|| *Comments on the 1968 Southeastern 500:* View the most recent comment <#10> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. RaceFanX posted: 02.22.2008 - 3:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last start for Doug Cooper 2. Hokie20 posted: 06.09.2008 - 6:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Richard Petty drove the last 25 laps of the race without any brakes, and still finished 3 seconds back. 3. jr88fan posted: 09.20.2008 - 4:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First win for #17. 4. 18fan posted: 09.29.2008 - 2:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I watched the Car & Track of this race and I don't understand. It showed Petty losing his brakes while leading Pearson. It then showed Yarbrough passing Pearson for the lead and then later Pearson passing him back. This shows Yarbrough taking the lead from Petty with 97 to go and then Pearson passing him with 30 to go. How did LeeRoy lose a lap when he was leading with 30 laps to go. It also confused me becuase it didn't show the last lap and just said David Pearson won the race 5. WillG46 posted: 04.14.2009 - 6:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) LeeRoy may have had a mechanical issue. 6. zuel660 posted: 05.07.2013 - 9:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Can anyone explain why Pearson's factory Holman-Moody Ford was sponsored by Clift Chrysler? 7. simonracer posted: 04.05.2017 - 5:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) G.C. Spencer relieved Bobby Isaac. 8. Rob posted: 08.12.2017 - 11:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Just watched Car and Track presentation of this race on YouTube. Bud Lindeman kept calling Cale and Lee Roy in Mercury Cyclones when it was obvious they were in Fords for this race. 9. Fuzzy posted: 12.27.2020 - 12:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Prior to this race, scheduled races at Weaverville and Rockingham were postponed to later in the season. Weaverville was postponed due to snow, and Rockingham due to rain. This caused a 21-day break in the 1968 NASCAR calendar leading up to this event. All the papers I saw showed Eddie Yarboro starting 22nd and finishing 15th, which suggests that he ran the #50 car and not Wendell Scott in this race. The driver of the #95 Ford is also unclear, since some papers had Don Biederman in the car instead of Doug Cooper. Caution number 4 of 11 was for a spin by car #95, which also collected the cars of G.C. Spencer, John Sears, and Friday Hassler. Spencer dropped out but would later return to the race in relief of Bobby Isaac with about 50 laps remaining. Richard Petty hurt his chances of winning by brushing the guardrail twice while duking it out for the lead in the closing laps. LeeRoy Yarbrough was also in the running but he ended up running out of gas and lost a lap in coasting to the finish. Darel Dieringer was credited with 4th, although Buddy Baker had stepped in to finish the driving duties after the engine had failed in Baker's own #3 car. Multiple newspapers claimed Pearson won the race by a 4 second margin. 10. possum posted: 12.27.2020 - 8:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @9 - never heard of Eddie Yarboro before (not that surprising since he competed in relatively few races with mediocre results), but it's neat that we have Cale, LeeRoy, and Eddie all with the same last name and three different spellings. I tend to agree with you that he is the likely driver (and owner) of the #50. G.C. Spencer does not appear to have used that number in any other race in 1968, and Scott did not drive in any other race for Spencer (in '67 and '69 Scott drove one race each for Spencer, both times at Charlotte and neither time using #50). Nor does Spencer appear to have ever entered 2 cars in a race, excepting a period in '69 when he apparently acquired Ed Negre's team. Further, Yarboro used the #50 for 6 other races that year, all of which were in the nothern North Carolina/south Virginia area, which supports the idea he would have run it at Bristol. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: