|| *Comments on the 1975 Mason-Dixon 500:* View the most recent comment <#31> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Steve posted: 08.18.2006 - 3:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cecil Gordon's only 2nd place finish. 2. Jocke Persson posted: 09.15.2007 - 12:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Poor Gordon, he never finished on the lead lap even though competing in 450 races! Pearson won by seven laps??? And five hours? Is that the record for longest race? 3. RaceFanX posted: 01.19.2008 - 3:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kenny Brightbill scores a career-best 7th 4. Jason Moyer posted: 07.25.2008 - 12:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) KENNY BRIGHTBILL Man, it's weird looking at old cup races and occasionally stumblng on someone like him or Dick Tobias. 5. jp posted: 02.22.2009 - 3:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) who was Dick Tobias? 6. RaceFanX posted: 09.07.2009 - 12:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) John Harkins' lone Cup race 7. The Ost posted: 02.19.2012 - 11:45 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Dick May set a record by driving five cars in this race. 8. Steve posted: 03.28.2012 - 1:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Brightbill opened his Winston Cup career with 3 Top 10s in his first 3 starts. I don't know of anyone else who has done that. 9. zuel660 posted: 12.29.2012 - 10:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anyone know why Bud Moore ran a Chevrolet in this race instead of his normal Ford entry? 10. Billy P posted: 01.16.2014 - 2:40 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Bud Moore did not have Baker in a chevy. Must be an error. 11. toomuchcountry posted: 05.18.2014 - 2:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Race started on May 18th but was postponed by rain after 140 laps with Benny Parsons in the lead. Resumed on Monday May 19 to run the remaining laps. Article re: postponement http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dZQeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HcwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3247%2C3502946 Article re: Pearson's win http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dpQeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HcwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7098%2C3591334 12. Aldo posted: 08.22.2014 - 10:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Longest ever race at Dover, almost five hours of racing. Bring back at least one 500 miler at the monster mile! 13. rob posted: 05.25.2015 - 8:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) At this point in the season, there had been six different winners in six superspeedway races. 14. zuel660 posted: 06.11.2018 - 3:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @7 Does anyone know what other 4 cars Dick May drove in this race, other than the Negre #8 ? 15. Scott B posted: 06.11.2018 - 3:43 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Dick May drove the #2 owned by Dave Marcis in relief of Ed Negre (who, confusingly, owned the car May started the race in). Don't know what the other 3 cars were. May had previous connections with a lot of other owners and drivers, so it's not surprising he would have been a popular choice as a reliever. Still, though, that's a remarkable stat. 16. UNCLECHARLIE posted: 04.26.2020 - 7:09 am Rate this comment: (3) (0) I just found my ticket stub and this was my last NASCAR race that I attended. My wife couldn't go so my best friend and I went. I do not remember if we stayed until the race was called. I was back on Monday. I borrowed my brother's '62 F250 and probably averaged 75 or 80 all the way down Route 13. I remember getting there about 10:30 and the race was already restarted when it was supposed to restart at 11. I just walked in the gate, nobody was there to look at my rain check! 17. Jimnsimforever posted: 04.27.2020 - 5:31 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @14 I don't know all 5 different cars Dick May drove in this race, but he didn't finish the race, so they all must've DNF'd. Eli Gold brought this up during the broadcast of the fall Dover Cup race in 98. They were talking about Ted Musgrave who was driving in that race for his 5th different team of the season (of what would eventually be 6). Eli Gold said something along the lines of, he's got nothing on Dick May, who drove 5 different cars in the same race here in 75 and even then, he still didn't finish the race. 18. possum posted: 04.27.2020 - 7:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @17 - I am a tad sceptical May actually drove 5 cars. It's in his obit, and the wording from the obit shows up in innumerable