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1961 Greenville 200
The 1961 Greenville 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on April 1, 1961, at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in Greenville, South Carolina. Race report After nearly two hours of racing 200 laps, Emanuel Zervakis emerged as the winner as he managed to defeat Richard Petty by an unknown margin in front of a crowd of 5000 people. This would make the first of two career victories for Zervakis and the only time that a driver with the number 85 to have two career victories in NASCAR Cup Series history.''1961 Greenville 200'' racing information at Racing Reference All 21 of the drivers on the grid were -born males. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 In NASCAR
This category contains articles on individual years in NASCAR. {{Commons cat, NASCAR seasons Seasons A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperate and po ... Seasons in stock car racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Smith (American Racing Driver, Born 1924)
Jack Thomas Smith (May 24, 1924 - October 17, 2001) was an American stock car racer. He raced in the first NASCAR race, in 1949, and is a member of the NMPA Hall of Fame in Darlington, South Carolina. Biography Smith was born in Metropolis, Illinois and then moved to Georgia when he was two years old, settling in Roswell, Georgia. Jack got his start in the automotive industry by working in his father shop at a young age. Jack worked at a service station in the 1940's near Roswell. He began racing against local bootleggers on rough dirt tracks and asphalt superspeedways, and across fields. He began racing in 1947 after building a car. He made his debut in NASCAR's first race, in 1949 at the Charlotte Speedway, and finished 13th. At the 1958 Southern 500 at Darlington, Jack trailed a car blowing up and getting caught in the oil, his car started tumble, flipping his car five times and rolling into the parking lot, after a doctor checked him out, he came out un-injured and drove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Cox (racing Driver)
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Bob Barron
Robert Frank Barron (January 13, 1928 – August 2, 1991) was a NASCAR driver from Bradenton, Florida. Life and career Barron was born in American Falls, Idaho in January 1928. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He completed in thirty-two Grand National/Nextel Cup Series events in his career, earning five top-tens. Barron debuted to NASCAR in 1960, racing his own car in the fall race at Charlotte. Starting 46th in the fifty-car field, Barron completed most of the race before finishing 30th with mechanical woes. The rest of Barron's starts came in 1961, when Barron completed 31 of the 52 races in the season en route to a 29th-place effort in the points. He earned a 9th-place effort in his season debut at Charlotte Fairgrounds. He would finish 9th twice more in the year, along with a career-best 8th place showing at Richmond and Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Beam
Herman Beam (December 11, 1929 – August 27, 1980) was a NASCAR Grand National Series driver and team owner from Johnson City, Tennessee who was active as a driver from 1957 until 1963. He is famous for holding the longest streak of races without a DNF, with 84, from 1961 until 1963. He had 57 Top 10 finishes in 194 races. Driving career Beam made his Grand National debut in 1957, finishing 20th in a self-owned Chevy. In 1958, he ran 20 races, with a single top 10 finish. 1959 was his best season, where he started 30 of 44 events, had 12 top 10 finishes including his first career top 5, and finished 4th in points. He made 2 starts in the NASCAR Convertible Division that year. In 1961, Beam suffered an engine failure at Richmond International Raceway. It was the last DNF for 84 races, starting the streak of finishing races that he is most famous for, which ended at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 1963. Beam retired from racing that year, but continued to field cars for other drivers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Crider
Curtis "Crawfish" Crider (October 7, 1930 – December 21, 2012) was an American stock car racing driver, and a pioneer in the early years of NASCAR. Career Born in Danville, Virginia, he was one of the hardest working and underfinanced racers to ever drive the stock car circuit. Landing in a lake eventually earned him the nickname "Crawfish". Like most early NASCAR racers, Crider was a bootlegger and delivered moonshine to his customers. From 1959 to 1965, this driver has competed in 232 races in his seven-year career and accumulated a grand total of $58740 ($ when adjusted for inflation). Crider's average start was in 19th place while his average finish was in 15th place. Following his retirement from NASCAR competition, Crider competed in late model stock car racing in Florida, competing primarily at Volusia County Speedway and winning the Florida State Championship in 1972, 1973 and 1974. He released a book in 1987, called "The Road to Daytona". He operated an automobile res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Green (racing Driver)
