Some old NASCAR trivia

[Jacque Debris]

Another question: Bob Fish of Daytona Beach used racing to promote his "Fish Carburetor." The original design was called the M-1... His race cars all carried the "M" on them and he ran as many as five cars in a race on Daytona Beach running #s M-1 through M-5, mostly in the Modified & Sportsman races... So... what made the Fish Carburetor different from other carburetors?

I know they were alot more fuel efficient than the other carburetors being used at that time. Not sure why though. Wasn't one of the drivers (not sure who) disqualified from one of the races for using the fish carburetor? I guess they thought he was cheating because he got such great gas mileage.

[ancrdave]

Major 250 km race... The others were either Fl Pro or USA-sanctioned... This race was in the 1960s...

[Boneman]

Actually, a bunch of us ran stock cars there in 2002, including SLM, trucks and mod minis.

Maybe the question is about a major stock car race.

[Frasson118]

Joe Nemechek won a USA Late Model Series race there in about '89.

[ancrdave]

Here's another bit of trivia... Since it opened in 1950, the Sebring International Raceway has hosted just one stock car-only race... It was not sanctioned... What was the year and who won?

[ancrdave]

You are right Jerry... It was the First NASCAR Strictly Stock (now Sprint Cup) race on the Daytona Beach-Road Course in 1949... Bob, Fonty and Tim Flock were in that race as was their sister Ethel (Flock) Mobley... Tim Flock finished second and Ethel was 11th beating both Fonty and Bob...

[Frasson118]

Can't tell the year or track, but I'm guessing the Flock family. Bob, Tim, Fonty... and their SISTER whose name I don't recall.

Unless you consider Jocko Flocko part of the 'family'.

[ancrdave]

Most of the Wallace's weren't even born yet...

[Matt Albee]

Here's one for you... One NASCAR Cup race saw four siblings run in the same event... Where was it and what year, plus who were the drivers?

The Wallace family ?

[ancrdave]

Another question: Bob Fish of Daytona Beach used racing to promote his "Fish Carburetor." The original design was called the M-1... His race cars all carried the "M" on them and he ran as many as five cars in a race on Daytona Beach running #s M-1 through M-5, mostly in the Modified & Sportsman races... So... what made the Fish Carburetor different from other carburetors?

[ancrdave]

I asked the question earlier: Since 1911 only two drivers have stopped a perfectly good race car during the running of the Indianapolis 500, got out and assisted a driver involved in a crash... Who were they? Hint: one is still alive today, the other died in a late-1950s crash...

Answer: Ed Elisian & Gary Bettenhausen

[ancrdave]

Here's one for you... One NASCAR Cup race saw four siblings run in the same event... Where was it and what year, plus who were the drivers?

[Jacque Debris]

More trivia

Alright lets get serious here again.... Here's a few more....

1 - What was used as the pace car for the very first Daytona 500?
2 - How many cars showed up to vie for one of the 43 starting positions for the inagural Brickyard 400?
3 - Who built the engine with which Richard Petty won his 200th race?
4 - Who is the imaginary person that Darrell Waltrip has said was responsible for so many cautions on the racetrack? HA-HA

[Jacque Debris]

Gotta Jump in on this one...

1) David Pearson won the pole in every race at Charlotte Motor Speedway from the 1973 National 500 to the 1978 National 500... all with the Wood Brothers... He ran the Woods' Mercury in 13 races at Charlotte and started either first or second in every race... In 46 starts at CMS, Pearson's average starting spot was 6.4...

2) That one is easy... Dale Earnhardt...

3) The most cars to start a NASCAR Cup race is 82 - Darlington Southern 500 in 1951... The most cars to start any NASCAR race was 136 in the 1953 Daytona Beach Modified race.

4) Tiny Lund won the 1963 Daytona 500 and never changed tires... By drafting other cars, his Wood Brothers team made one less pit stop than everybody else and that is how he won the race...

Ancrdave.... You got them all exactly right.... I guess I'll have to raise these questions up a couple of notches. Alright, here it goes...

1 - I'm thinking of a number between one and a thousand... what number is it? You've got 999 chances of getting this one wrong. HA-HA (just kidding)

[ancrdave]

Gotta Jump in on this one...

1) David Pearson won the pole in every race at Charlotte Motor Speedway from the 1973 National 500 to the 1978 National 500... all with the Wood Brothers... He ran the Woods' Mercury in 13 races at Charlotte and started either first or second in every race... In 46 starts at CMS, Pearson's average starting spot was 6.4...

2) That one is easy... Dale Earnhardt...

3) The most cars to start a NASCAR Cup race is 82 - Darlington Southern 500 in 1951... The most cars to start any NASCAR race was 136 in the 1953 Daytona Beach Modified race.

4) Tiny Lund won the 1963 Daytona 500 and never changed tires... By drafting other cars, his Wood Brothers team made one less pit stop than everybody else and that is how he won the race...