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The ''1969 Texas 500'' was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on December 7, 1969 at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas. Souvenir racing programs were sold at the event for the then-inexpensive cost of $1 USD per copy ($ when adjusted for inflation). ==Summary== Bobby Isaac would win this race in his 1969 Dodge Charger; gaining $15,640 in prize winnings ($ when inflation is taken into effect).〔 Buddy Baker earned the pole position with a speed of while the average speed of the race was .〔 More than 23,000 race fans would see Donnie Allison lose the race by more than two laps.〔 Don Biederman was the only foreign-born driver (he was born in Port Credit, Ontario) and raced under the employ of Bill Champion for this race in a 1968 Ford Torino.〔 Roy Tyner would finish in last place after picking up an engine problem on lap 2 with his 1969 Pontiac vehicle.〔 Other notable drivers to develop problems in the race were: Elmo Langley, Cale Yarborough, Ed Negre, and Bill Seifert.〔 Wendell Scott (the first African American driver in NASCAR history to win a race), Buddy Baker (who was the highest finishing driver to DNF from the race in 8th place〔), and Benny Parsons were three other notable drivers of this decade who participated in the race. Yarborough would acquire a serious injury after clobbering his vehicle into one of the walls. NASCAR on ABC would begin television a select number of races during the 1970 NASCAR Grand National Series season. The televised broadcasting of NASCAR races eventually brought this once-regional motorsport into the national spotlight and eventually gained a major sponsor through Big Tobacco manufacturer R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for the 1971 season. This alliance between tobacco and stock car racing would last until the 2004 NASCAR Cup Series season. Biederman would make his grand exit from the NASCAR Cup Series after this race while Joe Hines would make his introduction into top-level stock car racing here. David Pearson would eventually merge as the eventual champion for the year. Pearson would later be recognized for winning his races more consistently than Richard Petty (who finished 21st in this race and would stop racing in Ford vehicles after this race〔) but would have an abbreviated racing career compared to him. 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 Texas 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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