New Model Stock Car Races

On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the

Kansas State Fairgrounds

 Hutchinson, Kansas

Sunday – July 17, 1949

 

Promoter – Verne Hamilton of Hutchinson, Kansas

 

Attendance – 1,500

 

The Purse

            This was the first weekend of a series of four qualifying weekends of racing leading up to the finals to be run on Labor Day weekend.  40% of ticket sales went into the total purse.  $500 from that 40% was paid out in prize money for the race run on this day.  What was left after the $500 was paid was added to the prize money to be paid out for the race run on Labor Day weekend.

 

 

 

Gayford Dye

Lehman collection

Race Winner Jim Roper at left with car owner Millard Clothier

Clothier collection

Bill Lehman

Lehman collection

 

 

 

  

50 Mile Race – 11 Cars - 100 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Automobile

Laps Completed

Time

1

Jim Roper

Halstead, Kansas

Lincoln

100

1 hour 19 minutes

2

John Mock

Eureka, Kansas

Lincoln

   93

 

3

Marion Smith

Hugo, Colorado

Oldsmobile

   93

 

4

Rodney Clark

Emporia, Kansas

Hudson #13

   93

 

5

Darrell “Red” Wilson

Hutchinson, Kansas

DeSoto

   93

 

6

Ed Bowes

Topeka, Kansas

Pontiac

 

 

7

Bill Lehman

Hutchinson, Kansas

1941 Pontiac

 

 

 

Gayford Dye

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

   67

 

 

M. C. Lawson

Topeka, Kansas

 

   61

 

            Roper built up a 4 lap lead early and was never challenged for the lead.  Clark lost his gas tank with 3 laps to go but was still credited with a 4th place finish.  Lawson retired on the 61st lap with a broken axel.  Dye’s car lost a wheel on the 67th lap of the race.

 

 

 

 

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