|| *Comments on the 1971 Asheville 300:* View the most recent comment <#13> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. hyltonfan58 posted: 02.22.2007 - 5:40 am Rate this comment: (4) (0) NASCAR's struggling independents, fed up with lack of appearance money and small race purses, pull out in the early laps, leaving 5 cars running at the finish. Richard Petty scores an easy win over Elmo Langley as Dick May, J.D. McDuffie, Earl Brooks, Frank Warren, Bill Shirey, John Sears, Benny Parsons, Walter Ballard, Wendell Scott, Ed Negre, Neil Castles, and James Hylton stick it to the man. 2. Destiny posted: 06.20.2007 - 11:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 12 out, five were in the top five including Richard Petty, Elmo Langley, Cecil Gordon, Jabe Thomas and Bill Champion. 3. SK posted: 12.26.2007 - 1:42 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Ironically, the circumstances of this race yielded Dick May's career-best finish in Winston Cup racing, in spite of the fact that he parked halfway through the event. 4. Spen posted: 07.22.2008 - 6:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Career-best finish for Jabe Thomas as well. 5. RaceFanX posted: 01.02.2009 - 1:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the last time Elmo Langley led a race 6. rob posted: 09.29.2014 - 1:39 am Rate this comment: (1) (2) Hyltonfan 58 needs to look at the finishing status little closer . 7. Scott B posted: 11.24.2017 - 7:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was one a several short track races in the 1971 season with low car counts. The drivers that parked were upset over the practice of track promoters paying "appearance money" to Petty that was separate from the prize money, since his participation could be counted on to sell tickets. The shorter schedule in 1972 cut many of these races from the Grand National circuit, although the practice of paying star drivers bonus appearance money was not a NASCAR policy, it was done by the individual tracks to boost attendance. 8. James posted: 08.22.2018 - 11:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (4) And this is why some of Petty's wins should be considered the same as an Xfinity or truck series race. Petty won a lot of these jobber races. Kyle's 200 shoukd be about as significant as Petty's 9. JeffBurton99 posted: 08.23.2018 - 12:15 am Rate this comment: (1) (2) Yeah its hard for me to be impressed with Richards 200+ wins knowing that most of them came when their was very little competition for him. Not saying they arent legit... But in the modern era maybe hes closer to being Jimmie Johnson... Even the daytona qaulifying races used to be points paying races. 10. RaceFanX posted: 04.30.2020 - 1:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race marked the Cup series' return to New Asheville Speedway after an absence of just under three years but it would be the series' final race here as the trimmed down schedule in 1972 eliminated this event. Richard Petty won the prior race in 1968 and won again here with little challenge. 11. nascar_vd/racing-reference.info posted: 11.20.2020 - 9:20 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Note: race results update. 12. JSPorts posted: 11.20.2020 - 10:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This track has a pretty interesting history. It still exists today as a park & you can ride your bike around the old track surface. It was featured in Dale Jr.'s Lost Speedways. 13. rm posted: 02.07.2021 - 3:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Along with a similar dud the next month at Meyer Speedway in Houston and the controversial races that allowed Grand American cars on the grid, this was one of the driving factors for NASCAR to introduce the Winner's Circle point fund payout program beginning in 1972. While the specifics have changed through the years, a variation still exists today in Cup in the form of the charter system. Individual race purse money increased noticeably as a result for 1972, combined with other reasons such as increased spend by Winston and the axing of tracks under a half-mile & dirt tracks from the schedule among several others. As a result, the lowest single-race purse in 1972 was just over $30,000 at Richmond, a number that was higher than 28 of the 48 races in 1971. Eight races featured six-digit payouts, twice the number from the 1971 season. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: