In 1969 NASCAR Late Model Sportsman racing in Virginia was still in its very early, formative stages, having recently been added to the Virginia NASCAR tracks where Modified racing had been the order of the day.
The Gore family at Old Dominion Speedway in Manassas, Virginia immediately began promoting what by the following year would become one of the top NASCAR Late Model Sportsman races in the country, the annual Bill Bogley Gold Trophy . By 1970 it was drawing the top LMS drivers from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
The 1969 edition was populated with Virginia and Maryland drivers from those states' local weekly tracks.
What was no different from the big NASCAR Modified shows in the 60s was who contested for the win. As usual it was drivers from Richmond, with Sonny Hutchins wheeling the powder blue #01 Emanuel Zervakis Chevelle to the win over his lifetime rival, Ray Hendrick in a Flying #11 Chevelle. I don't know if it was the Bob Adams owned Flying #11 or the Tant/Mitchell version. Hendrick would come back to win the event in 1970 over a huge field of east coast LMS competitors.
I've not been able to find a writeup of the race, but did find an ad in the Fredericksburg paper. Richmond's Ted Hairfield had taken over the reins of the Junie Donlavey 1967 Fairlane #90 formerly driven by Hutchins.
If Tim Leeming is reading, I'd encourage him not to look at the model of the last place finisher!
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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM