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The ''1972 Old Dominion 500'' was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that was held on September 24, 1972, at Martinsville Speedway in the American community of Martinsville, Virginia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1972 Old Dominion 500 racing information )〕 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== Five hundred laps were done on a paved track spanning in a time of three hours and forty-five minutes.〔 Richard Petty would defeat Bobby Allison by a time of six seconds in front of 31,000 live audience members.〔 Exactly ten minutes from the race along with a flyover by the local military jets were used in the 1973 American film ''The Last American Hero''. While Richard Petty and Bobby Allison got filmed most of the time, a moment involving Ray Hendrick's #2 vehicle crashing on lap 311 was also a notable event during the filming. Allison would earn the pole position with a speed of .〔 The average speed of the race, however, would be a mere .〔 Eight cautions were given out for 58 laps in the entire race.〔 All thirty-six of the qualifying drivers on the grid were male and born somewhere in the United States of America.〔 Originally, 56 drivers auditioned for this race; including Joe Frasson, who was one of the ones who failed to qualify. Bill Shirey would be the unfortunate last-place finisher due to an overheating issue on lap 19.〔 LeeRoy Yarbrough and Fred Lorenzen would retire from NASCAR after this race.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1972 Old Dominion 500 racing information )〕 Richard Petty would go on to win the championship shortly after this race was over while Bobby Allison would find a new employer named Ralph Moody for the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Results of the Petty/Allison battle )〕 The total purse of this racing event was $46,650 ($ when considering inflation); the first-place finisher received $7,350 ($ when considering inflation) while the last-place finisher received $425 ($ when considering inflation).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1972 Old Dominion 500 racing information )〕 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「1972 Old Dominion 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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