Word: nascar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last. But last week the dodgers and weavers got a break. At Florida's abandoned Flagler Beach Airport, even the local cops turned out to cheer as amateurs and pros whipped through brand-new driving tests devised by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Instead of NASCAR's usual straight dashes down the tide-smoothed sands of Daytona Beach, the association concocted its 1958 stock-model performance tests as a yardstick of automobile safety, based them on qualities that the average driver needs in the average car during an average turn at the wheel: maneuverability...
...field. Chevies finished one-two-three with a top speed of 118.460 m.p.h., nearly 7 m.p.h. faster than the nearest Ford, which finished fourth. The fastest Plymouth trailed in eighth place. In the 160-mile beach-and-road race for new convertibles Atlanta's Tim Flock set a NASCAR record of 101.32 m.p.h. in a 335-h.p. Mercury...
...Flock was one of the starters this week at West Palm Beach in the final race of the year, sponsored by NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing). Flock was involved in a neck & neck race with Herb Thomas, defending national champion, for the 1952 title...
Ever since last January, when Flock set a Palm Beach Speedway record of 64.89 m.p.h., he and Thomas had dueled it out at tracks all over the U.S. in NASCAR's grand circuit. The NASCAR rules are rigid, a cut above the fly-by-night promotions involving jalopies with wild-eyed teen-agers at the wheels. All cars must be 1949 makes or newer. They must be strictly stock, with no special tires, no extra-heavy springing and no "souping up" of engines. Safety rules are rigidly enforced. Headlights are taped to prevent flying glass, and the drivers must...