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The ''1973 Alamo 500'' was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on June 10, 1973, at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas. Speeds for this race would reach an average of .〔 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 twenty-six minutes to resolve a race spanning 250 laps.〔〔 Richard Petty defeated Darrell Waltrip by at least two laps in front of 27000 people.〔〔 Five cautions were handed out by NASCAR officials for 27 laps.〔 Twenty-eight lead changes were reported amongst five leaders. Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day. Buddy Baker would earn the pole position with a speed of .〔 J.D. McDuffie would make a top-ten finish here;〔〔 a rare occurrence considering that he finished last-place the most often. Richie Panch would become the last-place finisher of the race due to an ignition problem on the first lap.〔〔 This would be the last race done at Texas World Speedway until the 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. There were 38 American-born drivers on the racing grid.〔〔 Bob Whitlow and Ed Sczech would make their NASCAR debuts at this racing event.〔 Petty would receive a prize amount of $17,820 for winning the race ($ when considering inflation) while Panch would collect a mere $920 as his "reward" for finishing in last place ($ 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「1973 Alamo 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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