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  1.   Anonymous posted:
  12.04.2006 - 1:16 am
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Jan Opperman's only NASCAR start, finishing 8th.


  2.   racer posted:
  01.13.2007 - 3:51 am
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first pocono race, first pocono race rain shortened(by 7 laps)


  3.   MegaRacer posted:
  03.17.2008 - 12:58 pm
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The King won the Acme 500 USAC Stock Car race at Pocono one year earlier.

http://www.ultimateracinghistory.com/race.php?raceid=126


  4.   allen posted:
  05.13.2011 - 6:51 pm
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Lennie Pond broke his shoulder in a crash did not return until
Martinsville in September...


  5.   Luke posted:
  01.12.2020 - 1:21 pm
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The video link posted on this page is the 1975 race, not 1974.


  6.   rateus posted:
  02.19.2021 - 5:36 pm
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Ernie Shaw qualified 31st in a Chevrolet but withdrew.


  7.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.10.2021 - 5:44 pm
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The King Richard Petty puts his name in the history books as the winner
of the inaugural NASCAR Cup race at Pocono. This was one of two Cup wins
here for the King with both following his lone career USAC Stock Car win
here a year earlier as noted in post 3.

This was a good day for L.G. DeWitt and his King's Row Fireplace team as
their double-barreled assault on this race was a successful one. Benny
Parsons had the team's regular #72 up front and brought it home with a
top-5 finish while sprint car legend Jan Opperman was brought to race a
year-old Chevrolet as a second car, the #77, and brought his one-off
entry home with a top-10. DeWitt hired Opperman to drive the old car
here on the basis of his strong run at the Indy 500 earlier in the year.


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