Darlington RACE thread ---

Kvapil sucks. Who would hire that no-talent wife beater?

And why does Corvetteparts.com always sponsor a Ford?
 
Smoke needs to find his groove tonight, I don't see the famous great second half comebacks may not fly this year.
 
Those two guys with two tires had held on decently.
 
Take no tires and run the inside!

Fireball Roberts earned the pole position for the beginning of the race driving a maximum speed of 110.682 miles per hour or 178.125 kilometres per hour.[3] The average speed of the race (with full racing traffic), however, was 92.281 miles per hour or 148.512 kilometres per hour.[3] Out of the 336 laps, there were eight yellow flag periods consisting of fifty-one laps.[3] Fifty thousand people attended the live event to see sixty-nine cars race (less than half of them managed to withstand the pressures of the race).[3] Regulations made decades after this race would finally standardize the field to forty-three racing vehicles; a far cry from the fairly unregulated days that the 1955 Southern 500 took place in.
Vehicles ranged in production year from the 1953 models that were driven by the less affluent teams to the 1955 models driven by wealthy teams like Petty Enterprises (now Richard Petty Motorsports with the merger of Gillett Everham Motorsports in 2009).[3] All drivers were expected to race in the vehicles that they personally drove to the racetrack in by virtue of NASCAR's then-strict homologation rules against producing vehicles specifically for racing. Some of the other notable NASCAR Grand National Series drivers that participated in this racing event were Junior Johnson, Ned Jarrett, and Lee Petty.[3]



Herb Thomas would end up winning the race after five hours, twenty-five minutes, and twenty-five seconds of racing.[
 
Interesting to see how Harvick, Logano, Gordon & Busch's cars react to the track under the lights.
 
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