GRAND AMERICAN 100 July 11, 1970

GRAND AMERICAN 100

South Boston Speedway

South Boston, Virginia

Saturday, July 11, 1970

Grand American race #18 of 1970 was held at South Boston Speedway, the second trip to the 3/8 mile paved oval. Max Berrier was back in the #16 American Performance Center Javelin after turning it over to Bobby Allison on the road course at Daytona and put it on the pole with a time of 15.65 seconds. Berrier lead the first 104 laps before Tiny Lund got the lead and held it the rest of the way to claim his 14 ^th win of 1970 in his Ronnie Hopkins prepared Camaro. Lund garnered $1,500 of the $8,760 purse.

Twenty six cars took the green and 17 were running at the finish. There was only one caution for 8 laps. Ken Rush lost a little ground to Lund and Andrews in the points race but held on to second with Lund first and Andrews third.

Fin Srt Car # Driver Car Laps Reason out

1 9 55 Tiny Lund 70 Camaro 280 Running

2 1 16 Max Berrier 70 Javelin 277 Running

3 7 15 Wayne Andrews 70 Cougar 275 Running

4 4 41 Gary Myers 69 Mustang 274 Running

5 24 88 T. C. Hunt 69 Camaro 272 Running

6 6 44 Ken Rush 69 Camaro 270 Running

7 16 8 Phil Wills 69 Camaro 268 Running

8 14 33 Joe Dean Huss 69 Camaro 268 Running

9 3 87 Buck Baker 70 Firebird 268 Running

10 18 17 Ernie Shaw 68 Mustang 265 Running

11 20 92 Paul Tyler 69 Firebird 263 Running

12 11 0 Stan Starr, Jr. 68 Camaro 258 Running

13 5 7 Jimmy Vaughn 69 Camaro 249 Running

14 21 9 Stan Starr 68 Camaro 249 Running

15 19 24 Bobby Wilson 68 Camaro 240 Running

16 17 86 David Boggs 69 Firebird 226 Engine

17 22 26 Richard Childress 68 Camaro 218 Running

18 15 54 Bobby Fleming 69 Camaro 216 Running

19 2 14 Jim Paschal 70 Javelin 214 Rear end

20 13 30 Kruger Jophnson 69 Camaro 103 Clutch

21 10 99 Phil Spiak '68 Camaro 88 Timing gear

22 8 66 Phil Kendrick 69 Camaro 67 Heating

23 12 5 Pee Wee Wentz '69 Camaro 39 Engine

24 25 39 Earl Briggs 69 Camaro 34 Ball joint

25 23 19 Bobby Brewer 69 Camaro 8 Smoking

26 26 65 A. J. Cox 70 Mustang 2 Carb.

Great report Dennis, Looks like Wayne was super consistent with the Bud Moore car.

Dennis, I had hoped to see if I could find a pre and/or post race report for this Grand American race in the fold3 newspaper archives for the South Boston Gazette-Virginian. Unfortunately, the final archived edition was the June 30, 1970 issue, 11 days before the Grand American race. The only racing coverage in that edition was a preview of the July 4, 1970 upcoming Late Model Sportsman race at South Boston:

Found a couple of brief AP wire reports about the race. Not a lot of details. But hey, readers DID get a bit of backgammon trivia in addition to the race results.

From the Niagara Falls Gazette

From Schenectady Gazette

The Virgin Islands Daily News ran a brief AP preview piece on the South Boston GA race, even if it did appear several days after the event! Guess they were slowing down and running on Island Time!

Great find Dave, SoBo regular Pee Wee Wentz was also a regular on the Grand American Series.