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The ''1953 Wilkes 160'' was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on October 11, 1953 at North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Wilkesboro, North 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== It took one hour and twenty-four minutes to race 160 laps on a dirt oval track spanning .〔 Thirteen lead changes were given amongst four different drivers.〔 Three cautions were given for 16 laps in front of 2000 loyal spectators.〔 The top ten finishers were: Speedy Thompson (defeating Flock by two laps),〔 Fonty Flock, Ray Duhigg (finished in a car owned by Julian Petty), Bob Welborn, Lee Petty (father of Richard Petty who started his NASCAR career six years later), Buck Baker, Bill Blair, Joe Eubanks, Jimmie Lewallen, and Bub King.〔 Ralph Dutton was the last-place finisher of the race.〔 Not all the driver numbers have been preserved through the years due to the habit of early NASCAR scorers to throw non-essential statistics into the garbage after each race.〔 Any statistics that remain were kept because they were deemed to be "essential information".〔 Arden Mounts drove in this race (and later at the 1955 Southern 500 and the 1956 Southern 500).〔 Pete Stewart made his NASCAR Cup Series début here. Although the race had no bearing on the season ending points championship, the race was of extreme importance to Petty.〔 The average speed was while Buck Baker qualified with a speed of .〔〔 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「1953 Wilkes 160」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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