1969 Texas 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 54 of 54 in the 1969 NASCAR Grand National Series season | |||
Layout of Texas World Speedway
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| Date | December 7, 1969 | ||
| Official name | Texas 500 | ||
| Location | Texas World Speedway, College Station, Texas | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.000 mi (3.218 km) |
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| Distance | 250 laps, 500 mi (804 km) | ||
| Weather | Cold with temperatures reaching up to 55.9 °F (13.3 °C); wind speeds up to 15 miles per hour (24 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 144.277 miles per hour (232.191 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 23,508 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Owens Racing | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Buddy Baker | Owens Racing | |
| Laps | 150 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 71 | Bobby Isaac | K&K Insurance Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | untelevised | ||
| Announcers | none | ||
Coordinates: 30°32′13″N 96°13′16″W / 30.537°N 96.221°W
The 1969 Texas 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) event that was held on December 7, 1969, at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas.
Souvenir racing programs were sold at the event for the then-inexpensive cost of $1 USD per copy ($6.53 when adjusted for inflation).
The extra four degrees of banking made the cars 16 miles per hour or 26 kilometres per hour faster than their speeds while racing at Michigan International Speedway.
Bobby Isaac would win this race in his 1969 Dodge Charger; gaining $15,640 in prize winnings ($102,142.54 when inflation is taken into effect).Buddy Baker earned the pole position with a speed of 176.284 miles per hour (283.702 km/h) while the average speed of the race was 144.277 miles per hour (232.191 km/h). More than 23,000 race fans would see Donnie Allison lose the race by more than two laps.Don Biederman was the only foreign-born driver (he was born in Port Credit, Ontario) and raced under the employ of Bill Champion for this race in a 1968 Ford Torino.Roy Tyner would finish in last place after picking up an engine problem on lap 2 with his 1969 Pontiac vehicle.
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