1973 Dixie 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 19 of 28 in the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series | |||
Layout of Atlanta International Speedway, used until 1996
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| Date | July 22, 1973 | ||
| Official name | Dixie 500 | ||
| Course | 1.522 mi (2.449 km) | ||
| Distance | 328 laps, 499.2 mi (803.3 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures up to 90 °F (32 °C); wind speeds up to 8 miles per hour (13 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 130.211 miles per hour (209.554 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 30,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Petty Enterprises | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | David Pearson | Wood Brothers | |
| Laps | 178 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 21 | David Pearson | Wood Brothers | |
The 1973 Dixie 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on July 22, 1973, at Atlanta International Raceway in the American community of Hampton, Georgia.
Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day.
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.
It took three hours and fifty minutes for David Pearson to defeat Cale Yarborough by more than one lap on a paved track spanning 1.522 miles (2.449 km). Competitors were given special permits to enter the motor pits of track; separate from the media and the general public.
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