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The 1969 National 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on October 12, 1969 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. This race is still being held in today's Sprint Cup Series as the ''Bank of America 500''. 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== It took three hours and forty-two minutes to complete the race.〔 Nine cautions were given out for fifty laps but Donnie Allison defeated Bobby Allison by sixteen seconds.〔 Fifty thousand people attended this live race to see speeds averaging and Cale Yarborough earning his pole position by qualifying with a speed of .〔 While most of the drivers were under the banner of a multi-car team during this era, there were still a good amount of drivers who were either independent owner-drivers or were employed by independent-minded vehicle owners. There was a consolation race for the drivers who failed to qualify, only three cars finished that race; the winner was J.C. Spradley who participated in a 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle. Sheraton (a popular chain of hotels and resorts even back then) was the only official driver sponsor that wasn't linked with the automotive industry for this particular race.〔 Other notable drivers in this race include: A.J. Foyt, Coo Coo Marlin, Cale Yarborough, J.D. McDuffie, Wendell Scott, and Richard Petty.〔 This would become the forty-eighth racing officially sanctioned by NASCAR out of the 54 that would be raced in 1969.〔 The 1969 NASCAR Grand National season would later mark its conclusion with the 1969 Texas 500 race on December 7, 1969, with David Pearson emerging as the eventual champion for the year.〔 Pearson would later become recognized for winning races more consistently than Richard Petty but having an abbreviated racing career compared to him.〔 Had Pearson been able to participate in the number of races as Petty, he might have beaten Richard Petty's record of 200 career race wins. The winner's purse was considered to be $20,280 ($ when considering inflation).〔 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「1969 National 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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