Bowman-Gray 250 June 6, 1970

Bowman-Gray 250

Bowman-Gray Stadium

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Saturday, June 6, 1970

Grand American race #13 of 1970 was held at Bowman-Gray Stadium a mile flat oval around a football field. Tiny Lund came into the event leading in the point standings. Ken Rush was second in points and Wayne Andrews third.

Ken Rush started from the pole after recording a record fast qualifying time of 16.744 seconds but failed to finish. Regular B-G Stadium modified driver Max Berrier climbed into one of the American Performance Center Javelins and drove it all the way to victory lane. T.C Hunt was second, Charlie Blanton third, Buck Baker fourth and Jimmy Vaughn fifth. Wayne Andrews ran out of gas on the last lap and coasted home sixth.

Fin Srt Car # Driver Car Laps Reason out

1 16 Max Berrier 70 Javelin 250 Running

2 88 T. C. Hunt 68 Camaro Running

3 42 Charlie Blanton 69 Camaro Running

4 87 Buck Baker 70 Firebird Running

5 7 Jimmy Vaughn 69 Camaro Running

6 15 Wayne Andrews 68 Cougar Running

Max Berrier in the American Performance Center Javelin, team car to the #14 Jim Paschal, with Buck Baker looking to the outside. A later report stated point leader Tiny Lund had axle problems and finished 17th.

The above report on Ken Rush may be in error. A later report states Rush finished 10th in a tight race. The tenth place finish brought him to within 4 points of Tiny in the point standings.

Two days after the race Tiny's wife Wanda gave birth to Christopher DeWayne Lund.

Dennis, this was one of few races I missed at BG due to time I spent in Viet Nam. Max was a great Modified

driver over at BG at that period of time. Bowman Gray has a lot of rich early NASCAR history. I'm glad I was

able to see so many races there with Curtis Turner, Glenn Wood, Lee Petty with his two son's, and so many

others.

Preview.

Editor: How do you plan to open your preview?

Writer: entry of racer Wayne Andrews, manager at an underwear plant

Editor: Ehh, what else ya got?

Writer: entry of Waye Andrews, plant manager of racy lingerie

Editor: The underwear is racy? Or Andrews?

Writer: entry of Wayne Andrews, the racing lingerie plant manager

Editor: I like it. Nice subterfuge. Print it.

Wayne could only wish he was from "Silver City" as the article states. Over in Siler City you paid for race cars and parts with greenbacks!

Chase, This reporter was a little behind on his facts. Dad had worked at what locals called the "slip factory" until 1969. Reid owned Tie-Rite Neckware Company in Asheboro, North Carolina and he expanded his operation by opening a plant in Siler City which dad managed during the years that he drove for Reid. And yes Dave, it took a lot of Reid's greenbacks. There is a place called Silver City in North Carolina and even today most spell checks will try to auto correct Slier City to Silver City.

But then and now, facts don't sell newspapers. Racy lingerie sells papers. Ha.

Aside from loving the racing part of all this, that answer refreshed my memory about Siler City textile mills (and yeah, everybody wrote "Silver" even back when we lived there). Tie-Rite had completely slipped my mind, and I certainly drove past it often enough. Thanks, Dennis.

Bump