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1951 Darlington 250
Held on July 4, 1951 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, SC (Original configuration)
200 L, 250 M, 402.335 KM - Scheduled Distance

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FEATURE RESULTS

Fin	St	#	Driver	Sponsor	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	7	2	Walt Faulkner		Kuzma / Offy	200	170	running	500
2	12	99	Tony Bettenhausen	Belanger Motors	Kurtis / Offy	200	0	running	400
3	2	4	Cecil Green		Kurtis / Offy	200	0	running	350
4	19	33	Bill Mackey	Iddings	Meyer / Offy	200	0	running	300
5	14	9	Jack McGrath		Kurtis / Offy	200	0	running	250
6	23	31	Manny Ayulo	Coast Grain	Lesovsky / Offy	200	0	running	200
7	15	1	Henry Banks	Hopkins Blue Crown	Moore / Offy	200	0	running	150
8	18	83	Mike Nazaruk		Kurtis / Offy	199	0	running	125
9	22	8	Chuck Stevenson	Bardahl Oil Company	Marchese / Offy	196	0	running	100
10	3	44	Walt Brown	Federal Engineering	Kurtis / Offy	195	0	running	17
11	10	23	Cliff Griffith		Kurtis / Offy	193	0	running	38
12	27	57	Andy Linden		Silnes-Sherman / Offy	188	0	running	12
13	21	7	Paul Russo		Russo-Nichels / Offy	185	0	running	0
14	9	19	Kenny Eaton		Kurtis / Offy	181	0	running	0
15	26	69	Gene Force	Brown Motor Co.	Kurtis / Offy	177	0	running	0
16	1	79	Johnny McDowell		Kurtis / Offy	170	0	running	0
17	25	71	Gordon Reid		Stevens / Offy	167	5	magneto	0
18	24	66	Dick Frazier		Stevens / Offy	152	0	gauge	0
19	28	39	Rex Easton		Hill / Offy	149	0	magneto	0
20	17	53	Neal Carter		Bardazon / Offy	120	0	universal joint	0
21	16	10	Bill Schindler		Kurtis / Offy	117	0	magneto	0
22	13	78	Ray Knepper	Bardahl Oil Company	Silnes / Offy	97	0	piston	0
23	20	37	Johnnie Parsons	Marion Engineering	Kurtis / Offy	85	0	rear end	0
24	5	76	Jimmy Davies		Pawl / Offy	75	0	crankshaft	0
25	8	98	George Connor		Kurtis / Offy	45	0	piston	0
26	4	81	Bill Vukovich	Central Excavating	Trevis / Offy	25	25	connecting rod	0
27	11	73	Carl Scarborough	McNamara	Kurtis / Offy	17	0	oil line	0
28	6	26	Joe James		Watson / Offy	6	0	flywheel	0
DID NOT START
			Duane Carter					DNS
DID NOT QUALIFY
			Johnnie Parsons					DNQ
			Duke Dinsmore					DNQ
			Johnnie Tolan					DNQ
			Rodger Ward					DNQ
			Joe Barzda					DNQ
			Freddie Agabashian					DNQ
			Carl Forberg					DNQ
			Doc Shanebrook					DNQ

RACE DATA
Did not start:
Did not qualify:
Time of Race: 2h:23:14
Starting Lineup Set By: Time Trials
Fast Qualifier: Johnny McDowell - 39.95 sec.
Preliminary Feature Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/{{{PrelimWinners}}}|{{{PrelimWinners}}}]]
Heat Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/{{{HeatWinners}}}|{{{HeatWinners}}}]]
Qualifier Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/{{{QualWinners}}}|{{{QualWinners}}}]]
Dash Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/{{{DashWinners}}}|{{{DashWinners}}}]]
Scramble Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/{{{ScrambleWinners}}}|{{{ScrambleWinners}}}]]
Consi Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/{{{ConsiWinners}}}|{{{ConsiWinners}}}]]
Non-Qualifiers Race Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/{{{NonQualWinners}}}|{{{NonQualWinners}}}]]
Margin of Victory:
Average Speed: 104.239 mph
Cautions: ?? for ?? laps - not available
Lead Changes: 5 among 3 drivers - Bill Vukovich (1-25); Gordon Reid (26); Walt Faulkner (27); Gordon Reid (28-31); Walt Faulkner (32-200)
Fastest Lap: Unknown/Unentered
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
Relief Drivers: Car #44: Bill Vukovich (58 points) Car #23: Rodger Ward (41 laps), 12 points) Car #57: Roy Sherman (13 points) Car #7: Johnnie Tolan Car #69: Joe James (70 laps)