August 13, 1954: Driving a #42 Chrysler, Lee Petty wins his sixth race of the season in a 200-lap, 100-mile race at Southern States Fairgrounds in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event was the first Grand National race at the track, and GN races continued to be promoted on the Carolina half-mile, dirt track through 1961.
Finding information for this race was really tough. I'm grateful for Perry Allen Wood's book, Silent Speedways of the Carolinas, to help give some tips about this lost track. While his book also didn't have a lot of info about this particular race, his explanation of the former location of the track helped me document a bit about the then and now of the site.
Read on for more:
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2013/08/august-13-1954-lee-scores-southern.html
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updated by @tmc-chase: 08/13/17 11:29:42AM