New Model Stock Car Races
On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the
Kansas State Fairgrounds
Hutchinson, Kansas
Wednesday – July 4, 1951
Attendance – 2,500
Gayford Dye Lehman collection |
4th Place Finisher Jim Roper at Left with Car Owner Millard Clothier Clothier collection |
70 Mile Race – 10 Cars - 140 Laps
Prize money paid to the first eight finishers with $300 going to the winner
Place |
Driver |
From |
Time |
1 |
Jim Ware |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
1 hour, 30 minutes |
2 |
Jim Reed |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
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3 |
Jim Curley |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
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4 |
Jim Roper |
Halstead, Kansas |
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5 |
Gayford Dye |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
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6 |
Clarence L. "Lead Foot" Bolton |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
|
7 |
Bill Mitchell |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
|
8 |
Bill Massey |
Great Bend, Kansas |
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Delmar Bates |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
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Bates’ car blew a tire and rolled completely over landing on its wheels in a turn just ten minutes into the race. He was not injured. Ware took the lead early in his 1948 Packard and never made a pit stop. Reed was three laps behind Ware at the finish.
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