Tiny Lund in the Pit at the 1965 Daytona 500
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NASCAR opens each season with the Daytona 500, the most important race in its top-level series. Daytona International Speedway's steeply banked turns and long back straightaway allow for fast speeds and exciting competition. Fred Lorenzen won the 1965 Daytona 500 with the Holman-Moody team. That year's average race speed was 141.539 miles per hour.
NASCAR opens each season with the Daytona 500, the most important race in its top-level series. Daytona International Speedway's steeply banked turns and long back straightaway allow for fast speeds and exciting competition. Fred Lorenzen won the 1965 Daytona 500 with the Holman-Moody team. That year's average race speed was 141.539 miles per hour.
Artifact
Slide (Photograph)
Date Made
14 February 1965
Subject Date
14 February 1965
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2009.158.4036
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 2 in
Width: 2 in
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