|| *Comments on the 1971 Daytona 500:* View the most recent comment <#37> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Matt posted: 09.17.2005 - 4:01 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Maynard Troyer's Cup debut ended on lap 9 with a wild roll over accident coming off turn 2, the car tumbled around 15 times down the Super Stretch. 2. RaceFanX posted: 12.01.2007 - 6:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dick Brooks strong 7th with 5 laps lead here was the last competive run for a winged race car in NASCAR. Mario Rossi's team entered a Dodge Daytona. 3. JeffGordonFan_ posted: 11.11.2008 - 4:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First (real) race for Marv Acton, who finished 18th in the 1st qualifier. 4. hyltonfan08 posted: 01.23.2009 - 6:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cale Yarborough's sponsor was Woolco. 5. Sébastien posted: 07.25.2009 - 6:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Petty #43 was sponsored by Southern Chrysler/Plymouth. Brooks #22 was sponsored by Golden Products. 6. myself posted: 02.09.2010 - 11:54 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) No such thing as a superstretch in '71. They called it what they should call it back then....the back stretch. 7. Sébastien posted: 04.18.2010 - 6:39 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Foyt #21 was sponsored by Teleprompter Cable TV/Purolator. 8. v2v1v5 posted: 04.25.2010 - 1:01 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) A.J.Foyt in the Wood Bros.Mercury had the car to beat all day,but the crew had trouble filling it with gas all day.he ran out while leading on lap 162.I read later that thr crew found out someone crushed the filler neck on the gas tank.Donnie Allison had a full lap lead on the field and could have cruised to a easy victory,but oddly under caution his brakes locked up putting him in the wall,opening the door for Richard Petty's win. 9. fannie l davis posted: 05.03.2010 - 2:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) does anyone know why after these 2 qualifying races this yr they are no longer counted as races thanks 10. AnonymousEFR posted: 04.04.2011 - 9:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Hmm? Oh, NASCAR decided that if the race is shorter than 250 miles, it can't be on the schedule. Yet, the races at the full Sears Point were LESS THAN 200 MILES! Well, they started racing there in 1989...also, Troyer flipped 19 times, the most times EVER for ANY TYPE of race car in the last 50 years. Troyer was a modified racer, and he currently, I believe, is a fisherman. 11. Anonymous posted: 07.15.2011 - 2:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Big list of DNQ's: Ed Negre (#8,) Jimmy Crawford (#02,) Pedro Rodriguez (#14,) Dub Simpson (#16,) Fritz Schultz (#23,) Earl Brooks (#26,) Bill Hollar (#28,) Walter Ballard (#30,) Wendell Scott (#34,) Blackie Wangerin (#38,) Ken Meisenhelder (#41,) Roy Mayne (#46,) EJ Trivette (#56,) Robert Brown (#58,) Vic Elford (#59,) Charlie Roberts (#63,) Dick May (#67,) JD McDuffie (#70,) Bill Shirey (#74,) Dick Poling (#78,) Joe Hines (#80,) Bobby Mausgrover (#84,) Butch Hirst (#87,) Leonard Blanchard (#95) Jabe Thomas qualified car #25, so perhaps he should be listed as either a did not start or a did not qualify. 12. The Great Dave posted: 01.06.2012 - 5:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors #03 T Gale Trucking #04 High Meadows Country & Golf Club #06 Howard Furnature #2 Southside Dodge #4 J. Marvin Mills Heating & Cooling #7 Plymouth #11 Dodge By Petty #20 Southland Auto Salvage #31 Moss-Thorton #39 Chattahoochee Valley Auto Parts / See Rock City #44 Custom Trim Products #48 Mullins Ford #55 Baughmann Hi-Speed #64 Woodfield Ford #72 Montgomery Motors 13. RaceFanX posted: 12.31.2012 - 1:39 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) This 500 lost a little of its zip from the year before as most of the factory money left the sport leaving only the Pettys with a car maker behind them. NASCAR also put a bunch of restictions in place to slow down cars, such as restricting the wing cars to small 305-inch engines that left almost all of them off the track, including restrictor plates for the first time. As such A.J. Foyt's pole speed was 11 MPH off the one the year before. 