1974 Old Dominion 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 27 of 30 in the 1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
View from turn one and two bleachers
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| Date | September 29, 1974 | ||
| Official name | Old Dominion 500 | ||
| Location | Martinsville Speedway, Martinsville, Virginia | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 0.525 mi (0.844 km) |
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| Distance | 500 laps, 262.5 mi (442.4 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures reaching a high of 84.9 °F (29.4 °C); wind speeds up to 11.8 miles per hour (19.0 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 66.232 miles per hour (106.590 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 33,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Petty Enterprises | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Cale Yarborough | Junior Johnson & Associates | |
| Laps | 288 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 52 | Earl Ross | Junior Johnson & Associates | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | untelevised | ||
| Announcers | none | ||
The 1974 Old Dominion 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on September 29, 1974, at Martinsville Speedway (Martinsville, Virginia, USA).
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.
Today, the race is a part of the TUMS Fast Relief 500 annual series of Martinsville races that occur in the autumn for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The race lasted three hours, fifty-eight minutes, and three seconds. Ten cautions were enacted by NASCAR for seventy-nine laps. The event had an attendance of 33,000 people.
Canadian Earl Ross (driving for Junior Johnson) defeated his American opponent Buddy Baker by more than one lap. Pole speed was 84.119 miles (135.376 km) per hour while the average speed was 66.232 miles (106.590 km) per hour. Notable drivers at this race included Richard Petty, Elmo Langley, Cale Yarborough, Benny Parsons, Coo Coo Marlin (father of Sterling Marlin), and Richard Childress (future owner of Richard Childress Racing).
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