The 1971 Delaware 500 was a NASCAR

NASCAR

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 Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) race that took place on October 17, 1971 at Dover Downs International Speedway

Dover International Speedway

Dover International Speedway is a NASCAR-sanctioned race track located in Dover, Delaware, owned by, and serving as the corporate headquarters of, Dover Motorsports, Inc. It is co-located with a harness racing track, Dover Downs, and shares the complex with Dover Downs Hotel & Casino...

 (now called Dover International Speedway).

Summary

All the racing action took place in the American

United States

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 community of Dover

Dover, Delaware

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, Delaware

Delaware

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 with five hundred laps completed on a paved oval track spanning 1 miles (1.6 km). It took four hours and three minutes (243 minutes) for the race to reach its full conclusion; Richard Petty

Richard Petty

Richard Lee Petty is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series...

 defeated Charlie Glotzbach

Charlie Glotzbach

Charles "Charlie: Glotzbach is a former ARCA and was a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver. Charlie holds one of the oldest race records in NASCAR. He was also known as "The Chargin' Comet" and "Chargin' Charlie"....

 by more than one lap in front of eighteen thousand people. Notable speeds for the race were: 123.254 mi/h for the average speed (which was a record during that era) and 132.811 mi/h for the pole position speed. Total winnings for this race were $59,965 ($ in today's money). Bobby Allison dominated the early portion of the race. However, they found faulty lug nut

Lug nut

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s after pitting with two laps in the lead (which cost him an almost-guaranteed victory in that race).

Finishers

1. Richard Petty
2. Charlie Glotzbach (highest finishing Chevrolet
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    entry)
3. Bobby Isaac
   Bobby Isaac
   Bobby Isaac is a former NASCAR Grand National champion.-Early life:Isaac grew up on a farm near Catawba, North Carolina, the second youngest of nine children...
   
    (highest finishing Dodge
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    entry)
4. Bobby Allison
   Bobby Allison
   Robert Arthur Allison is a former NASCAR Winston Cup driver and was named one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers. His two sons, Clifford Allison and Davey Allison followed him into racing, and both died within a year of each other....
   
   
5. Bill Dennis
   Bill Dennis
   Bill Dennis is a former NASCAR driver and rookie of the year in the Grand National Series .-Racing career:...
   
   
6. David Ray Boggs
7. Richard D. Brown
8. Elmo Langley
   Elmo Langley
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9. Walter Ballard
   Walter Ballard
   Walter Ballard is a former NASCAR Winston Cup driver from Houston, Texas.He made a single Grand National start in 1966 and did not return to the series until 1971 when he ran a nearly full season in a car owned by his father Vic capturing 11 top tens on his way to Rookie of the Year honors and a...
   
    (highest winning Ford
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    entry)
10. James Hylton
    James Hylton
    James Harvey Hylton is a part-time race car driver. He is a two-time winner in NASCAR and competes in the ARCA RE/MAX Series,finishing 16th in points in 2006. He made headlines while attempting to qualify for the 2007 Daytona 500 at age 72...
    
    
11. Cecil Gordon
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12. Paul Tyler
13. Frank Warren
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    Frank Warren is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver who raced from 1963 to 1980.Out of 88863 laps finished in his career, Warren had led 72 of them. Warren's total career earnings were $625,886 and while his average finish was 20th place in his entire career. The total amount of miles...
    
    
14. Raymond Williams
15. Ed Negre
    Ed Negre
    Ed Negre is a retired NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series driver who raced from 1955 to 1979....
    
    
16. Henley Gray
    Henley Gray
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17. John Soares, Jr.
18. Jabe Thomas
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    *
19. Dick May
    Dick May
    Dick May was a NASCAR driver who competed in 185 races in the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup between 1967 and 1985....
    
    
20. Wendell Scott
    Wendell Scott
    Wendell Oliver Scott was an American stock car racing driver from Danville, Virginia. He is the only black driver to win a race in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. According to a 2008 biography of Scott, he broke the color barrier in Southern stock car racing on May 23, 1952, at the Danville...
    
    *
21. John Sears
22. Neil Castles
    Neil Castles
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23. Tommy Gale
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24. Ken Meisenhelder*
25. Bill Shirey
    Bill Shirey
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    *
26. J.D. McDuffie
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27. Bill Champion
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28. Maynard Troyer
    Maynard Troyer
    Maynard Troyer is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver who raced in the 1971 and the 1973 Winston Cup seasons.-Summary:...
    
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29. Benny Parsons
    Benny Parsons
    Benjamin Stewart Parsons was an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst on TBS, ESPN, NBC and TNT...
    
    *
30. Richard Childress
    Richard Childress
    Richard Childress is a former NASCAR driver and the current team owner of Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series. As a business entrepreneur, Childress became one of the wealthiest men in North Carolina...
    
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31. Fred Lorenzen
    Fred Lorenzen
    Fred Lorenzen , nicknamed The Golden Boy, Fast Freddie, The Elmhurst Express and Flyin Freddy, is a former NASCAR driver active between 1958 and 1972. He won the 1965 Daytona 500. Lorenzen was born in Elmurst, Illinois.-Early career:Lorenzen first caught the car bug young, and had built his first...
    
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32. Earl Brooks*
33. Friday Hassler
    Friday Hassler
    Raymond "Friday" Hassler was a NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series driver.-Summary:He made his debut in 1960 but only drove a handful of races per year until 1967 when he drove 21 of the 49 races for Red Sharp and finished 32nd in points. He improved to 27th for Sharp the next year and...
    
    *
34. G.C. Spencer
    G.C. Spencer
    G. C. Spencer July 9, 1925 in Owensboro, Kentucky – September 20, 2007 in Johnson City, Tennessee was a NASCAR driver who competed in 415 Grand National/Winston Cup races from 1958 to 1977...
    
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35. Larry Baumel
    Larry Baumel
    Larry Baumel is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver whose career spanned from 1969 to 1971.-Summary:...
    
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36. James Cox*
37. Charlie Roberts
    Charlie Roberts
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38. Bill Seifert
    Bill Seifert
    Bill Seifert is a retired NASCAR Sprint Cup Series who raced from 1966 to 1979.-Summary:Seifert raced 41,875 laps for . His grand total for race winnings is $147,831 USD . Seifert's average career start is 21st and his average career finish is 19th...
    
    *
39. Dub Simpson*
40. Dean Dalton*

* Driver failed to finish race