websites, but there seems to be no other reference to it. Plus some sites add "throttle linkage broke 5 laps from the finish", yet no car is listed as dropping out with 5 laps to go, so that's kind of a hint that the story grew in the telling. Anyway, some possibilities, given it's possible the original driver got back in the car to finish: the 5 of Dick Brooks (May sometimes drove for Junie Donlavey), the 23 of Earl Brooks (May had driven for him before), the 70 of JD McDuffie (May had also driven for him), the 46 of Travis Tiller (yet another owner-driver that May had driven for), and the 19 of Henley Gray. (BTW, Musgrave's also got nothing on Joe Weatherly, who drove for 9 different owners in 1963, and managed to win the championship in the process) 19. GoRC10 posted: 04.27.2020 - 8:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @18 A car could be multiple laps down with five laps to go. 20. Anonymous posted: 04.28.2020 - 7:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Henley Gray's last top ten finish. 21. possum posted: 04.29.2020 - 6:42 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) @19 - this is true. None the less, it's suspicious that some stories add that small detail, but there's no mention of what car he was in, or who the driver was he replaced, or where he actually finished, or any other details at all. If the event really happened, you'd think that somewhere on the web there'd be more details than "drove 5 cars" and "throttle linkage broke 5 laps from the end". 22. JSPorts posted: 04.29.2020 - 6:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) You'd think, but NASCAR wasn't big-time in 1975 and there was obviously no internet back then. So some things have been lost. 23. Mile501 posted: 04.29.2020 - 7:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Not only was record-keeping not as good back then, but drivers replaced other drivers a lot more often than they do today, sometimes just due to fatigue. We know he drove his own car for 43 laps, then drove the #2 up until lap 152. At that point, there was still more than 2/3 of the race to go in this 5-hour race, so he certainly had time to drive 3 more cars if that fact is accurate. 24. possum posted: 04.30.2020 - 8:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @23 - well, technically he drove Ed Negre's car for 43 laps, not his own, then replaced Ed Negre in Dave Marcis' car. But I'm not sure your point about record keeping is valid. This was the 1970's, not the 1950's, and NASCAR was better about keeping records of who did what. May's obit implies that driving 5 cars is in NASCAR's records...which if it is also makes it odd that no-one seems to have dug it out. So I'm not saying it's not possible for it to have happened (unlike some other driver stories which would require the driver to be in 3 places at once, or something like that). I just find it odd that such a remarkable event is documented in his obit and yet no-where else (other than people quoting the obit). 25. rateus posted: 06.02.2020 - 7:12 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Driver Change - Ricky Rudd qualified the #10 that Bill Champion took over on race day. Strictly speaking only 31 drivers qualified for this race, Tiller, Canavan, Thomas and Harkins all failed to set a time. Joey Arrington, the slowest actual qualifier, failed to break the 100mph barrier and was almost 40mph off pole. 26. Aaron posted: 11.27.2020 - 4:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Pearson wins by 7 laps...wow. Is this a record, or does anyone know what the record is? 27. JSPorts posted: 11.27.2020 - 5:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 1965 Southern 500. Ned Jarrett beat Buck Baker by 14 laps. That's the largest MOV. That race was a lot closer but Cale Yarborough & Sam McQuagg crashed while battling for the lead, and then Jarrett's top 2 contenders (Darel Dieringer & Fred Lorenzen) had engine problems. 28. Corey posted: 11.27.2020 - 5:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @26 Ned Jarrett win the 1965 Southern 500 by 14 laps. 29. Danish_Pie posted: 11.27.2020 - 5:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ned Jarrett won at the Piedmont Fairgrounds in February 1965 by 22 laps over second place G.C. Spencer. 30. JG24 posted: 11.27.2020 - 5:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) That's the largest distance MOV but Jarrett won two other short track races in 1965 by even more than 14 laps. 31. Mile501 posted: 11.27.2020 - 6:59 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @29 - Jarrett also won at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds in May 1965 by 22 laps. I never realized the largest MOV was shared by a pair of races from 1965. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: