CASEY 200
North Carolina State Fairgrounds
Raleigh, North Carolina
Friday, August 14, 1970
Grand American race #27 of 1970 was held at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds 1/2 mile dirt oval.
Tiny Lund took the pole in his Ronnie Hopkins 70 Camaro with a time of 26.32 sec. at an average speed of 68.389 mph. He was followed by Jim Paschal in a Javelin, T.C. Hunt in a Camaro and Wayne Andrews in a 69 Camaro borrowed from Doug Aldridge as they had ran out of engines for Reid Shaw's Cougars.
At the drop of the green flag Andrews jumped into third behind Lund and Paschal but began loosing ground to the leading duo and was lapped by Lund on lap 25. By lap 54 he was in the pits with what appeared to be a blown head gasket. The track was real muddy and the #3 Camaro was not equipped with a shaker screen allowing the radiator to get clogged causing it to overheat, he finished 12th. Lund soon had a similar problem as his shaker screen had a close mesh screen with small openings that became clogged and caused the engine to overheat allowing Paschal to go to the lead on lap 75. From there he built a comfortable lead and was not threatened on the way to his 5th win of the season and second in a row.
The knock on the series had been that the track promoters had complained the cars could not draw a crowd. That was not the case in Raleigh as 4,500 were in attendance but unfortunately only 13 cars were available for the race.
Fin Srt Car # Driver Car Laps Status
1 2 14 Jim Paschal 70 Javelin 200 Running
2 33 Joe Dean Huss 68 Camaro Running
3 26 Richard Childress 68 Camaro Running
4 87 Buck Baker 70 Firebird Running
5 7 Jimmy Vaughn 69 Camaro Running
3 88 T. C. Hunt 68 Camaro
1 55 Tiny Lund 70 Camaro 75
12 4 3 Wayne Andrews 69 Camaro 54
updated by @dennis-andrews: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
