1970 Greenville 200


The 1970 Greenville 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on June 27, 1970, at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in Greenville, South Carolina.

Race report

Seven thousand racing fans were in attendance to see Bobby Isaac defeat Bobby Allison by ½ of a lap. Bobby Allison had to borrow his son Davey's car because he wrecked his car during the previous week. The pole position was earned by the eventual race winner with a qualifying speed of while the average speed of the race was. It took one hour and thirty-three seconds for the race to reach its conclusion. All twenty-nine competitors were born in the United States of America with no foreign-born drivers, unlike today. Five notable crew chiefs were recorded as participating in the event; including Lee Gordon, Dale Inman and Harry Hyde.
Carburetors were still in wide use in both passenger automobiles and with the NASCAR vehicles during the early 1970s; requiring plenty of physically-intensive labor from the people who would maintain the vehicles between races.
Notable drivers in the field included: Richard Petty, Benny Parsons, Elmo Langley, Roy Tyner, and J.D. McDuffie. The winner's purse was considered to be $1,500.
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. 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.

Qualifying

Finishing order

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  1. Bobby Isaac†
  2. Bobby Allison
  3. Dick Brooks†
  4. James Hylton
  5. Benny Parsons†
  6. Elmo Langley†
  7. Jabe Thomas†
  8. Bill Champion†
  9. Ed Negre
  10. Ken Meisenhelder
  11. Wendell Scott†
  12. J.D. McDuffie†
  13. Ben Arnold
  14. Neil Castles*
  15. Bill Seifert
  16. Lee Gordon
  17. Johnny Halford*
  18. Roy Tyner†
  19. Richard Petty*
  20. Dave Marcis
  21. Raymond Williams*
  22. Frank Warren*
  23. Henley Gray*
  24. John Sears*†
  25. Earl Brooks*
  26. Cecil Gordon*†
  27. Pete Hazelwood*
  28. Bill Shirey*
  29. John Jennings*
† signifies that the driver is known to be deceased
* Driver failed to finish race

Timeline

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