1964 Virginia 500 - NASCAR Race

Name of Race:	1964 Virginia 500
Name of Track:	Martinsville Speedway
Date:	N/A

Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Martinsville, Virginia. At 0.526 miles in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series.

NASCAR Paperclip

The track was also one of the first paved "superspeedways" in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. The track is often referred to as paper clip-shaped and is banked only 12° in the turns. The combination of long straightaways and flat, narrow turns makes hard braking going into turns and smooth acceleration exiting turns a must.

Original Ownership

The track ownership was a joint venture of brothers Jim and Bill France, Jr., and H. Clay Earles, the majority owner, along with daughters Dorothy Campbell and Mary Weatherford, and Dorothy Campbell's children, Sarah Fain and Clay Campbell.

Grandfather Clock Trophy

Winners of Martinsville's Nextel Cup and Whelen Modified Tour events receive a longcase clock as a trophy instead of a regular trophy, a tip of the cap to the fame of the Martinsville furniture industry. One of the neat things one can see while watching a NASCAR race is a Norfolk Southern train running along the tracks outside the speedway, although the tracks were recently moved back 100 feet.

$192 Million Price Tag

Although sold for $192 million in 2004, the track continues to prosper under the new ownership of International Speedway Corporation. The track hosts two Nextel cup races, currently the DirecTV 500 in April and the Subway 500 in October, along with Busch, Craftsman Truck, and Late Model Stock Car races. The track had plans to add an additional 20,000 seats along the backstretch, boosting capacity to over 85,000 seats, but nothing more has been officially mentioned regarding this by track management since the sale of the track to ISC.

Courtesy of Wikipedia.

1964 Virginia 500 NASCAR Race Results

Below are the race results for 1964 Virginia 500, in order of finishing place.

Fin	Driver	Num	Start	Money	Laps	Status	Sponsor
1	Fred Lorenzen	28	1	$4,175	500	running	LaFayette
2	Marvin Panch	21	2	$1,925	499	running	Wood Brothers
3	Junior Johnson	0	3	$1,250	497	running	Banjo Matthews
4	Ned Jarrett	11	4	$850	495	running	Bondy Long
5	Fireball Roberts	22	20	$800	494	running	Holman-Moody
6	Richard Petty	43	6	$675	490	running	Petty Enterprises
7	Cale Yarborough	19	9	$575	474	running	Herman Beam
9	Bobby Keck	23	17	$425	450	running	E.B. Rich
10	Wendell Scott	34	19	$390	437	engine	Wendell Scott
12	Jack Anderson	20	16	$300	394	running	Jack Anderson
15	Curtis Crider	1	22	$235	382	running	Curtis Crider
16	Ken Anderson	56	32	$200	360	rear end
18	David Pearson	6	7	$225	317	rear end	Cotton Owens
19	Gene Hobby	99	29	$200	305	running	Barney Humphries
20	Darel Dieringer	16	5	$250	275	crash	Bill Stroppe
21	Jim Paschal	5	13	$225	263	rear end	Cotton Owens
22	Buddy Baker	87	24	$225	213	heating	J.C. Parker
25	Jimmy Pardue	54	10	$225	133	rear end	Burton-Robinson
26	Jimmy Helms	88	30	$175	117	heating	Buck Baker
27	Buddy Arrington	78	15	$200	74	oil cooler	Buddy Arrington
30	Bobby Johns	7	8	$200	35	rear end	Shorty Johns
31	Neil Castles	86	25	$150	2	handling	Buck Baker
32	Bud Harless	40	23	$175	2	oil press	Fred Harless
33	Billy Wade	1	0	$25	0	dns	Bud Moore