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The ''1977 Old Dominion 500'' was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) racing event that took place on September 25, 1977, at the historic Martinsville Speedway;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1977 Old Dominion 500 racing results )〕 a race track that has enjoyed the presence of NASCAR since its first sanctioned race on July 4, 1948. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races are still held on the track today in addition to the Nationwide Series (started in 1982) and Camping World Truck Series (started in 1995). Since the track was repaved back in 1976,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Martinsville Speedway surface information )〕 the one-year-old concrete surface allowed cars to travel at relatively fast speeds for a short track during the 1970s. All of the race car drivers on the 30-car grid were American-born males; no women or foreigners actually qualified for the race.〔 ==Summary== It took three hours and thirty-four minutes for the race to completely progress from the first green flag to the checkered flag.〔 Had the race been held on this day in the year 2010, temperatures would have reached - an increase of 16.8 degrees Fahrenheit from the temperatures of 1977.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 2010 Martinsville, Virginia temperatures (for comparison purposes only) )〕 Five hundred laps on a paved oval track spanning per lap was the official distance of the race dictated by NASCAR.〔 A grand total of was calculated from all the laps of the race.〔 Thirteen lead changes were made as a part of the racing action.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1977 Old Dominion 500 lead change information )〕 Despite popular knowledge shared by non-NASCAR fans, the "500" number that was in the event's title indicated the number of laps that were in the race; as opposed to the number of kilometers or miles that the drivers had to finish.〔 All Martinsville races traditionally advertised the number of laps that a race had because it is a very short track. Cale Yarborough managed to defeat Benny Parsons by 8/10ths of a second in front of 33000 live spectators; nine cautions were given out during the event for 57 laps.〔 Neil Bonnett would qualify for the pole position with a speed of 〔 - which would be the equivalent of 87.637 seconds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1977 Old Dominion 500 qualifying time (in seconds) )〕 However, Yarborough would average a speed of during the entire race.〔 He would retain his championship hopes after this race; being 219 points ahead of Richard Petty in the 1977 NASCAR Cup Series standings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Cale Yarborough's championship hopes )〕 The other top ten finishers were: David Pearson, Richard Petty, Sam Sommers, Jimmy Hensley, Buddy Arrington, James Hylton, Jimmy Means, and Darrell Waltrip.〔 Baxter Price would become the event's last-place finisher with an oil leak on the fourth lap of the race.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1977 Old Dominion 500 racing results (last-place driver information) )〕 Chevrolet vehicles would make up the majority of the grid with Ford, Dodge, Mercury, and Matador holding a sizeable minority of the vehicles that would compete in this event.〔 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「1977 Old Dominion 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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