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The ''1960 National 400'' was a Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on October 16, 1960 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, 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 any more. ==Summary== Bob Barron and Friday Hassler would make their NASCAR Cup Series debut appearances here. It took three hours and thirty-two minutes to complete 267 laps on a paved oval track spanning .〔 Seven cautions were waved by NASCAR officials for 34 laps.〔 Speedy Thompson defeated Richard Petty by one lap and twelve seconds in front of nearly 30,000 spectators while going ;〔 helping the Wood Brothers' racing team earn their one of their first NASCAR wins as owners. Fireball Roberts was the qualifier for the pole position with a speed of .〔 He would eventually blow a tire on lap 232; causing him to crash and lose the lead. There were fifty drivers who would ultimately participate in this event; all of them were American-born males.〔 Fred Lorenzen would earn the event's last-place finish for a vibration problem that he developed on lap 4; earning only $200 for that day ($ when adjusted for inflation).〔 Lowe's was one of the corporate sponsors of this racing event;〔 they still sponsor NASCAR to this very day through frequent Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson. 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「1960 National 400」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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