1967 Gwyn Staley 400

The 1967 Gwyn Staley 400 is a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series, also formerly known as the Winston Cup Series and the Winston Cup Grand National Series) racing event that took place on April 16, 1967, at North Wilkesboro Speedway in the American community of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.^[2][3]

Summary

Darel Dieringer managed to defeat Cale Yarborough by at least one lap in front of 9400 live spectators.^[2] While the pole position speed was 104.603 miles per hour (168.342 km/h), the actual racing speeds approached 93.594 miles per hour (150.625 km/h). Two hours and forty minutes were required to fully resolve 400 laps of action that took place on a paved track spanning 0.675 miles (1.086 km).^[2] Six cautions were handed out by NASCAR officials for 33 laps.^[2] Larry Miller received the last-place finish for a problem related to his brakes during the first lap of the race.^[2][3] There were 34 drivers on the racing grid; all of them were born in the United States of America and were male.^[2]

Dieringer would make his last NASCAR Cup Series victory during this race. David Pearson would leave Cotton Owens' team (for Holman Moody^[4]) after this race was finished.

The race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.

Top twenty finishers

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