1964 Daytona 500

1964 Daytona 500
Race details
Race 8 of 62 in the 1964 NASCAR Grand National Series season

Track map of Daytona International Speedway showing mainly the speedway.
Date February 23, 1964 (1964-02-23)
Location Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.
Course Permanent racing facility
2.5 mi (4.02 km)
Distance 200 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km)
Weather Cold with temperatures approaching 55 °F (13 °C); wind speeds approaching 13 miles per hour (21 km/h)[1]
Average speed 154.334 miles per hour (248.376 km/h)
Pole position
Driver
Ray Nichels
Time 174.91 miles per hour (281.49 km/h)
Most laps led
Driver Richard Petty Petty Enterprises
Laps 184
Winner
No. 43 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises

The 1964 Daytona 500, was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on February 23, 1964 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Summary

The race was won by Richard Petty driving a 1964 Plymouth. Petty drove his number 43 to victory in 3 hours and 14 minutes. There were three caution flags that slowed the race for 19 laps. A new Plymouth racing machine debuted in this race; NASCAR ordered the teams who had it to ordered to sandbag it during practice and qualifying due to their superiority.[2]

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.

Bobby Marshman would retire from NASCAR Grand National Series racing after the conclusion of this event.[2] For some drivers, this would be their last Daytona 500, as the 1960s were an especially brutal era for NASCAR. Jimmy Pardue killed later in the year in a test crash. Billy Wade was killed in a tire test in January 1965. Bobby Marshman killed in a test crash in late 1964 at Phoenix. Fireball Roberts died in July from injuries inflicted while racing in the World 600 and Joe Weatherly was killed at Riverside early that year.

Top ten finishers

Pos[2] Grid No. Driver Manufacturer Laps Winnings
1 2 43 Richard Petty Plymouth 200 $33,300
2 6 54 Jimmy Pardue Plymouth 199 $11,600
3 1 25 Paul Goldsmith Plymouth 198 $8,600
4 9 21 Marvin Panch Ford 198 $4,350
5 10 15 Jim Paschal Dodge 197 $3,700
6 21 1 Billy Wade Mercury 197 $2,500
7 11 16 Darel Dieringer Mercury 197 $2,000
8 14 29 Larry Frank Ford 197 $1,750
9 3 3 Junior Johnson Dodge 197 $1,500
10 19 17 Dave MacDonald Mercury 196 $1,200

Timeline

References

  1. ↑ "Weather of the 1964 Daytona 500". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
  2. 1 2 3 "1964 Daytona 500". racing-reference.info. Retrieved June 2, 2012.


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