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The ''1968 Peach State 200'' was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on November 3, 1968 at Jefco Speedway in Jefferson, Georgia. 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== Two hundred laps were completed on an oval track spanning .〔 The race took one hour, seventeen minutes, and eleven seconds to completely finish.〔 Notable speeds were: for the average speed and for the pole position speed.〔 Five thousand and two hundred fans attended this race live. Cale Yarborough defeated Richard Petty by half a lap in his 1968 Mercury Cyclone.〔 Bobby Isaac had a crash that made him commit a DNF in 9th place while Stan Meserve was the lowest finishing driver to actually complete the entire race (in 22nd place out of 29 competitors).〔 All the competitors involved in this race were American citizens with no foreign-born participants.〔 Crashes and problems with the stock car racing engine helped to play a part in knocking unwary drivers out of the race. The winner of the race would enjoy his race winnings of $1,000 ($ when considering inflation) USD while the bottom seven finishers were unpaid for racing up to 142 laps.〔〔 Bobby Isaac would lead the most number of laps in the entire race (144 out of 200) in his 1968 Dodge Charger vehicle.〔 NASCAR's family-oriented heritage would shine at this race with the vast number of vehicles that were either owned by the driver himself or by a close relative of the driver. Ford vehicles would make up the majority of the racing grid while Chevrolet and Dodge made up a sizeable amount of the field.〔 Legendary racing team Holman Moody would enjoy a level of success at this event that would eventually be equalled at the other events throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bill Ervin would be black flagged on the fourth lap of this race due to his vehicle being unable to comply with the minimum racing speeds necessary for NASCAR racing. Don Tomberlin made his NASCAR debut here while Dexter Gainey and Stan Meserve would end their respective NASCAR careers after this event. 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「1968 Peach State 200」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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