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The ''1949 Wilkes 200'' was a NASCAR Strictly Stock (now Sprint Cup Series) racing event that took place on October 16, 1949.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1949 Wilkes 200 racing results (second reference) )〕 Ten thousand people would attend this live racing event where Kenneth Wagner qualified for the race with a pole position speed of – the equivalent of 31.27 seconds.〔〔 The entire race took place on a dirt track spanning per lap.〔〔 Weather conditions for the race were recorded at nearby Hickory Regional Airport; a public airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of nearby Hickory, North Carolina.〔 ==Summary== This would be the final race of the 1949 NASCAR season and would take place at North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.〔〔 Bob Flock would defeat Lee Petty by an entire football field – – to win NASCAR's first racing event with an established name.〔〔 Flock would earn a mere $1,500 in prize winnings ($ when inflation is taken into effect).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Bob Flock's prize winnings (1949 Wilkes 200) )〕 Frank Mundy would receive a last-place finish for only finishing 38 laps out of the mandated 200 laps.〔〔 Bill Blair would lead the most laps in this race with 180 laps led out of 200.〔 Sponsors for the drivers included: Bob Flock Garage, the Green Leaf Cafe, Parks Novelty, Moyer Co., and LaBelle Motors.〔 The race took one hour and fifty-two minutes to complete resolve itself.〔 Red Byron would go on to win NASCAR's first ever championship while Sara Christian would become one of its first female drivers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 NASCAR's first champion and first female driver )〕 Byron almost became a cripple after being shot by an enemy fighter plane while serving as a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber during World War II. He spent two years in military hospitals rehabilitating his leg so that he could compete in NASCAR after the war ended.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1949 Wilkes 200」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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