1974 Old Dominion 500
Race details | |||
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Race 27 of 30 in the 1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
View from turn one and two bleachers | |||
Date | September 29, 1974 | ||
Location | Martinsville Speedway (Martinsville, Virginia) | ||
Course | Permanent racing facility 0.525 mi (0.844 km) | ||
Distance | 500 laps, 262.5 mi (442.4 km) | ||
Weather | Temperatures reaching a high of 84.9 °F (29.4 °C); wind speeds up to 11.8 miles per hour (19.0 km/h)[1] | ||
Average speed | 66.232 miles per hour (106.590 km/h) | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Richard Petty | Petty Enterprises | |
Most laps led | |||
Driver | Cale Yarborough | Junior Johnson & Associates | |
Laps | 288 | ||
Winner | |||
No. 52 |
Earl Ross |
Junior Johnson & Associates | |
Television in the United States | |||
Network | untelevised | ||
Announcers | none |
The 1974 Old Dominion 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on September 29, 1974, at Martinsville Speedway (Martinsville, Virginia, USA).[2]
Summary
Today, the race is a part of the TUMS Fast Relief 500 annual series of Martinsville races that occur in the autumn for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The race lasted three hours, fifty-eight minutes, and three seconds.[2] Ten cautions were enacted by NASCAR for seventy-nine laps.[2] The event had an attendance of 33,000 people.[2] Canadian Earl Ross (driving for Junior Johnson) defeated his American opponent Buddy Baker by more than one lap.[2] Pole speed was 84.119 miles (135.376 km) per hour while the average speed was 66.232 miles (106.590 km) per hour.[2] Notable drivers at this race included Richard Petty, Elmo Langley, Cale Yarborough, Benny Parsons, Coo Coo Marlin (father of Sterling Marlin), and Richard Childress (future owner of Richard Childress Racing).[2] There was a thirty driver grid (twenty-nine Americans and one Canadian) compared to the forty-three driver grid of today.[2] The winner received $14,550 ($69,578.85 when considering inflation) while starting in eleventh place.[2]
Until Juan Pablo Montoya's most recent victory at Watkins Glen driving the #42 Chevrolet Impala at the 2010 running of the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen race,[3] Canadian Earl Ross' victory in this race was the most recent Cup race won by a foreign driver. The most active Canadian driver in the Sprint Cup Series today is Patrick Carpentier who participates as a road course ringer at the Watkins Glen, Infineon and the Montreal Nationwide Series race. Ross was also the first rookie to win a NASCAR Cup Series race; this record would not be broken until Dale Earnhardt won the 1979 Southeastern 500.[4]
Finishing order
- Earl Ross (the only Canadian to ever win a NASCAR Cup Series race[5])
- Buddy Baker (highest finishing Ford vehicle)
- Donnie Allison
- Dave Marcis (highest finishing Dodge vehicle)
- Richie Panch†
- James Hylton
- Elmo Langley†
- Frank Warren
- Satch Worley*
- Jabe Thomas
- Cale Yarborough*
- Lennie Pond*
- D.K. Ulrich
- Tony Bettenhausen, Jr.*†
- Benny Parsons*†
- J.D. McDuffie*†
- Ed Negre*
- Ray Hendrick* (final Cup Series start)
- Jimmy Hensley*
- David Sisco*
- Sonny Hutchins*†
- Coo Coo Marlin*
- Pee Wee Wentz* (final Cup Series start)
- Richard Childress*
- Walter Ballard*
- Cecil Gordon*†
- Randy Hutchison*
- Jackie Rogers*
- Richard Petty*
- Paul Radford*
* Driver failed to finish race
† Driver is deceased
References
- ↑ "1974 Old Dominion 500 weather information". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 "1974 Old Dominion 500 racing results". Racing Reference. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ↑ "Juan Pablo Montoya wins at road course". ESPN. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
- ↑ "NASCAR Win for Rookie Earl Ross". Scene Daily. Retrieved 2011-01-09.
- ↑ "Canada's only NASCAR Cup Series winner". NASCAR.com. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
Preceded by 1974 Wilkes 400 |
NASCAR Winston Cup Season 1974 |
Succeeded by 1974 National 500 |
Preceded by 1973 |
Old Dominion 500 races 1974 |
Succeeded by 1975 |