1966 Smoky Mountain 200

The 1966 Smoky Mountain 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on July 28, 1966 at Smoky Mountain Raceway in Maryville, Tennessee.

The race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.

Summary

This 200-lap race would last for nearly one and a half hours; ten thousand spectators would watch an event where Richard Petty became the last-place finisher by virtue of steering problems on the 17th lap. Buddy Baker and David Pearson would dominate much of the race. Paul Lewis would go on to defeat Pearson by a time of two seconds. Lewis would dominate the final 64 laps of this event and would never let go. Unfortunately, Lewis was never able to record another victory in his NASCAR Cup Series career after the end of this event.

Smoky Mountain

Smoky Mountain is an adjective for things related to the Great Smoky Mountains (as in the Smoky Mountain National Park) and may refer to the following landforms:

See also

Smoky Mountain (Idaho)

Smoky Mountain, at 7,579 feet (2,310 m) above sea level is a peak in the Albion Mountains of Idaho. The peak is located in Cassia County about 0.35 mi (0.56 km) east of the border of City of Rocks National Reserve on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. It is 4.7 mi (7.6 km) north of the Nevada border.

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