1970 National 500

Auto race held at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1970 February 2025 CUST Race 44 of 48 in the 1970 NASCAR Grand National Series season National 500 Weather information for the 1970 National 500 at The Old Farmer's Almanac 1970 10 11 1970 44 48 Lowe's Motor Speedway.svg Layout of Charlotte Motor Speedway National 500 Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina 1.500 2.414 334 500 804 Warm with temperatures of 82.9 F C; wind speeds of 6 mph km/h 123.246 mph on 50,000 Charlie Glotzbach Nichels Engineering 34.335 seconds LeeRoy Yarbrough Junior Johnson & Associates 112 12 LeeRoy Yarbrough Junior Johnson & Associates ABC Jim McKay Chris Economaki The 1970 National 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series stock car race that was held on October 11, 1970, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. There were 14 winged cars involved in the race; including Lorenzen, Baker, Vandiver, Richard Petty, and Glotzbach. Race report Out of the 62 cars that were reported as having been entered on October 9, 1970, only 43 of them were properly recorded by NASCAR officials. Former NASCAR star Curtis Turner had formed an agreement with track president Richard Howard to run the race in a one-off, but he was killed in a plane crash days before the event.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41168946/ Flamboyant Curtis Turner Was A Track Showman AP Asheville Citizen Newspapers.com October 6, 1970 January 17, 2020 Only 40 of 43 officially registered drivers qualified for the starting grid. George Eaton and Buck Baker were recorded as sharing the No. 58 vehicle.1970 National 500 racing information at Racing-Reference Drivers that did not qualify were Buck Baker, George Eaton, Raymond Williams and Dick Polling. Cale Yarborough was credited with the last-place finish on lap 10 due to a crash with the wall. Fifty thousand racing fans would see 23 different lead changes and eight cautions for a period of 63 laps. An unusually lengthy race for the early 1970s, the 1970 National 500 lasted a grueling four hours and three minutes. This race marked Kmart's debut as a NASCAR sponsor as they backed Fred Lorenzen's white #3 Dodge Daytona. The winged Charger would fly high today as Fast Freddie brought it home with a podium finish and led a few laps en route. The race was held on a dry circuit; with no precipitation recorded around the speedway. http://www.sercc.com/CharlotteNASCARClimatology.pdf Charlotte NASCAR Climatology SERCC 2018-09-12 2018-09-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20180908092914/http://www.sercc.com/CharlotteNASCARClimatology.pdf dead LeeRoy Yarbrough would defeat Bobby Allison under the yellow flag. This would become Yarbrough's final win in the NASCAR Cup Series.1970 National 500 racing information at Race-Database Charlie Glotzbach would qualify for the pole position in this race by driving speeds up to 157.273 mph km/h during the solo sessions. Other notable drivers at this race were David Pearson, Coo Coo Marlin, Frank Warren, Richard Petty and J.D. McDuffie. A lot of the drivers did not finish the race because of crashes on the track. Eleven notable crew chiefs participated in the race; including Herb Nab, Junie Donlavey, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver and Banjo Matthews.Crew chief information for the 1970 National 500 at Racing Reference 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. Qualifying Grid No. Car number Driver Manufacturer Speed Speed in miles per hourQualifying information for the 1970 National 500 https://web.archive.org/web/20170410214304/http://www.racing-reference.info/getqualify/1970-44/W April 10, 2017 at Racing Reference Qualifying time Qualifying time in seconds Owner 1 99 Charlie Glotzbach '69 Dodge 157.273 34.335 Ray Nichels 2 43 Richard Petty '70 Plymouth 156.521 34.500 Petty Enterprises 3 6 Buddy Baker '69 Dodge 156.499 34.505 Cotton Owens 4 3 Fred Lorenzen '69 Dodge 154.883 34.865 Ray Fox 5 98 LeeRoy Yarbrough '69 Mercury 154.789 34.886 Junior Johnson 6 40 Pete Hamilton '70 Plymouth 154.714 34.903 Petty Enterprises 7 17 David Pearson '69 Ford 154.523 34.944 Holman-Moody 8 21 Cale Yarborough '69 Mercury 153.876 35.093 Wood Brothers 9 71 Bobby Isaac '69 Dodge 152.797 35.341 Nord Krauskopf 10 22 Bobby Allison '69 Dodge 152.771 35.347 Mario Rossi Top 10 finishers Pos Grid No. Car number Driver Manufacturer Laps Laps completed Winnings Laps led Laps as the lead driver Time/Status 1 5 98 LeeRoy Yarbrough Mercury 334 $23,700 112 4:03:28 2 10 22 Bobby Allison Dodge 334 $10,950 22 Lead lap under caution 3 4 3 Fred Lorenzen Dodge 333 $6,400 3 +4 laps 4 15 72 Benny Parsons Ford 329 $3,955 0 +8 laps 5 9 71 Bobby Isaac Dodge 323 $3,330 2 Engine failure 6 18 64 Elmo Langley Mercury 321 $2,265 0 +16 laps 7 19 10 Bill Champion Ford 320 $2,065 0 +17 laps 8 20 5 Buddy Arrington Dodge 319 $1,965 0 +19 laps 9 36 46 Roy Mayne Chevrolet 317 $1,955 0 +21 laps 10 22 39 Friday Hassler Chevrolet 315 $1,765 0 Engine failure References 1970 Wilkes 400 1970 Old Dominion 500 NASCAR Grand National Series season 1969 1969 1971 National 500 races 1970 National 500 National 500 National 500 Category:NASCAR races at Charlotte Motor Speedway