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The 1951 Southern 500, the second running of the event, was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on September 3, 1961 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. 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. ==Summary== Four hundred laps were done on a paved oval track spanning for a grand total of .〔 Notable speeds for the race were: and for the pole position speed.〔 Four cautions were handed out by NASCAR official for a duration of twenty-six laps.〔 Herb Thomas defeated Jesse James Taylor by more than one lap in front of forty thousand people.〔 This race would be Red Byron's final race in NASCAR. The race lasted for six hours and thirty minutes;〔 outside the time allotments for modern-day television programming. Eighty-two cars would race in this virtually unregulated "free-for-all."〔 Frank Mundy would become the worst driver in NASCAR Cup Series history by finishing eighty-two spots worse than he started.〔 This would be an impossibility in today's 43-car field. Lee Connell would also set a career record for having the worst career average finish in his 1951 Pontiac vehicle. However, this accomplishment would be impossible today due to the modern rules giving all races a 43-car maximum grid. Total winnings for this race were $23,740 ($ when adjusted for inflation). As it was with all races during this era, the ''1951 Southern 500'' was completely untelevised. The only way that a person could follow the action was to drive to the speedway (to watch it live) or catch it on local radio (if they were lucky to be in the Darlington area at the time). 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「1951 Southern 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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