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The ''1973 Capital City 500'' was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing event that took place on September 9, 1973, at Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway (now Richmond International Raceway) in Richmond, Virginia. 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== Richard Petty defeated Cale Yarborough by at least two laps in front of 18000 live spectators.〔 It took four hours and thirteen minutes to finish the 500-lap race with the track spanning exactly .〔 Petty had won six other races at this track before extending his lucky streak to 7 at the end of this event. Bobby Allison acquired the pole position with a qualifying speed of while the average race speed was .〔 Five cautions were given out for 123 laps in this racing event.〔 Baxter Price received the last-place finish due to a crash on lap that also took out nine other guys that were starting lap 4.〔〔 Out of the 34 races on the grid, 33 were born in the United States while Vic Parsons was born in Canada.〔 J.D. McDuffie and Darrell Waltrip were also two notable figures that participated in this race.〔〔〔 The future owner of Richard Childress Racing (Richard Childress) would also make a racing appearance here.〔〔〔 There were threatening skies from the green flag; causing most of the race to be done under the yellow flag. No attempt was made to postpone the race or to call it "official." A record amount of 86 laps were done under caution until the skies became blue again. Besides the weather, a red flag also held up the race for 70 minutes as Price and Bill Champion had to go to the hospital for their respective injuries. 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 Capital City 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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