Jacksonville 200 Oct. 3, 1970

Jacksonville 200

Jacksonville Speedway

Jacksonville, Florida

Saturday, Oct. 3, 1970

Grand American race #33 of 1970 was held at Jacksonville Speedway, a 1/2 mile dirt oval. Starting positions were determined by 10 lap qualifying races won by Tiny Lund and Jim Paschal. Point leader Lund had not been in the winners circle in 2 months as Paschal and the American Performance Center Javelin had won 6 of the last 7 races. Starting from the pole Lund led 189 of the 200 laps resulting in a one lap margin of victory over Joe Dean Huss who led the other 11 laps. Paschal was sidelined by a broken rocker arm after 51 laps but the most excitement happened on lap 4 in a wreck that took out 3 ^rd place starter Jimmy Vaughn, Johnny Allen and Buck Baker.

Lund collected $1,350 of the $5,360 purse. Seventeen cars started the event with twelve running at the finish.

Fin Srt Car # Driver Car Laps Reason out

1 1 55 Tiny Lund 70 Camaro 200 Running

2 33 Joe Dean Huss 69 Camaro 199 Running

3 15 Wayne Andrews 68 Cougar 198 Running

4 88 T. C. Hunt 69 Camaro 196 Running

5 21 Frank Sessoms 68 Camaro 193 Running

6 86 David Boggs 69 Firebird 188 Running

7 17 Ernie Shaw 68 Mustang 187 Running

8 26 Richard Childress 68 Camaro 183 Running

9 19 Bobby Brewer 69 Camaro 182 Running

10 24 Bobby Wilson 68 Camaro 170 Running

11 90 Jimmy Lee Capps 68 Camaro 124 Heating

12 27 Jerry Hufflin 68 Camaro 121 Running

13 54 Bobby Fleming 69 Camaro 92 Oil leak

14 2 14 Jim Paschal 70 Javelin 51 Rocker arm

15 3 7 Jimmy Vaughn 69 Camaro 4 Wreck

16 5 97 Johnny Allen 69 Mustang 4 Wreck

17 87 Buck Baker 70 Firebird 4 Wreck

updated by @dennis-andrews: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM

Dad remarked in his log book that the track surface at Jacksonville was oil based and the car ran hot. He noted that the shaker screen needed to be revised for the next trip there. They had mounted the screen like the picture above of Tiny's car, fastened top and bottom to the nose of the car. The oil applied to the track surface collected on the screen and caused the dirt to stick to it. He observed that the Jacksonville regulars had mounted their shaker screens where they would pivot at the top. This allowed the screen to swing and as it hit the stop it would jar the dirt off the wire mesh.