1960 International 200
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 22 of 44 in the 1960 NASCAR Grand National Series season | |||
| Date | June 16, 1960 | ||
| Location | Bowman-Gray Stadium (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 0.250 mi (0.421 km) | ||
| Distance | 200 laps, 50.0 mi (35.0 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures up to 90 °F (32 °C); wind speeds up to 15.9 miles per hour (25.6 km/h)[1] | ||
| Average speed | 45.782 miles per hour (73.679 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Lee Petty | Petty Enterprises | |
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Glen Wood | Wood Brothers | |
| Laps | 200 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 16 |
Glen Wood |
Wood Brothers | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | untelevised | ||
| Announcers | none | ||
The 1960 International 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series racing event that took place on June 26, 1960 at Bowman-Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.[2]
Summary
It took one hour and five minutes to resolve two hundred laps of racing.[2] The average speed of the race was 45.872 miles per hour (73.824 km/h) while Lee Petty would qualify for the pole position with a speed of 47.850 miles per hour (77.007 km/h).[2] These speeds would be relatively slow on today's highway systems for passenger automobiles. Glen Wood managed to defeat Petty by half a lap in the actual race.[2] The foreign makes that participated in this race were the MG (as a part of Great Britain's now-defunct MG Cars) and the Triumph (as a part of Great Britain's now-defunct Triumph Motor Company).[2] Smokey Cook would end up as the last-place finisher in a 1952 MG T-type.[2]
The other finishers in the top ten were: Rex White, Richard Petty, Ned Jarrett, Joe Weatherly, Tommy Irwin, Buck Baker, Fred Harb, and Jimmy Pardue.[2] Lowe's appeared as an official NASCAR sponsor for the first time in its history.[2] Ten thousand and five hundred people appeared in person to watch this live untelevised race.[2] This would be the 22nd race out of the 44 raced that year; making this race the official halfway point of the 1960 Grand National Series season.[2]
Individual race winnings ranged from the winner's share of $1,125 ($8,877.25 in today's money) to the last-place finisher's share of $140 ($1,104.72 in today's money). NASCAR allowed the organizers of this event to give out a grand total of $4,755 for all the qualifying drivers ($37,521.18 in today's money).[3]
References
- ↑ "1960 International 200 weather information". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 "1960 International 200 information". Racing Reference. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
- ↑ "1960 International 200 prize purse information". Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
| Preceded by 1960 World 600 |
NASCAR Grand National Series Season 1960 |
Succeeded by 1960 Firecracker 250 |