The big one, old school
I was trolling around You Tube earlier today and stumbled on this old piece of newsreal footage, which purports to be from the 1960 Daytona 500.
The 1960 500, which was only the second Daytona 500 on the superspeedway,
did have 68 cars. But a lot fewer than 37 were parked at the end, and there's not a big clump of cars that got knocked out on the same lap. Some commenters note (apparently correctly) that two of the drivers mentioned in the clip (looks like Carl Burris and Marion Farr) aren't even in the race, and there's no number 20.
Still, it's a nice little piece of racin' history.
Anyone have any idea what race this might be? And does anyone know anyone at Fox? I want to suggest that they use the soundtrack sometime during their 500 coverage. It's the perfect mood music.
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Well it's definitely early Daytona, I'm not certain it is the 500 though. With that many cars it's possible it was either a Sportsman race or a Modified race.
I'll try to remember to show it to my Father tonight, he attended about every Speedweeks from the early 50's through 2001.
Posted on January 15, 2007 3:05 PM
My Father confirmed what I thought about this footage. It's Daytona, but it's not the 500. I remember Daytona looking this size as far as the stands.
According to Racing Reference, Cotton Owens had the pole in #6, not this #20 in the footage. Plus the race results do not show a great deal of cars out due to accidents. I also question whether 39,000 people are in the stands for this race as quoted in Racing Reference.
Posted on January 15, 2007 7:49 PM