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Stock Car Racing: 1949 Season

Stock Car Racing: 1949 Season

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1949 National Series Champions
NASCAR Strictly Stock: Red Byron (Oldsmobile)

Stock car racing began before World War II and continued when the war ended, but 1949 would be the beginning of stock car racing history as a nationally organized professional sport.  The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, better known as NASCAR, had begun operating the year before, sanctioning a series of Modified races.  1949 would mark the beginning of NASCAR's premiere stock car series, founded as Strictly Stock.  The name Strictly Stock would only be used for 1949, as it was decided that it sounded too much like a rules interpretation and not a racing series, becoming Grand National in 1950.  This would be the series that would eventually become the Winston Cup, Nextel Cup, and finally the Sprint Cup, becoming the top form of stock car racing in the world and setting the standards by which all other major American stock car racing series operated.

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Race Schedule

Date	Series	Race	Track	Pole	Winner	Winner's Make
June 19	Strictly Stock	Charlotte Speedway	Charlotte Speedway	Bob Flock	Jim Roper	1949 Lincoln
July 10	Strictly Stock	Daytona Beach Course	Daytona Beach Course	Gober Sosebee	Red Byron	1949 Oldsmobile
August 7	Strictly Stock	Occoneechee Speedway	Occoneechee Speedway	Bob Flock	Bob Flock	1948 Oldsmobile
September 11	Strictly Stock	Langhorne Speedway	Langhorne Speedway	Red Byron	Curtis Turner	1949 Oldsmobile
September 18	Strictly Stock	Hamburg Speedway	Hamburg Speedway	Glenn Dunaway	Jack White	1949 Lincoln
September 25	Strictly Stock	Martinsville Speedway	Martinsville Speedway	Curtis Turner	Red Byron	1949 Oldsmobile
October 2	Strictly Stock	Heidelberg Raceway	Heidelberg Raceway	Al Bonnell	Lee Petty	1949 Plymouth
October 16	Strictly Stock	Wilkes 200	North Wilkesboro Speedway	Kenneth Wagner	Bob Flock	1949 Oldsmobile

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Strictly Stock Points Standings

Rank	Driver	Points	Starts	Wins	Money
1	Red Byron	842.5	6	2	$5,800
2	Lee Petty	725	6	1	$3,855
3	Bob Flock	704	6	2	$4,870
4	Bill Blair	567.5	6	0	$1,280
5	Fonty Flock	554.5	6	0	$2,015
6	Curtis Turner	430	6	1	$2,675
7	Ray Erickson	422	4	0	$1,460
8	Tim Flock	421	5	0	$1,510
9	Glenn Dunnaway	384	6	0	$810
10	Frank Mundy	370	4	0	$1,160
11	Bill Snowden	315	4	0	$660
12	Bill Rexford	286	3	0	$785
13	Sara Christian	282	6	0	$760
14	Clyde Minter	280	0	0	$760
15	Gober Sosebee	265	3	0	$1,305
16	Jim Raper	253	2	1	$2,130
17	Sam Rice	231	2	0	$680
18	Jack White	200	1	1	$1,580
19	Dick Linder	180.5	3	0	$1,305
20	Billy Rafter	160	1	0	$480
21	Archie Smith	145	2	0	$225
22	Joe Littlejohn	140	1	0	$300
23	Jack Russell	140	3	0	$175
24	Mike Eagan	140	1	0	$300
25	Herb Thomas	132	4	0	$225
26	Sterling Long	100	2	0	$150
27	Frank Christian	100	1	0	$175
28	Frankie Schneider	100	1	0	$150
29	Lloyd Moore	100	1	0	$150
30	Roy Hall	100	1	0	$150
31	Slick Smith	99	4	0	$275
32	Al Keller	90	1	0	$200
33	John Wright	80	1	0	$100
34	Al Bonnell	80	2	0	$150
35	Otis Martin	69.5	4	0	$200
36	Jimmy Thompson	65	2	0	$175
37	Charles Muscatel	60	1	0	$75
38	Raymond Lewis	60	1	0	$75
39	Al Wagoner	60	1	0	$75
40	George Lewis	40	1	0	$50
41	Lou Volk	30	1	0	$125
42	Buddy Helms	27.5	1	0	$75
43	Bob Apperson	25	3	0	$150
44	Bill Bennett	24	1	0	$100
45	Ted Chamberlain	24	2	0	$100
46	Buck Baker	20	2	0	$50
47	Jack Etheridge	20	1	0	$75
48	Ellis Pearce	20	1	0	$50
49	Bobby Greene	19.5	2	0	$50
50	Ken Wagner	19	3	0	$100

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