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  1.   src1 posted:
  12.10.2007 - 9:32 pm
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Pete Arnold's only start


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.04.2008 - 4:33 am
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Only NASCAR race at Meyer Speedway, the track with the infamous
description of being the last new track added to the Cup tour that is no
longer on the schedule.

Wierd seeing a Cup race as late as 1971 that had less than 15 cars in
the event.


  3.   Bill posted:
  12.30.2008 - 4:41 pm
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This is the last Cup race with fewer than 20 cars.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.02.2009 - 1:30 pm
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Fifth consecutive win for Bobby Allison


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.01.2010 - 9:37 pm
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Houston's Fred Hill makes his only Cup start, he was thrilled to get a
shot to run with the Cup guys.


  6.   Graham Clayton posted:
  08.05.2011 - 12:51 am
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The Space City 300 was held on the Wednesday following the race at
Riverside. The winners prizemoney of just over $2,000 meant that many of
the teams who raced at Riverside went straight back home to the East Coast.


  7.   v2v1v5 posted:
  06.09.2012 - 11:45 pm
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Wins 5 in a row in 3 brands of cars-won Charlotte and Michigan in a 1969
Mercury Cyclone,Dover in a 1971 Ford Torino and Riverside and Houston in
a 1970 Dodge Charger ! Not sure if that was ever done before.


  8.   gearhead15 posted:
  10.24.2012 - 9:58 pm
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The NASCAR records are incorrect about the winning car, it was a '71
Dodge Charger rather than a '70. It was also the car Marty Robbins
bought from Bobby, Bobby had to borrow it back to race at Riverside when
the financially struggling Holman-Moody team chose to not make the trip.
The car raced with Bobby's gold foil numbers but still in the Marty
Robbins magenta and neon chartreuse.


  9.   Sebastien posted:
  11.10.2013 - 2:03 pm
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This was a night race, wasn't it ?


  10.   rob posted:
  06.08.2015 - 6:53 am
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The last race without a Chevrolet in the field if my research is correct.


  11.   The Real Thomas posted:
  03.25.2016 - 4:44 am
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The 1982 Daytona 500 didn't have any Chevrolets


  12.   The Great Dave posted:
  03.25.2016 - 8:19 am
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Only one GM product in this race too (Frank Warren's Pontiac)


  13.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.30.2017 - 9:01 pm
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Rookie Walter Ballard finishes third to claim his best career NASCAR
finish. He would go on to be the Rookie of the Year for this season.


  14.   AJ Fan posted:
  04.08.2017 - 11:01 pm
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I think the real purpose of this race was to promote NASCAR at Texas
World Speedway in College Station later in the year. The promoter at
Meyer, Ed Hamlen had become Executive Director at TWS after it had
reorganized by its builder. They never did have a large purse at TWS and
a few years later was bought by a USAC affiliated group. Meyer was so
bumpy, it would rattle your fillings out and loose the bolts of your car
off (thank you Permatex). It put on pretty good races there over its
history.


  15.   Rob posted:
  05.03.2017 - 9:41 am
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I guess I should change my comment to the last race that no Chevrolets
were entered. There were a handful of DNQ Chevrolets at that 82 Daytona
500.


  16.   A posted:
  07.12.2020 - 2:30 pm
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The Cup series has never again come close to having a field this small.
Even for the rest of 1971, they only once had fewer than 29 cars and
that was a 22 car field. Definitely a race from a dying era at the time
this happened.

And as others have noted, Hill and Arnold make their only cup starts.
Ronnie Chumley, who lasted a bit longer, only started six other career
Cup races. The motivation to stop here on the way back across the
country from Riverside was not strong!


  17.   Z posted:
  08.15.2020 - 12:03 pm
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The last race until Kaz Grala's 2020 run @Daytona for Austin Dillon that
a Cup driver debuted in a #3.
The x2 most notable names to have also done this are Al Unser (1968) &
Paul Goldsmith (1956), w/ x16 in total accomplishing the feat.


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