1959 Firecracker 250

1959 Firecracker 250
Race details[1]
Race 26 of 44 in the 1959 NASCAR Grand National Series season

Track map of Daytona International Speedway showing mainly the speedway.
Date July 4, 1959 (1959-07-04)
Location Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida
Course Permanent racing facility
2.5 mi (4.02 km)
Distance 100 laps, 250 mi (402.336 km)
Weather Hot with temperatures approaching 86 °F (30 °C); wind speeds up to 13 miles per hour (21 km/h)
Average speed 140.581 miles per hour (226.243 km/h)
Attendance 12,900[2]
Pole position
Driver
Jim Stephens
Time 144.997 miles per hour
Most laps led
Driver Fireball Roberts Jim Stephens
Laps 82
Winner
No. 3 Fireball Roberts Jim Stephens

The 1959 Firecracker 250 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on July 4, 1959 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Summary

Contested over 100 laps, it was the twenty-sixth race of the 1959 NASCAR Grand National Series season. Fireball Roberts, driving for Jim Stephens, took his first win of the season, while Joe Weatherly finished second and Johnny Allen finished third.

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.

By the 1990s, NASCAR's top-level series became a media circus that only races at facilities that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Results

Pos Grid Car Driver Owner Car Laps Led
1 1 3 Fireball Roberts Jim Stephens 1959 Pontiac 10082
2 12 12 Joe Weatherly Doc White 1959 Thunderbird 1008
3 11 22 Johnny Allen W.J. Ridgeway 1959 Chevrolet 990
4 547 Jack Smith Jack Smith 1959 Chevrolet 99 1
5 3 37 Eduardo DibosVan Acker 1959 Thunderbird 98 0
6 2 73 Bob Burdick Roy Burdick 1959 Thunderbird 970
7 13 59 Tom Pistone Carl Rupert 1959 Thunderbird96 7
8 21 6 Cotton Owens W.H. Watson 1959 Thunderbird 950
9 14 36 Tommy Irwin Tommy Irwin 1959 Thunderbird 950
10 7 7 Jim Reed Jim Reed 1959 Chevrolet 950
11 17 41 Speedy Thompson Doc White 1959 Thunderbird 940
12 6 44 Gene White 1959 Chevrolet 92 0
13 1820 Benny Rakestraw Spook Crawford 1957 Mercury 92 0
14 16 92 George Alsobrook Joe Jones 1957 Ford92 0
15 29 13 Tommy Thompson Tommy Thompson 1959 Chevrolet90 0
16 34 83 Shorty Rollins A.J. Blackwelder 1958 Ford90 0
17 22 76 Larry Frank Larry Frank1957 Chevrolet 89 0
18 37 19 Herman Beam Herman Beam 1957 Chevrolet89 0
19 20 77 Joe Lee Johnson Joe Lee Johnson 1957 Chevrolet88 0
20 24 14 Ken Rush Manley Britt 1958 Ford 880
21 31 71 Dick Joslin Dick Joslin 1957 Dodge 870
22 10 99 Wilbur Rakestraw Talmadge Cochrane 1957 Mercury 870
23 23 4 Rex White Rex White1959 Chevrolet 86 0
24 33 86 Larry Flynn Larry Flynn 1957 Ford 850
25 32 89 Roy Tyner Roy Tyner 1958 Chevrolet 840
26 4 43 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises 1959 Plymouth 780
27 27 49 Bob Welborn Bob Welborn 1959 Chevrolet77 0
28 26 32 George Green Jess Potter1958 Chevrolet 73 0
29 15 16 Charlie Cregar Happy Steigel 1959 Pontiac 700
30 9 60 John Paschall 1958 Ford 67 0
31 35 66 Dick Foley Dick Foley 1959 Chevrolet 600
32 36 97 Jim Austin Jim Austin 1959 Ford 330
33 19 42 Lee Petty Petty Enterprises 1959 Plymouth27 0
34 30 34 G.C. Spencer G.C. Spencer 1957 Chevrolet16 0
35 25 87 Buck Baker Buck Baker 1959 Chevrolet 120
36 8 10 Elmo Langley Ratus Walters 1959 Buick 110
37 28 82 Joe Eubanks Don Every 1958 Pontiac 20
Source:[2]

Timeline

References

  1. ↑ Weather information for the 1959 Firecracker 250 at The Old Farmers' Almanac
  2. 1 2 "1959 Firecracker 250". Racing-Reference.info. USA Today Sports Media Group. Retrieved 2013-05-18.


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