1968 Peach State 200

1968 Peach State 200
Race details
Race 49 of 49 in the 1968 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season
Date November 3, 1968 (1968-November-03)
Location Gresham Motorsports Park (Jefferson, Georgia)
Course Permanent racing facility
0.500 mi (0.800 km)
Distance 200 laps, 100 mi (150 km)
Avg Speed 77.737 miles per hour (125.106 km/h)
Pole position
Driver David Pearson Holman-Moody
Most laps led
Driver Bobby Isaac Nord Krauskopf
Laps 144
Winner
21
 Cale Yarborough
 Wood Brothers Racing
Television
Network untelevised
Announcers none

The 1968 Peach State 200 is a NASCAR Grand National (now Sprint Cup Series) race that took place on November 3, 1968 in Gresham Motorsports Park in the American community of Jefferson, Georgia.[1]

Summary

Two hundred laps were completed on a oval track spanning 0.500 miles (0.805 km).[1] The race took one hour, seventeen minutes, and eleven seconds to completely finish.[1] Notable speeds were: 77.737 miles per hour (125.106 km/h) for the average speed and 90.694 miles per hour (145.958 km/h) for the pole position speed.[1] Five thousand and two hundred fans attended this race live. Cale Yarborough defeated Richard Petty by half a lap in his 1968 Mercury Cyclone.[1] Bobby Isaac had a crash that made him commit a DNF in 9th place while Stan Meserve was the lowest finishing driver to actually complete the entire race (in 22nd place out of 29 competitors).[1] All the competitors involved in this race were American citizens with no foreign-born participants.[1]

The winner of the race would enjoy his race winnings of $1,000 ($6,312.86 in today's money) USD.[1] Bobby Isaac would lead the most number of laps in the entire race (144 out of 200) in his 1968 Dodge Charger vehicle.[1]

Finishing order

  1. Cale Yarborough
  2. Richard Petty
  3. David Pearson
  4. James Hylton
  5. LeeRoy Yarbrough
  6. John Sears
  7. Friday Hassler
  8. Elmo Langley
  9. Bobby Isaac*
  10. Neil Castles
  11. Clyde Lynn
  12. Jabe Thomas
  13. J.D. McDuffie
  14. Wendell Scott
  15. Don Timberlin
  16. Henley Grey
  17. E.J. Trivette
  18. Bill Seifert
  19. Cecil Gordon
  20. Ed Negre
  21. Ervin Pruett
  22. Stan Meserve
  23. Paul Dean Holt*
  24. Dexter Gainey*
  25. Earl Brooks*
  26. Roy Tyner*
  27. Bobby Allison*
  28. G.C. Spencer*
  29. Bill Ervin* (black flagged)

* Driver failed to finish race

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "1968 Peach State 200 information". Racing-Reference. http://racing-reference.info/race?id=1968-49&series=W. Retrieved 2010-10-17. 
Preceded by
1968 American 500		 NASCAR Grand National Season
1968-69		 Succeeded by
1969 Georgia 500
Preceded by
1967 Western North Carolina 500		 NASCAR season-ending races
1949-present		 Succeeded by
1969 Texas 500