George Green (September 15, 1927 – November 18, 2008) was an American NASCAR Grand National Series driver. He finished 55th at both the 1959 Daytona 500 and the 1960 Daytona 500, with him exiting the 1960 race with a gas tank explosion. He also finished 16th in the 1962 NASCAR Grand National Series The NASCAR Cup Series is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Division, and from 1950 to 1970 it was known as the Grand National Division. In 1971, ... standings, racing 46 of 53 total races. Green was also a sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 18, 2008, at the age of 81. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, George 1927 births 2008 deaths NASCAR drivers Racing drivers from Tennessee Sportspeople from Johnson City, Tennessee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lewis (racing Driver)
Paul Lewis (born September 28, 1932) is a retired NASCAR Grand National Series race car driver whose career spanned from 1960 to 1968''Paul Lewis'' racing information at Racing Reference while primarily driving a #2 vehicle owned by . Career Driver Lewis made his debut into top-level professional stock car racing in 1960 at the age of 27. He originally drove a . but also raced Ford, Dodge, and Plymouth cars. During his 10 sea ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Waddell
Robert Waddell (5 September 1939 – 25 August 2021) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre forward. Waddell was part of the Dundee side that won the Scottish league championship in 1962. He also played for Blackpool, Bradford Park Avenue Bradford (Park Avenue) Association Football Club is an association football club based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in , at the sixth tier of the English football league system. The name derived from their former hom ..., East Fife and Montrose. References Dundee F.C. players 1939 births 2021 deaths Scottish men's footballers Men's association football forwards Footballers from Kirkcaldy Blackpool F.C. players Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. players East Fife F.C. players Montrose F.C. players Newburgh F.C. players Scottish Football League players English Football League players {{Scotland-footy-forward-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Harb
Fareed "Fred" Joseph Harb Jr. (June 14, 1930December 18, 2016) was an American stock car racing driver. The High Point, North Carolina resident made 144 NASCAR Grand National Series starts from 1955 to 1965, earning 13 top fives and 42 top tens. He raced in the NASCAR Convertible Division, making 24 starts. Racing career Early years Harb started his NASCAR career in 1955, entering two races. He finished eleventh at Montgomery Speedway and twelfth at Orange Speedway driving for Ernest Woods. In 1956, Harb cashed in on local racing, winning $50 for finishing seventeenth in the first race of the season at Hickory Motor Speedway and another $50 for finishing 24th at Southern States Fairgrounds in Charlotte. That race he drove for Joe Blair, relative of friend Bill Blair. In 1957 he also ran three races, all within the Carolinas, and finishing inside the top twenty for all of them but not recording a top ten. Prime years 1958 brought unprecedented success for Harb, as he ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Thunderbird
The Ford Thunderbird (colloquially called the T-Bird) is a personal luxury car produced by Ford from model years 1955 until 1997 and 2002 until 2005 across 11 distinct generations. Introduced as a two-seat convertible, the Thunderbird was produced in a variety of body configurations. These included a four-seat hardtop coupe, four-seat convertible, five-seat convertible and hardtop, four-door pillared hardtop sedan, six-passenger hardtop coupe, and five-passenger pillared coupe, with the final generation designed again as a two-seat convertible. Ford targeted the two-seat Thunderbird as an upscale model, but the 1958 model year design introduced a rear seat and arguably marked the expansion of a market segment eventually known as personal luxury cars. This class of cars was positioned to emphasize driving comfort and convenience features over handling and high-speed performance. From 1968 through 1998, Lincoln-Mercury marketed rebadged variants of the Thunderbird as the Contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Irwin (racing Driver)
Thomas Irwin may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Thomas Caulfield Irwin (1823–1892), Irish poet, writer and classical scholar * Tom Irwin (actor) (born 1956), American film, television, and stage actor * Tom Irwin or "Shotgun Tom" Kelly (born 1949), American radio and television personality Sports * Tom Irwin (dual player) (1873–1956), Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler, referee and Gaelic games administrator * Tommy Irwin (baseball) (1912–1996), baseball player * Tommy Irwin (footballer) (born 1932), Scottish footballer Others * Thomas Irwin (American politician) (1785–1870), U.S. representative from Pennsylvania * Thomas Irwin (Canadian politician) (1889–1962), Canadian member of the House of Commons in 1957–1958 * Thomas Irwin (trade unionist) (died 1941 or 1942), British trade unionist and politician See also * Tommy Irvin Thomas Telford Irvin (July 14, 1929 – September 14, 2017) was an American politician who served as Georgia's Commissioner of Agricultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
