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The ''1973 Gwyn Staley 400'' was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing event that took place at North Wilkesboro Speedway on April 8, 1973 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Before the race, Yvon DuHamel got to warm up the spectators for the race by making a few laps on his Kawasaki motorcycle. The race would take two hours and thirty-four minutes to resolve itself on a paved oval track spanning in the American community of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.〔 A single caution was given for nine laps.〔〔 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== A souvenir program of the 1973 Gwyn Staley 400 cost $1.00 when it was sold prior to the race ($ when adjusted for inflation). Bobby Allison would qualify for the pole position with a speed of while the average race speed was .〔〔 Parsons would briefly lead the race from lap 85 to lap 90 while Petty would dominate laps 11 to 84 (in addition to laps 91 to 400).〔 Cecil Gordon was on the lead lap late in the race until a flat tire on a restart cost him a chance at a respectable finish. His brother Lee had chosen to run a higher gear so as to maintain traction due to less wheel spin off the turns. Sixteen thousand people watched Richard Petty defeat Benny Parsons by at least four laps;〔 resulting in his 151st NASCAR Winston Cup Series win.〔 A little known fact about this race was that Benny Parsons was the president of a Parent-Teacher Association (based out of an Ellerbe, North Carolina elementary school) and a NASCAR champion at the same time.〔 Out of the drivers in the 30-car grid, 28 of them were American-born while two were Canadian (Vic Parsons and Yvon Duhamel - a French Canadian from Quebec〔).〔 Rick Newsom would end up being the last-place finisher with an engine problem on lap 2.〔 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 Gwyn Staley 400」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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