1965 Atlanta 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 9 of 55 in the 1965 NASCAR Grand National Series season | |||
Layout of Atlanta International Speedway, used until 1996
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| Date | April 11, 1965 | ||
| Official name | Atlanta 500 | ||
| Location | Atlanta International Raceway, Hampton, Georgia | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.500 mi (2.400 km) |
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| Distance | 334 laps, 501.0 mi (804 km) | ||
| Weather | Warm with temperatures up to 80.1 °F (26.7 °C); wind speeds up to 13 miles per hour (21 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 129.410 miles per hour (208.265 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 50,700 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Wood Brothers | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Marvin Panch | Wood Brothers | |
| Laps | 241 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 24 | Marvin Panch | Wood Brothers | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | untelevised | ||
| Announcers | none | ||
The 1965 Atlanta 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) event that was held on April 11, 1965, at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia.
The transition to purposely-built racers began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s; most of the cars were trailered to events or hauled in by trucks.
Atlanta International Raceway (now Atlanta Motor Speedway) is one of ten current intermediate track to hold NASCAR races; the others are Charlotte Motor Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Homestead Miami Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway. However, at the time, only Charlotte and Darlington were built.
The layout at Atlanta International Speedway at the time was a four-turn traditional oval track that is 1.54 miles (2.48 km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, and the back stretch are banked at five.
There were 44 American-born male drivers on the grid - without any foreigners or minorities trying to compete in the event. This race was the sixth Atlanta 500 to ever take place in the NASCAR Cup Series. However, the racing series would ultimately come to an end in 2011 to make room for a race at Kentucky Speedway. While the previous year's race was televised on CBS, this race was completely unbroadcasted on television.
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