| Race details[1][2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 1 of 62 in the1964 NASCAR Grand National Series season | |||
 1964 Textile 250 program cover | |||
| Date | November 10, 1963; 61 years ago (1963-11-10) | ||
| Official name | Textile 250 | ||
| Location | Concord Speedway,Concord, North Carolina | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 0.500 miles (0.805 km) | ||
| Distance | 250 laps, 125.0 mi (201.1 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures reaching of 72 °F (22 °C); wind speeds of 7 miles per hour (11 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 56.897 miles per hour (91.567 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Owens Racing | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Ned Jarrett | Burton-Robinson | |
| Laps | 114 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 11 | Ned Jarrett | Burton-Robinson | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | untelevised | ||
| Announcers | none | ||
The1964 Textile 250 was aNASCARGrand National Series event that was held on November 10, 1963, atConcord Speedway inConcord, North Carolina.
250 laps were done on a dirt track spanning 125 miles (201 km) in total distance.[2] Despite being held during the 1963 calendar year, this race was considered to be the first race in the1964 Grand National season. Thesilly season between the 1963 and 1964 seasons was only seven days unlike the twelve weeks that the drivers enjoy today.
| Grid[2] | No. | Driver | Manufacturer | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | David Pearson | '63 Dodge | Cotton Owens |
| 2 | 3 | Junior Johnson | '63 Chevrolet | Ray Fox |
| 3 | 11 | Ned Jarrett | '63 Ford | Charles Robinson |
| 4 | 42 | Richard Petty | '63 Plymouth | Petty Enterprises |
| 5 | 48 | Jack Smith | '63 Plymouth | Jack Smith |
| 6 | 8 | Joe Weatherly | '63 Pontiac | Bud Moore |
| 7 | 32 | Tiny Lund | '63 Ford | Dave Kent |
| 8 | 6 | Billy Wade | '63 Dodge | Cotton Owens |
| 9 | 75 | G.C. Spencer | '62 Pontiac | Paul Clayton |
| 10 | 14 | Darel Dieringer | '63 Ford | Pete Stewart |
| 11 | 96 | Jimmy Massey | '62 Chevrolet | Hubert Westmoreland |
| 12 | 41 | Maurice Petty | '63 Plymouth | Petty Enterprises |
| 13 | 67 | Jimmy Pardue | '62 Pontiac | unknown |
| 14 | 09 | Larry Manning | '62 Chevrolet | Bob Adams |
| 15 | 23 | Bill Widenhouse | '62 Plymouth | Leland Colvin |
| 16 | 20 | Jack Anderson | '63 Ford | Jack Anderson |
| 17 | 83 | Worth McMillion | '62 Pontiac | Worth McMillion |
| 18 | 16 | Larry Thomas | '62 Dodge | Wade Yonts |
| 19 | 34 | Wendell Scott | '62 Chevrolet | Wendell Scott |
| 20 | 02 | Doug Cooper | '62 Pontiac | Bob Cooper |
| 21 | 87 | Buck Baker | '63 Pontiac | Buck Baker |
| 22 | 62 | Curtis Crider | '63 Mercury | Curtis Crider |
| 23 | 9 | Roy Tyner | '62 Chevrolet | Roy Tyner |
| 24 | 18 | Toy Bolton | '61 Pontiac | Toy Bolton |
| 25 | 86 | Neil Castles | '62 Chrysler | Buck Baker |
| 26 | 68 | Ed Livingston | '61 Ford | Ed Livingston |
After 2 hours, 11 minutes, and 49 seconds of intense racing action, a winner was decided.[2]Ned Jarrett (Dale Jarrett's father) defeated his opponentJoe Weatherly by twelve seconds.[2] Speeds were relatively slow by today's standards; the average speed was 56.897 miles (91.567 km) per hour while the pole position speed was 69.257 miles (111.458 km) per hour. Petty Enterprises was called "Petty Engineering Co." during the early-1960s and the car owner for the No. 41, 42, and 43 cars during the 1964 season was Lee Petty.[2] A balanced combination of corporate multi-car teams and individual owners were recorded on the race log for this event.[3] Despite the wordInternational being added to the race track; there were no foreign competitors to this race.[4]
The typical American passenger vehicle of the 21st century can legally drive up to 90 miles (140 km) on some rural roads. This would make today's passenger vehicles faster than the stock cars of this era (which were supposed to represent advancements in automobile technology). However, many safety features adopted in these early stock cars would be used in passenger vehicles that were made years and even decades later. The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.
While the race was underway, the track came apart and certain parts of the track were covered with dust. Notable racers that didn't finish in the top ten included:Buck Baker,Bill Widenhouse,Roy Tyner,Wendell Scott,Junior Johnson,Neil Castles andJimmy Massey.[2] Toy Bolton would make his NASCAR Cup Series debut in this race. While this would be his only race of the 1964 season, he would return for the1966 season. Three thousand people attended this live racing event as of the start of the race.[2] Due to the low-level interest of the sport outside the North Carolina region during this era, the event was completely untelevised. The fastest finishing positions for each manufacturer were:Ford (1st),Pontiac (2nd),Plymouth (3rd),Dodge (4th),Chevrolet (8th),Mercury (9th), andChrysler (24th).[2]
This would be Hubert Westmoreland's last race as a car owner and the first Southern 500 winning owner went out before his driver Jimmy Massey could complete a lap.[2] Massey would have his final race as a NASCAR Grand National Series driver at this event.[2]
Scoring was done for the 1964 NASCAR Grand National Series using a "base" number, that is the 25th position was the base since anyone finishing lower than 25th received the same number of points as 25th position. By the conclusion of the 1964 NASCAR Grand National Series season, a total of 16 different points schemes were used.
Ned Jarrett walked away from the event with the winner's purse of $1,350 ($13,687 when adjusted for inflation).[2] John Ervin was the winning crew chief for this racing event; he would go on to win 28 races during the 1964 and 1965 NASCAR Cup Series seasons.[5][6] Other notable crew chiefs in the race wereJimmy Helms,Frank McMillion,Dale Inman,Wendell Scott, Ralph Gray,Skip Adams, and Bob Cooper.[7]
The last finisher to get a monetary award wasDarel Dieringer who received $50 ($507 when adjusted for inflation) for finishing in 22nd place (out of twenty-six competitors).[2] After combining all the prize winnings for the drivers, the total winnings purse for this race was $6,010 ($60,932 when adjusted for inflation).[8]
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* Driver failed to finish race
| Preceded by | NASCAR Grand National Races 1963-64 | Succeeded by 1964 untitled race atAugusta International Raceway |
