1963 Rebel 300 - NASCAR Race

Name of Race:	1963 Rebel 300
Name of Track:	Darlington Raceway
Date:	N/A

Darlington Raceway is a race track built for NASCAR racing located near Darlington, South Carolina.

Looks Like An Egg

It was the first superspeedway built with NASCAR racing in mind and is of a unique, somewhat egg-shaped design, an oval with the ends of very different configurations, a condition which supposedly arose from the proximity of one end of the track to a minnow pond the owner refused to relocate. This situation makes it very challenging for the crews to set up their cars' handling in a way that will be effective at both ends.

Largest Field of Racers

Darlington has an interesting history. When the 1.366 mile long track first opened over a half-century ago, it was not uncommon for there to be 80 or more entrants in a race; this was curtailed over the years as NASCAR adopted a more uniform set of guidelines with regard to the number of cars which could qualify for a race.

Flip-Flop

In recent years the track has been reconfigured; what was the front stretch is now the back stretch, and the turns have been renumbered accordingly. Seating has been increased to approximately 60,000; it has been limited by the proximity of a railroad track to the facility, a highway behind the back stretch, and the still-present pond.

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1963 Rebel 300 NASCAR Race Results

Below are the race results for 1963 Rebel 300, in order of finishing place.

Fin	Driver	Num	Start	Money	Laps	Status	Sponsor
1	Joe Weatherly	8	6	$11,100	220	running	Bud Moore
2	Fireball Roberts	22	5	$6,200	219	running	Holman-Moody
3	Richard Petty	42	9	$4,980	219	running	Petty Enterprises
4	Tiny Lund	21	2	$2,665	219	running	Wood Brothers
5	Bobby Johns	7	10	$1,965	218	running	Shorty Johns
6	Jim Paschal	41	11	$1,470	216	running	Petty Enterprises
7	Darel Dieringer	26	7	$1,250	217	running	Bill Stroppe
8	Buck Baker	87	14	$1,000	216	running	Buck Baker
9	Jimmy Pardue	54	16	$850	215	running	Pete Stewart
10	Billy Wade	5	18	$650	213	running	Cotton Owens
11	Cale Yarborough	52	22	$600	211	running	Julian Buesink
12	David Pearson	6	13	$600	180	crash	Cotton Owens
14	Curtis Crider	73	24	$450	205	running	Acey Taylor
15	Stick Elliott	47	19	$400	155	engine	Jack Smith
16	LeeRoy Yarbrough	71	20	$420	130	push rod	W.M. Harrison
17	Larry Frank	24	8	$350	155	running	Bill Stroppe
19	Ed Livingston	56	27	$300	193	running	Mamie Reynolds
20	Ned Jarrett	11	15	$300	197	running	Burton-Robinson
21	Bobby Isaac	99	17	$390	112	handling	Bondy Long
22	Bob James	27	23	$300	196	running	Roscoe Sanders
24	Herman Beam	19	26	$300	57	handling	Herman Beam
25	Junior Johnson	3	4	$1,300	110	rear end	Holly Farms
26	Neil Castles	86	28	$300	8	engine	Buck Baker
27	Johnny Allen	66	12	$300	69	con rod	Ratus Walters
28	Bob Cooper	51	30	$300	41	crash	Bob Cooper
29	Possum Jones	97	31	$300	3	sway bar	Lewis Osborne
30	Fred Lorenzen	28	1	$415	6	crash	LaFayette
31	Rex White	4	3	$320	2	crash	Louis Clements