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The 1967 Atlanta 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on April 2, 1967 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia.〔(''1967 Atlanta 500'' ) at Racing Reference〕 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. ==Summary== There were 44 American-born drivers on the grid; Cale Yarborough managed to defeat Dick Hutcherson by just more than one lap in front of 70000 live audience members.〔〔 The race lasted nearly four hours with the average speed being .〔〔 Yarborough's qualifying speed was ; bringing his speed close to the threshold.〔〔 Veteran NASCAR owner Nord Krauskopf would employ drivers Charlie Glotzbach and Bobby Isaac during the race.〔 Blackie Watt would finish in last-place on lap 2 due to a difficulty in the engine department.〔〔 Meanwhile, windshield problems would knock Don White out of the race at lap 193 of 334.〔〔 Six cautions were handed out by NASCAR officials for a distance of 39 laps.〔〔 Fred Lorenzen would race for the final time in his legendary #28 white and blue 1967 Ford Fairlane machine that would make him popular in NASCAR. Curtis Turner, who was driving a Chevrolet owned by Smokey Yunick, would escape being injured in a practice session that managed to become a wild crash session.〔(''Wild practice session'' - 1967 Atlanta 500 ) at HowStuffWorks.com〕 The entire racing purse for this racing event was $64,995 ($ when adjusted for inflation); the winner's share of this amount was $21,035 ($ when adjusted for inflation) while the last-place winner received a meager $540 ($ when adjusted for inflation).〔(''1967 Atlanta 500'' ) racing information at Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1967 Atlanta 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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