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The ''1962 Southern 500'', the 13th running of the event, was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on September 3, 1962 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. One of the oversights of this race happened to one of the vehicles. Ralph Earnhardt drove the #47 car for Jack Smith. The car had "Jack" written on the roof, but Earnhardt drove the race and was involved in a spin entering turn one. ==Summary== It took four hours and fourteen minutes to resolve 364 laps.〔 Sixty thousand people would watch Larry Frank defeat Junior Johnson by a time of five seconds; acquiring his only win in the Cup Series.〔 Gary Sain would make his entrance into NASCAR racing at this race while Roscoe Thompson would retire from NASCAR after racing here. Pontiac vehicles were considered to be the preferred manufacturer for this race; especially the 1962 Catalina model.〔 During the race, Richard Petty had the bravado to drive his vehicle to pit road with only three properly working tires. Matt DeMatthews was the last-place finisher after oil pressure issues forced his 1961 Ford Galaxie out of the race.〔 Fireball Roberts earned the pole position with a speed of but would finish the race in 36th (out of 44 cars) after crashing on lap 74. Larry Frank's winning speed would be .〔 Johnny Allen had an awful crash〔 but left the race without any injury. Due to a scoring error, Junior Johnson was originally flagged as the winner of this race. Johnson went to victory lane; planning to expand his chicken farm with the money he earned from the race. NASCAR officials managed to catch this error and made Larry Frank the winner instead. Individual race earnings for each driver ranged from the winner's share of $21,730 ($ when adjusted for inflation) to the last-place finisher's share of $400 ($ when adjusted for inflation). The total prize purse for this racing event was $71,865 ($ when adjusted for inflation). While a kinescope was responsible for filming this race to an audience that couldn't see it live, ABC's ''Wide World of Sports'' kept a carbon copy of this race on VHS. For superstition reasons from NASCAR driver Joe Weatherly, this race is historically known as the ''12th Revival of the Southern 500'' instead of the ''13th Southern 500''. 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「1962 Southern 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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