New Sit Down Down, Together With Concur Onto Your Socks. Nascar Claims No 1 Won The Myers Brothers Memorial 250, Aug. 6, 1971, Race At Bowman Gray, Together With They Certain Equally Hell Ain't Going To Recognize It Was Bobby Allison
To date, at that topographic point convey been 2,373 NASCAR Sprint Cup races contested since the serial began rival on June 19, 1949 at Charlotte Speedway. However, NASCAR official records only recognize winners for 2,372 of those events. The lone Sprint Cup race without a NASCAR acknowledged winner is the 1971 Myers Brothers Memorial 250
Nascar has never acknowledged Bobby Allison’s untainted Cup Series victory at Winston-Salem, North Carolina Aug. 6, 1971, it's known equally the Bowman Gray race.
Bowman Gray Stadium, the oldest NASCAR-sanctioned weekly brusk rails inward the sport. Bill French Republic Sr. himself began promoting races hither inward 1949 with Alvin Hawkins, whose grandson, Gray Garrison, silent runs the place.
Built equally a football game stadium inward 1937 during the afterwards years of the Depression, midget race cars took to the dirt quarter-mile oval ringing the playing champaign a decade later.
The football game history of the stadium is also quite storied. Players such equally Brian Piccolo, the 1964 ACC Player of the Year who led the acre inward rushing together with scoring, played his abode games inward Bowman Gray. Piccolo would afterwards move famous equally the teammate of Gale Sayers with the Chicago Bears, together with the dependent champaign of the 1971 cinema Brian's Song.
Twenty-nine Grand National/Winston Cup events were run at Bowman Gray betwixt 1958 together with '71. Richard Petty became the get-go driver inward NASCAR history to win 100 races when he went to Victory Lane at The Stadium on Aug. 22, 1969.
The end Cup race hither is debated to this solar daytime due to Nascar management throwing the paperwork away, but Bobby Allison won on Aug. 6, 1971. In fact, a few days after the race, NASCAR issued its official word bulletin race study which documented Allison equally the winner of the event.
Allison, who won iii Daytona 500s, had 7 starts at Bowman Gray, winning twice. His end race at that topographic point was on Aug. 6, 1971, when he won the Grand National Race.
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Between 1968 together with 1971, NASCAR promoted Grand American races for what were known equally pony cars. These Mustangs, Camaros, Cougars, Firebirds together with Javelins to a greater extent than oftentimes than non ran standalone events but oftentimes were invited to assist fill upward Grand National (now, Cup) grids.
The get-go combined race was at Bowman Gray Stadium, together with Allison’s Mustang won ahead of Richard Petty’s Plymouth, Jim Paschal’s Javelin, Buck Baker’s Firebird together with Dave Marcis’ Camaro. Ten of the 29 entries were GA cars. Less than one-half the starting champaign remained after the demolition derby fashion racing where GN (big heavy cars) drivers took out their frustrations against the faster, lighter, to a greater extent than nimble together with to a greater extent than probable to win odds on favorites the GA cars (Mustangs, Camaros) which didn't convey to pit for fuel together with tires equally often
Richard Petty is pretty darn honorable virtually it, though, he isn't putting upward a struggle to meet that Allison larn the recognition he earned, together with deserves
Understandably, Petty was unhappy with the grid together with the results. “I figured something similar this would happen,” he said at the time. “They’ll belike win all these (combination) races. (Cup) racing isn’t supposed to move filled with Mustangs together with Camaros.” Forty-six years later, he felt no different. “Bobby won, but shouldn’t convey gotten credit for it,” he insisted at Daytona Beach inward July. “The cars weren’t the same; those cars were equally good different. I shouldn’t convey gotten credit, but Bobby shouldn’t have, either. That was a Cup race, together with he wasn’t inward a Cup car.”
NASCAR credits Allison with 84 victories. His Bowman Gray start together with resulting top-five/top-10 complete are alongside his career stats—but non the victory. Inexplicably, Tiny Lund won ii combination races afterwards that flavor together with both are on his career résumé. Another oddity: NASCAR shows Allison with 10 Cup victories inward 1971, patch about other department of the same tape mass shows 11. Marcis feels Allison deserves credit for winning inward a Mustang since Lund is credited for winning twice inward a Camaro.
Darrell Waltrip together with Allison are tied for 4th all-time, but getting Bowman Gray on Allison’s résumé would motion him past times Waltrip, 85-84. That lonely would order the 80-year-old Hall of Famer immeasurable joy for the balance of his days.
NASCAR historian Buz McKim is also at a loss to explicate what happened, calling it “one tough situation.” He said that a since-deceased NASCAR executive 1 time told him Allison’s motorcar had been disqualified several days after the race. “But that’s equally much equally he’d say,” McKim said. (FYI: There’s no show supporting the belatedly executive’s claim. Also, cars dorsum together with then were inspected on the spot; if the Mustang was legal that Sat night, it wouldn’t convey been disqualified later.)
“This may move 1 that volition never move settled. ... It’s silent the only NASCAR race without an official winner,” McKim said.
The NASCAR HOF doesn't count the win together with pole he got inward the Mustang toward his official statistics; however, they create count those races toward his official number of Cup races. Those races count equally starts but at that topographic point are no starting or finishing positions attributed to them.
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Nascar.com also does non listing the Aug 6, 1971 race equally a win for Petty
So why, does Nascar convey no problem giving wins to the cheats inward the recent season?
Joey Logano was busted after winning at Richmond inward May, Denny Hamlin after winning the Cup together with Xfinity races at Darlington inward September,
Chase Elliott after finishing instant inward the Playoff opener close Chicago inward September
together with Clint Bowyer after finishing 3rd inward the Playoff race at Martinsville inward October.
Despite the rules violations, those finishes rest official because NASCAR only doesn’t vacate checkered-flag results.
That’s why Richard Petty’s 1983 victory at Charlotte — the 198th of his untouchable 200 — remains official despite his car’s oversized engine together with illegal tires.
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