1971 Myers Brothers 250
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 34 of 48 in the 1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
| Date | August 6, 1971 | ||
| Official name | Myers Brothers 250 | ||
| Location | Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, North Carolina | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 0.250 mi (0.421 km) |
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| Distance | 250 laps, 62.5 mi (100.5 km) | ||
| Weather | Mild with temperatures reaching a maximum of 75 °F (24 °C); wind speeds approaching 12 miles per hour (19 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 44.792 miles per hour (72.086 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Petty Enterprises | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Bobby Allison | Melvin Joseph | |
| Laps | 138 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 49 | Bobby Allison | Melvin Joseph | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | untelevised | ||
| Announcers | none | ||
The 1971 Myers Brothers 250 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series event that took place on August 6, 1971, at Bowman Gray Stadium in the American community of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Bowman Gray Stadium is a NASCAR sanctioned 1⁄4-mile (0.40 km) asphalt flat oval short track and longstanding football stadium located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is one of stock car racing's most legendary venues, and is referred to as "NASCAR's longest-running weekly race track". Bowman Gray Stadium is part of the Winston-Salem Sports and Entertainment Complex and is home of the Winston-Salem State University Rams football team. It was also the home of the Wake Forest University football team from 1956 until Groves Stadium (later BB&T Field) opened in 1968.
Bowman Gray Stadium was a popular venue for high school football in the 1970s.
Due to the reduced sponsorship money being given out by the "Big Three" automobile companies in Detroit, NASCAR decided to hold six of their smaller Winston Cup Series races in conjunction with the "minor league" NASCAR Grand American Series. 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.
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