1973 Rebel 500

1973 Rebel 500
Race details[1][2][3][4]
Race 8 of 28 in the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series

Layout of Darlington Raceway
Date April 15, 1973 (1973-04-15)
Official name Rebel 500
Location Darlington Raceway (Darlington, South Carolina)
Course 1.366 mi (2.198 km)
Distance 367 laps, 501.3 mi (806.7 km)
Weather Temperatures reaching up to 68.9 °F (20.5 °C); wind speeds up to 10.9 miles per hour (17.5 km/h)
Average speed 122.655 mph (197.394 km/h)
Attendance 48,000[2]
Pole position
Driver
Wood Brothers
Most laps led
Driver David Pearson Wood Brothers
Laps 246
Winner
No. 21 David Pearson Wood Brothers

The 1973 Rebel 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) race that took place on April 15, 1973, at Darlington Raceway in the American community of Darlington, South Carolina.

Three hundred and sixty seven laps took place on a paved oval track spanning 1.366 miles (2.198 km) for a grand total of 501.3 miles (806.8 km).[2][3][4] The total time of the race was four hours and four minutes.[2][4] Speeds were: 122.655 miles per hour (197.394 km/h) for the average and 153.463 miles per hour (246.975 km/h) for the pole position.[2] There were eleven cautions for seventy-one laps.[2][3][4] David Pearson defeated Benny Parsons by more than thirteen laps in front of forty-eight thousand people.[2][3][4] Only twelve cars finished this race because of a massive 21-car crash.[2][5]

Qualifying

Grid No. Driver Manufacturer
1 21 David Pearson '71 Mercury
2 11 Cale Yarborough '73 Chevrolet
3 12 Bobby Allison '73 Chevrolet
4 15 Bobby Isaac '72 Ford
5 71 Bobby Baker '73 Dodge
6 72 Benny Parsons '72 Chevrolet
7 24 Cecil Gordon '72 Chevrolet
8 43 Richard Petty '73 Dodge
9 28 Charlie Glotzbach '72 Chevrolet
10 7 Dean Dalton '71 Mercury

Finishing order

  1. David Pearson
  2. Benny Parsons†
  3. Bobby Allison*
  4. Richard Childress (his first top five finish)
  5. J.D. McDuffie†
  6. Dean Dalton (best career finish)
  7. Richard Petty*
  8. Buddy Baker†
  9. Roy Mayne
  10. Raymond Williams
  11. Dick Brooks*†
  12. Earle Canavan
  13. Buddy Arrington*
  14. Wendell Scott†
  15. G.C. Spencer*†
  16. Jabe Thomas
  17. Richie Panch†
  18. Johnny Barnes
  19. Cale Yarborough*
  20. Ed Negre*
  21. Cecil Gordon*†
  22. John Sears*†
  23. James Hylton
  24. Darrell Waltrip*
  25. Walter Ballard*
  26. Charlie Roberts*
  27. Paul Tyler*
  28. Vic Parsons*
  29. David Ray Boggs*
  30. Clarence Lovell*
  31. Charlie Glotzbach*
  32. Frank Warren*
  33. Bobby Isaac*†
  34. Joe Frasson*†
  35. Elmo Langley*†
  36. Lennie Pond*
  37. Larry Smith*†
  38. Earl Brooks*†
  39. Bill Champion*†
  40. Dave Marcis*

† signifies that the driver is known to be deceased
* Driver failed to finish race

References

  1. ↑ "1973 Rebel 500 weather information". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "1973 Rebel 500 racing results". Racing Reference. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "1973 Rebel 500 racing results (third reference)". Database Racing. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "1973 Rebel 500 racing results (fourth reference)". Ultimate Racing History. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
  5. ↑ "21-car crash @ the 1973 Rebel 500 race". How Stuff Works. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
Preceded by
1973 Gwyn Staley 400		 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Season
1973 		Succeeded by
1973 Virginia 500
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