NORRIS FRIEL MEMORIAL 300
Beltsville, Md. June 20, 1969
The 11th Grand Touring race of 1969 was held at Beltsville Speedway and was 300 laps on the 1/2 mile paved oval. The event was the inaugural Memorial race in memory of Norris Friel. Norris was NASCAR Chief Technical Inspector from 1956 until his death in 1966. Originally scheduled for the 16 th it was postponed due to rain and ran on the 20 th before 8,854 fans.
T.C. Hunt qualified on the pole with a time of 22.10 seconds and led the first 5 laps until Pete Hamilton took over the lead thru lap 16. Hunt went back out front until he was passed by Hamilton on the 54 th lap and led the rest of the way to capture his third win of 1969 by a 3 lap margin over Wayne Andrews who held a 3 lap advantage over third place finisher Buck Baker. There were only 3 cautions for 22 laps.
Fourth place finisher Tiny Lund made his first appearance for his new sponsor PEPSI-COLA. It was the same car he had been driving but now sported a new 1969 Cougar body and new paint scheme.
Fin Srt Car # Driver Car Laps Reason out
1 4 25 Pete Hamilton 68 Camaro 300 Running
2 3 15 Wayne Andrews 68 Cougar 297 Running
3 9 87 Buck Baker 68 Camaro 294 Running
4 2 16 Tiny Lund 69 Cougar 293 Running
5 10 11 Charlie Blanton 69 Cougar 293 Running
6 6 27 Jim Paschal 69 Javelin 292 Running
7 8 04 C.B. Gwyn 68 Cougar 290 Running
8 5 44 Ken Rush 68 Camaro 178 Running
9 17 41 Richard Childress 68 Camaro 172 Running
10 18 17 Ernie Shaw '68 Mustang 160 Running
11 16 3 Jim Vandiver 68 Camaro 145 Bln. Eng.
12 12 2 Randy Hutchinson 68 Camaro 135 Running
13 1 88 T.C. Hunt 68 Camaro 132 Bln. Eng.
14 13 69 Bob Wilcher 68 Camaro 119 Running
15 19 54 Bobby Fleming 68 Camaro 114 Running
16 15 21 Frank Sessoms 68 Camaro 86 Transm.
17 20 39 Barry Boggero 68 Camaro 82 Overheat.
18 11 74 Al Straub 69 Mustang 68 Running
19 14 7 Jimmy Vaughn 68 Camaro 57 Running
20 7 94 Bob Tullius 69 Javelin 33 Bln. Eng.
21 21 4 Jim Hailey 68 Camaro 18 Bln. Eng.
22 22 31 Earl Canavan 68 Javelin 18 Overheat.
23 23 72 Lennie Pond 68 Mustang 18 Oil Leak
Pete Hamilton
Tinys new colors and 69 body on the ex Bud Moore Cougar
Tiger Tom Pistone, Elmo and Tiny
updated by @dennis-andrews: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
