The 1971 Maryville 200 was a NASCAR

NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...

 Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that took place on April 15, 1971 at Smoky Mountain Raceway in the American

United States

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 community of Maryville

Maryville, Tennessee

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, Tennessee

Tennessee

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Summary

Four thousand and two hundred fans would come out to see vehicles average a speed of 88.697 mi/h on a paved oval track. Richard Petty

Richard Petty

Richard Lee Petty is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series...

 would defeat Benny Parsons

Benny Parsons

Benjamin Stewart Parsons was an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst on TBS, ESPN, NBC and TNT...

 by a time of eight seconds. Friday Hassler

Friday Hassler

Raymond "Friday" Hassler was a NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series driver.-Summary:He made his debut in 1960 but only drove a handful of races per year until 1967 when he drove 21 of the 49 races for Red Sharp and finished 32nd in points. He improved to 27th for Sharp the next year and...

 received the pole position

Pole position

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 with a speed of 91.464 mi/h while qualifying on a speedway spanning 0.52 mile (0.8368568 km). There was only one caution which lasted for three laps. D. K. Ulrich

D. K. Ulrich

Donald Keith Ulrich is a former driver/owner in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. As a driver, he had sixteen top ten finishes in 273 starts. His last race came in 1992....

 would run his first Cup Series race here while E.J. Trivette

E.J. Trivette

E.J. Trivette is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver.-Career summary:...

 would retire from NASCAR after this race. Smoky Mountain Raceway would close forever after this race due to the changes in the sport during the Winston Cup era that would modernize it. Abbreviation of the Cup Series schedule was the "order of the day" in the 1970s as the new sponsors wanted NASCAR to have a schedule that was structured closer to that of the National Football League

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Richard Petty would win $1000 from winning the 125th race in his NASCAR Cup Series career (which would be the equivalent to $ in today's money).

Finishing order

1.   Richard Petty
2.   Benny Parsons†
3.   Friday Hassler†
4.   Elmo Langley
   Elmo Langley
   Elmo Langley was a NASCAR driver and owner. Langley primarily used the number "64" on his race cars during his NASCAR career.-Racing career:...
   
   †
5.   Dick Brooks
   Dick Brooks
   Richard "Dick" Brooks was an American NASCAR driver. Born in Porterville, California, he was the 1969 NASCAR Rookie of the Year, and went on to win the 1973 Talladega 500...
   
   †
6.   James Hylton
   James Hylton
   James Harvey Hylton is a part-time race car driver. He is a two-time winner in NASCAR and competes in the ARCA RE/MAX Series,finishing 16th in points in 2006. He made headlines while attempting to qualify for the 2007 Daytona 500 at age 72...
   
   
7.   Charlie Glotzbach
   Charlie Glotzbach
   Charles "Charlie: Glotzbach is a former ARCA and was a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver. Charlie holds one of the oldest race records in NASCAR. He was also known as "The Chargin' Comet" and "Chargin' Charlie"....
   
   
8.   G.C. Spencer
   G.C. Spencer
   G. C. Spencer July 9, 1925 in Owensboro, Kentucky – September 20, 2007 in Johnson City, Tennessee was a NASCAR driver who competed in 415 Grand National/Winston Cup races from 1958 to 1977...
   
   †
9.   Cecil Gordon
   Cecil Gordon
   Cecil Gordon was a NASCAR driver. He is not related to Sprint Cup driver Jeff Gordon although the two drivers drove in car number 24....
   
   
10.   Bill Champion
    Bill Champion
    Buford Billy Champion , is a retired American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher who played in 202 games in the Major Leagues from -. He would play for the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies.-External links:...
    
    
11.   Henley Gray
    Henley Gray
    Henley Gray is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver whose career spanned from 1964 to 1977.-Summary:...
    
    
12.   Walter Ballard
    Walter Ballard
    Walter Ballard is a former NASCAR Winston Cup driver from Houston, Texas.He made a single Grand National start in 1966 and did not return to the series until 1971 when he ran a nearly full season in a car owned by his father Vic capturing 11 top tens on his way to Rookie of the Year honors and a...
    
    
13.   Jabe Thomas
    Jabe Thomas
    Cerry Ezra "Jabe" Thomas is a retired NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series driver who competed from the mid 1960s through the late 1970s. His son Ronnie was also a NASCAR Cup Series driver; competing from 1977 to 1989.-Career:Thomas drove 75243 laps of racing and earned $295,497 in total...
    
    
14.   Frank Warren
    Frank Warren (NASCAR driver)
    Frank Warren is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver who raced from 1963 to 1980.Out of 88863 laps finished in his career, Warren had led 72 of them. Warren's total career earnings were $625,886 and while his average finish was 20th place in his entire career. The total amount of miles...
    
    
15.   Dean Dalton
16.   Bill Hollar
    Bill Hollar
    Bill Hollar is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver who participated in 29 races out of his nine-year career in NASCAR....
    
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17.   Bill Seifert
    Bill Seifert
    Bill Seifert is a retired NASCAR Sprint Cup Series who raced from 1966 to 1979.-Summary:Seifert raced 41,875 laps for . His grand total for race winnings is $147,831 USD . Seifert's average career start is 21st and his average career finish is 19th...
    
    *
18.   J.D. McDuffie
    J.D. McDuffie
    John Delphus McDuffie was a NASCAR Winston Cup driver. He raced in the top division of NASCAR from 1963 to 1991. McDuffie had 106 top-tens in his Cup Series career...
    
    *†
19.   Earl Brooks*
20.   Dick May
    Dick May
    Dick May was a NASCAR driver who competed in 185 races in the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup between 1967 and 1985....
    
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21.   Dave Marcis
    Dave Marcis
    Dave Marcis is a retired driver on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit whose career spanned five decades. Marcis won five times over this tenure, twice at Richmond, including his final win in 1982...
    
    *
22.   Robert Brown*
23.   John Sears*†
24.   Wendell Scott
    Wendell Scott
    Wendell Oliver Scott was an American stock car racing driver from Danville, Virginia. He is the only black driver to win a race in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. According to a 2008 biography of Scott, he broke the color barrier in Southern stock car racing on May 23, 1952, at the Danville...
    
    *†
25.   E.J. Trivette*
26.   Neil Castles
    Neil Castles
    Neil "Soapy" Castles is a retired NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series driver that participate from 1957 to 1976.-History:...
    
    *
27.   Ed Negre
    Ed Negre
    Ed Negre is a retired NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series driver who raced from 1955 to 1979....
    
    *
28.   Bill Shirey
    Bill Shirey
    Bill Shirey is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver who accomplished three finishes in the "top ten" and has driven for 9588 laps - the equivalent of . He started 24th on average and also finished an average of 24th place...
    
    *
29.   D. K. Ulrich*
30.   Jimmy Crawford
    Jimmy Crawford (NASCAR driver)
    Jimmy Crawford was a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver who raced in 15 different races in his five-year career . While failing to win a race, Crawford has managed to experience of top-level stock car racing...
    
    *†

* Driver failed to finish race

† signifies that the driver is known to be deceased