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

 

3

Jim Curley

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

4

Jim Roper

Halstead, Kansas

 

5

Gayford Dye

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

6

Clarence L. "Lead Foot" Bolton

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

7

Bill Mitchell

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

8

Bill Massey

Great Bend, Kansas

 

 

Delmar Bates

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

            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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