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The 1954 Mid-South 250 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on October 10, 1954 at Memphis-Arkansas Speedway in LeHi, Arkansas. 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== One hundred and sixty seven laps were raced on a dirt track spanning .〔 Twelve thousand people would attend this live untelevised race where Buck Baker would win in his 1954 Oldsmobile vehicle.〔 Other notable competitors included Lee Petty (who led 150 laps which was considered to be the most laps), Marvin Panch, Jimmie Lewallen, Arden Mounts, and Junior Johnson.〔 The average speed of the race was and the race took two hours, forty-eight minutes, and fifty-one seconds to complete.〔 There was no record of the pole speed, the number of cautions, or even the margin of victory that Buck Baker had over Dick Rathmann.〔 This event was the 35th race out of 37 in the 1954 Grand National season.〔 Even though it was advertised as a 250-mile race, the actual distance of the race was . One of the major sponsors of the race was for the gasoline brand ''Pure'';〔 which is now a defunct oil company that services ten Southern states as a cooperative. Vapor lock from the fuels being used in the NASCAR Cup Series back then led to the elimination of three drivers from the race (John Erickson, Bud Harless, and Charles Brinkley).〔 Ever since NASCAR has made the use of fuel injection mandatory in all of their Cup Series vehicles, the vapor lock problem has been solved permanently. Richard Jones achieved the race's last place finish due to a crash on the first lap of the race.〔 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「1954 Mid-South 250」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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