearson
passed Blackburn in the last turn, but originally Blackburn was flagged
the winner, which would have given the win to Johnson. Pearson claimed
that he had won the race, which he had. It was his third win of the 1961
season, in which he won the World 600 and the Firecracker 250, which
gave The Silver Fox his first nickname, David the Giant Killer.


  2.   AnonymousEFR posted:
  04.04.2011 - 9:29 am
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Banjo came close several times. He finished a third of the races he
started, but when the car did finish, he ran quite well.

Last start for Jesse James Taylor, the same one that finished 2nd in the
'51 Southern 500, and then was critically injured at Lakewood that year.


  3.   rob posted:
  05.09.2013 - 7:45 am
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From what I remember there were lap deficits between the top cars once
Banjo dropped out. That forced the flagman to throw the white flag
multiple times.


  4.   Anonymous posted:
  08.08.2014 - 6:08 am
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Corrected Lap Leaders:
Fireball Roberts 1-27
Fred Lorenzen 28-35
Nelson Stacy 36-52
Joe Weatherly 53-56
Banjo Matthews 57-199
Bobby Johns 200-210
Nelson Stacy 211-243
Banjo Matthews 244-263
Fireball Roberts 264-265
David Pearson 266-267


  5.   nascar_vd / racing-reference.info posted:
  02.07.2016 - 12:09 pm
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Note: starting lineup for this race is now available.


  6.   nascar_vd / racing-reference.info posted:
  02.09.2016 - 8:02 am
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Note: On lap 52, Fred Lorenzen engine blew, spewing oïl on the track,
His car spun into a concrete retaining wall and Fireball Roberts
narrowly missed him. Dave Mader was not so fortunate in trying to avoid
Lorenzen. His car spun into a steel guardrail, knocking him unconscious.
Mader was given emergency treatment and then taken to an Atlanta
hospital for observation. Fortunately he was not seriously hurt.


  7.   Maverick11 posted:
  03.09.2016 - 2:51 pm
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How did Banjo Matthews lead lap 263 if he only completed 262 laps?


  8.   Nicheno posted:
  05.18.2016 - 9:13 am
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Ned Jarrett started 27th, not 17th. Tubby Gonzales was 17th at the start.


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