1960 International 200
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 22 of 44 in the 1960 NASCAR Grand National Series season | |||
| Date | June 26, 1960 | ||
| Official name | International 200 | ||
| Location | Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, North Carolina | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 0.250 mi (0.421 km) |
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| Distance | 200 laps, 50.0 mi (35.0 km) | ||
| Weather | Hot with temperatures approaching 90 °F (32 °C); wind speeds up to 15.9 miles per hour (25.6 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 45.782 miles per hour (73.679 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 10,500 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Petty Enterprises | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Glen Wood | Wood Brothers | |
| Laps | 200 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 16 | Glen Wood | Wood Brothers | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | untelevised | ||
| Announcers | none | ||
The 1960 International 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) event that was held on June 26, 1960, at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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; most of the cars were trailered to events or hauled in by trucks.
Bowman Gray Stadium is a NASCAR sanctioned 1⁄4-mile (0.40 km) asphalt flat oval short track and longstanding football stadium located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is one of stock car racing's most legendary venues, and is referred to as "NASCAR's longest-running weekly race track". Bowman Gray Stadium is part of the Winston-Salem Sports and Entertainment Complex and is home of the Winston-Salem State University Rams football team. It was also the home of the Wake Forest University football team from 1956 until Groves Stadium (later BB&T Field) opened in 1968.
It took one hour and five minutes to resolve two hundred laps of racing. The average speed of the race was 45.872 miles per hour (73.824 km/h) while Lee Petty would qualify for the pole position with a speed of 47.850 miles per hour (77.007 km/h). These speeds would be relatively slow on today's highway systems for passenger automobiles. Glen Wood managed to defeat Petty by half a lap in the actual race.
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