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The 1965 Virginia 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on April 25, 1965 at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia. Fred Lorenzen, the winning driver of this racing event, would become the only driver to successfully complete four Martinsville events in the row with a first-place finish. ==Summary== The racing event (in what is now known as the ''Sprint Cup Series'') took approximately three hours and forty-four minutes to completely finish.〔〔 Five cautions were handed out by NASCAR officials for forty-nine laps.〔〔 Fred Lorenzen beat Marvin Panch by two car lengths in front of ten thousand people.〔〔 Curtis Crider retired from NASCAR after competing in this race. Most of the contenders in the race were driving Ford vehicles with the model years ranging from 1963 through 1965.〔〔 Terry Murchinson had a clutch problem with his unsponsored 1964 Ford Galaxie after only two laps of racing and became the last-place finisher of the day.〔〔 Total winnings of the race were $20,725 ($ when adjusted for inflation). Each driver took home winnings between $4,350 ($ when adjusted for inflation) and $250 ($ when adjusted for inflation) on an individual basis. Ford ended up dominating NASCAR in 1965. This came about because Dodge discouraged their vehicles from participating in the league due to the Hemi engine being banned from competition. Petty Enterprises ended up going into drag racing until Dodge solved its issues with the people who ran NASCAR at that time. All but one of the top ten finishers drove a Ford vehicle; the sixth-place finisher drove a Dodge (which no longer races in the NASCAR Cup Series as of 2013). 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「1965 Virginia 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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