1969 500 winner LeeRoy Yarbrough led a few laps early but his bid for another win ended when the #98 Mercury blew a motor and made a slightly firey exit just after turn 4. Yarbrough was followed behind the wall a few laps later by Cale Yarborough, Cale had moved to USAC Champ Car racing for 1971 when the factories left but still was able to arrange a ride in Ray Fox's famed white #3 for Speedweeks. Dick Brooks (his Daytona the only winged car in the field) and defending 500 winner Pete Hamilton (now in Cotton Owens' #6 and fresh off a 125 victory earlier in the week) were strong in the first half of the race with both taking turns out front. As the two battled for second behind Foyt they made contact with Brooks spinning and Hamilton's car also damaged. Both were able to continue but Hamilton's day only went from bad to worse with a blown engine while Brooks was no longer a factor to win afterward but at least salvaged a top-10. Foyt's lost two laps due to the fuel issue but made them up by lap 183. While he got back on the lead lap he did it so late and without a caution to aid him afterward he had to settle for third behind the Petty cars. The last battle for the lead was between the Mopar entries from the Petty camp but Buddy Baker's white Dodge had some handling issues leaving Richard Petty to speed to an easy victory in his Petty Blue Plymouth. Petty came across the line right behind Foyt. Odd choice, the pace car for this running of the Great American Race was a Porsche 914. 14. dozierthegreat posted: 04.20.2013 - 10:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) A few more sponsors for this race: #3 - Woolco did NOT Sponsor Cale this year - Car only has Plymouth #17 - Purolator Filters #79 - Waynesboro Chrysler Plymouth #60 Car has Nagle Ford on side, I guess Nagle Racers is close enough #55 - Baughman Hi Speed, but also large Pepsi decal. 15. VoteGillilandNotDanica2014 posted: 11.13.2013 - 2:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor: #88 Ron Keselowski: Messina Trucking 16. VoteGillilandNotDanica2014 posted: 11.13.2013 - 5:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #25 Pedro Rodriguez: Star City Body Shop #45 Bill Seifert: Garrett Motor Co. 17. RaceFanX posted: 12.26.2013 - 9:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #18 Joe Frasson- Mario Frasson Cement Co. (looks like everyone else listed unsponsored was unsponsored) 18. Paul W. Sarasota,Fl. posted: 05.05.2014 - 3:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Maynard Troyer in 1964-1966 raced modifieds at a 1/4 mile asphalt oval Sara-Mana speedway in Bradenton,Fl and Pedro Rodriguez raced Porche 917's at 24 hours of Daytona and Sebring... 19. Anonymous posted: 06.08.2014 - 5:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Plymouth gave the Petty team and Buddy Baker strict instructions that if the race came down to the two of them Baker was to take it easy and not challenge Petty for the win. That's exactly what happened, and Baker followed the orders perfectly, though if he knew the heartbreak he'd suffer in this race through the rest of the decade I highly doubt that would have been the case. 20. Terry Maynard posted: 11.01.2014 - 12:16 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Friday Hassler's sponsor should read Chattanooga Valley Auto Parts / See Rock City instead of Chattahoochee Valley Auto Parts / See Rock City 21. Schroeder51 posted: 12.24.2015 - 8:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Withdrew: Jabe Thomas-#25 Plymouth (Owned by Jabe Thomas) Thomas competed in the qualifying races, but was replaced for the 500 by Pedro Rodriguez. 22. Schroeder51 posted: 12.24.2015 - 8:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) *Correction to above, Thomas' car was owned by Don Robertson, not himself. 23. KW posted: 02.29.2016 - 2:22 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Earlier in Speedweeks this year Iggy Katona won the ARCA 300 in a 1970 Dodge followed by Tom Bowsher, Red Farmer, Jack Shanklin and Hank Teeters. Billy Ries finished 6th in a Camaro. Then came the Citrus 250 for Grand American cars on the road course, won by Billy Ries in a 69 Camaro followed by Wayne Andrews, Rusty Jowett, Joie Chitwood Jr and Tiny Lind. Richard Childress was 9th, Billy Hagan was 18th, Buck Baker 24th, and Jim Paschal 32nd. And the Saturday race for the NASCAR Sportsman series was the Permatex 300, won by Red Farmer in a 68 Ford, followed by Sam Sommers, Ron Eulenfield, Joey Holley and Lee Osborne. Morgan Shepherd was 19th, Bobby Allison 22nd, Darrel Waltrip 28th, Tiny Lund 30th, and Harry Gant 34th. 24. Bullet posted: 08.11.2016 - 5:05 am Rate this comment: (3) (3) Wished Baker would have not obeyed Plymouths commands 25. Rob posted: 12.14.2016 - 10:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Buddy got a win later in the year at Darlington and ran well in several other races. 