Auto race held at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1961
1961 World 600
Race details[1]
Race 24 of 52 in the 1961 NASCAR Grand National Series season
1961 World 600 program cover
Date
May 28, 1961 (1961-May-28)
Official name
World 600
Location
Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina
Course
Permanent racing facility 1.500 mi (2.414 km)
Distance
400 laps, 600 mi (965 km)
Weather
Temperatures of 73 °F (23 °C); wind speeds of 10.1 miles per hour (16.3 km/h)
Average speed
111.633 miles per hour (179.656 km/h)
Attendance
46,538[2]
Pole position
Driver
Richard Petty
Petty Enterprises
Most laps led
Driver
David Pearson
John Masoni
Laps
225
Winner
No. 3
David Pearson
John Masoni
Television in the United States
Network
ABC
Announcers
Chris Economaki
Motor car race
The 1961 World 600, the second running of the event, was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that took place on May 28, 1961, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Chris Economaki called the race in one of the few televised NASCAR races of the 1960s. A series of two qualifying events took place on May 21 to determine the starting grid for this event.
This race began a streak of 1856 consecutive NASCAR races where at least one of the drivers in the race was from North Carolina. The streak would come to an end after Dale Earnhardt Jr. did not race in the 2012 Bank of America 500 at Charlotte after getting a concussion after the previous race at Talladega.
^"Weather information for the 1961 World 600". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2012-09-05.
^"Racing information for the 1961 World 600". Racing Reference. Retrieved 2012-09-05.
The 1961World600, the second running of the event, was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that took place on May 28, 1961, at Charlotte Motor Speedway...
variant—the Fiat 600 Multipla. It was a precursor of current multi-purpose vehicles. The millionth 600 was produced in February 1961, less than six years...
August, even though the track experienced an "unusually successful" 1961World600, they warned stockholders that the track was in "serious trouble and...
in the 1961World600 and finished 11th. He drove a total of eight races for the Owens before leaving the team at the end of the season. In 1961, Earnhardt...
100 mi (160 km) event on the dirt at Lakewood Speedway, Georgia, in October 1961, where he finished second. He also raced at a United States Auto Club event...
American stock car racing driver. Isaac made his first NASCAR appearance in 1961, and quickly forged a reputation of one of the toughest competitors of the...
SEAT 600 is a city car made in Spain by SEAT from 27 May 1957 to 3 August 1973, built under license from Fiat on the original Italian Fiat 600, designed...
#31 Dodge. This would be Pearson's second World600 victory. His first career Cup win was in this event in 1961. Sam McQuagg would make his final start...
Turner in 1959. The first World600 NASCAR race was held at the 1.5 mi (2.4 km) speedway on June 19, 1960. On December 8, 1961, the speedway filed bankruptcy...
Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The Indianapolis 500 is the most prestigious IndyCar race, while the Coca-Cola 600, the longest...
Cotton Owens. All three of these men served in World War II together. Eubanks raced from 1950 to 1961 collecting one win, thirty-seven finishes in the...
Turner in 1959, the first World600 NASCAR race was held at the 1.5 mi (2.4 km) speedway on June 19, 1960. On December 8, 1961, the speedway filed bankruptcy...
National League; no expansion team (created in 1961 or later) has faced the same opponent more than once in a World Series. Baseball portal List of National...
The Paris massacre of 1961 (also called the 17 October 1961 massacre in France) was the mass killing of Algerians who were living in Paris by the French...
Golden Jubilee) 600 Series Workmaster Powermaster Ford *000 "Thousand" series 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, and 9000 Ford *600 "Six-Hundred"...
events in World demography: 1958–1961– Great Chinese Famine 1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall, Revolutions of 1989 2020–2022– COVID-19 The world has hundreds...
original on 7 December 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014. Video on YouTube "'My 600-lb Life': Samantha Mason Dramatic Weight Loss – How Much Did She Lose?"....
The College World Series (CWS), officially the NCAA Men's College World Series (MCWS), is a baseball tournament held each June in Omaha, Nebraska. The...
by continents, were published in the first half of the 19th century, at 600 million to 1 billion in the early 1800s and 800 million to 1 billion in the...
needed] In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Indy 500 and the World600 (now known as the Coca-Cola 600) at Charlotte Motor Speedway were held on different days...
Anunnaki their positions. A late Babylonian version of the epic mentions 600 Anunnaki of the underworld, but only 300 Anunnaki of heaven, indicating the...
in the World championship and British Championship (600 Cup) as Team Mansfield with IEG Racing, using an LCR F1 outfit powered by a Yamaha R6 600 cc engine...
Global Information