Auto race held at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway in 1959
1959 Western North Carolina 500
Race details[1]
Race 32 of 44 in the 1959 NASCAR Grand National Series season
Date
August 16, 1959; 64 years ago (1959-08-16)
Official name
Western North Carolina 500
Location
Asheville-Weaverville Speedway, Weaverville, North Carolina
Course
Permanent racing facility 0.500 mi (0.804 km)
Distance
500 laps, 250 mi (310 km)
Weather
Very hot with temperatures of 87.1 °F (30.6 °C); wind speeds of 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)
Average speed
71.633 miles per hour (115.282 km/h)
Pole position
Driver
Rex White
Rex White
Most laps led
Driver
Bob Welborn
Bob Welborn
Laps
1
Winner
No. 49
Bob Welborn
Bob Welborn
Television in the United States
Network
untelevised
Announcers
none
Motor car race
The 1959 Western North Carolina 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on August 16, 1959, at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway in Weaverville, North Carolina. This event took place after the 1959 Nashville 300; which was set at Nashville Speedway (now Fairgrounds Speedway) in Nashville, Tennessee.
From 1949 to 1972, Richard and Lee Petty were the most dominant drivers on any circuit in NASCAR. David Pearson was easily the third most dominant NASCAR driver. Buck Baker and Rex White were considered to be the middle-of-the road competitors in NASCAR from 1949 to 1972. Fonty and Tim Flock along with Herb Thomas, Joe Weatherly, Ned Jarrett, and Bobby Isaac were considered to be below-average performers during the early years of NASCAR.
The race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power any more.
^Weather information for the 1959 Western North Carolina 500 at the Old Farmers' Almanac
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