26. Scott B posted: 05.08.2017 - 12:11 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) The #22 entry by Mario Rossi with Dick Brooks driving used a 305 cubic inch engine as mandated by the rules intended to handicap the winged cars with less horsepower to offset the aero advantage. It was a destroked Mopar 340 using some of the tricks learned from the Trans-Am series. That car has recently been re-acquired by the Rossi family, and is undergoing an extensive restoration to bring it back to its former glory. 27. Jolly Mean Giant posted: 06.02.2018 - 2:13 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) First Daytona 500 starts for Bill Dennis and Maynard Troyer. Only Daytona 500 start for Pedro Rodriguez, Freddy Fryar, Marv Acton, Larry Baumel, Last Daytona 500 starts for Fred Lorenzen, LeeRoy Yarbrough and Friday Hassler. 28. Ryan posted: 11.24.2019 - 11:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 34 lead changes in the first 250 miles of the race. Awesome. 29. Jordan posted: 03.27.2020 - 11:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) An odd footnote I noticed in watching the coverage on youtube, Cale Yarborough was wearing a full face helmet. I find this odd because I know in later years, even when he won in 1984, he was wearing an open face helmet. I wonder why he used the full face here. Any ideas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WENAXdiCOkc Cale intro at the 2:22 mark, wearing the helmet, plays with the visor 11:39 mark, Cale climbs out of the car after his engine lets go and you can see the helmet in his hand. 30. GGDC posted: 03.27.2020 - 12:04 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Cale was racing USAC Indy Cars at the time, so that might be part of the reason. 31. MSportRev posted: 03.27.2020 - 12:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ updates: Wendell Scott was in a Ford he owned. Ed Negre was in a Dodge he owned. Jimmy Crawford was in a Plymouth owned by the Crawford Brothers. Pedro Rodriguez was in a Chevrolet owned by Bill Ellis. Dub Simpson was in a Chevrolet owned by Ken Spikes. Fritz Schultz was in a Plymouth owned by Don Robertson. Earl Brooks was in a Ford he owned. Vic Elford was in a Ford owned by Tom Pistone. J.D. McDuffie was in a Mercury he owned. Bill Shirey was in a Plymouth he owned. Dick Poling was in a Dodge. Bobby Mausgrover was in a Dodge owned by Buster Davis. Butch Hirst was in an Oldsmobile owned by John Pemberton. 32. Jordan posted: 03.27.2020 - 2:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @30 - could be, I really have no idea. I find it interesting how many raced open face helmets even into the 90s & 00s. I am surprised they weren't legislated out if for no other reason than fire protection. 33. possum posted: 03.27.2020 - 8:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @32 - GGDC is probably right, Indycar drivers were a lot more afraid of fire (because the methanol fuel they used then burns with an invisible flame), so full face helmets and balaclavas were common. Until fairly recent times (i.e. this century) full face helmets were considerably heavier than open helmets; given the g-forces on a banked oval track many drivers found the extra weight unpleasant. 34. Jordan posted: 03.29.2020 - 9:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @33, that is very understandable, especially when they didn't have the big head rests like they do now. I find the evolution of safety equipment fascinating. 35. nascarvd/racing-reference.info posted: 04.12.2020 - 4:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Note: Car #25 had Jabe Thomas at the wheel as it took off down pit road with the field for the race start. Jabe made one pace lap, got himself point credit for entering the race, and then pulled into his pit where he was replaced behind the wheel by Pedro Rodriguez for the green flag. 36. Rich posted: 01.01.2021 - 7:42 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Keith Jackson and Chris Economaki were the commentators. Economaki was the sole pit road reporter. Jackson was the studio host. 37. A.C posted: 04.16.2021 - 2:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 5 NASCAR Legends finish in the top 5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: