1967 Gwyn Staley 400
| Race details[1][2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 13 of 49 in the 1967 NASCAR Grand National Series season | |||
| Date | April 16, 1967 | ||
| Official name | Gwyn Staley 400 | ||
| Location | North Wilkesboro Speedway, North Wilkesboro, North Carolina | ||
| Course |
Permanent racing facility 0.625 mi (1.005 km) | ||
| Distance | 400 laps, 250 mi (402 km) | ||
| Weather | Warm with temperatures approaching 84 °F (29 °C); wind speeds up to 7 miles per hour (11 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 93.954 miles per hour (151.204 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 9,400[3] | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Junior Johnson | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Darel Dieringer | Junior Johnson | |
| Laps | 400 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 26 | Darel Dieringer | Junior Johnson | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | untelevised | ||
| Announcers | none | ||
The 1967 Gwyn Staley 400 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on April 16, 1967 at North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
Summary
Darel Dieringer managed to defeat Cale Yarborough by at least one lap in front of 9400 live spectators.[3] 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).[3] Six cautions were handed out by NASCAR officials for 33 laps.[3] Larry Miller received the last-place finish for a problem related to his brakes during the first lap of the race.[3][2] There were 34 drivers on the racing grid; all of them were born in the United States of America and were male.[3]
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
- Darel Dieringer
- Cale Yarborough
- Dick Hutcherson
- Jim Paschal
- Paul Lewis
- Bobby Allison
- Richard Petty
- John Sears
- James Hylton
- J.T. Putney
- Clyde Lynn
- Buck Baker
- Wendell Scott
- Bill Seifert
- Tiny Lund
- Larry Manning
- Wayne Smith
- Elmo Langley
- Max Ledbetter
- Roy Mayne
References
- ↑ "1967 Gwyn Staley 400 weather information". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
- 1 2 "1967 Gwyn Staley 400 race information (second information)". Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet. Retrieved 2011-04-04.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "1967 Gwyn Staley 400 race information". Racing Reference. Retrieved 2011-04-03.
- ↑ "1967 David Pearson race results". Racing Reference. Retrieved 2011-04-04.
| Preceded by 1967 Hickory 250 |
NASCAR Grand National Series Season 1967 |
Succeeded by 1967 Virginia 500 |