NASCAR 75: No. 54 in a series of 75 stories that helped define the first three quarters of a century of NASCAR.
in 1969, there was talk of 200-mph laps on the speedway built to be a faster version of Dayton.
Thirteen years later, Benny Parsons drove a Pontiac LeMans past the 200-mph barrier in an official qualifying session at Talladega.built Talladega Superspeedway, his mammoth monument to speed in eastern Alabama, he wanted it to replicate Daytona International Speedway—but faster.
On the weekend that saw Benny Parsons eclipse the 200-mph barrier in qualifying, it was Darrell Waltrip who took the win at Talladega in ’82.NASCAR lore has it that other drivers topped the magic 200 mark at Talladega in one-off test runs at the track, butwith a speed of 200.447 at Talladega in March 1970. That speed, however, was recorded during test laps in a winged Dodge Daytona prepared by veteran team owner and mechanic Cotton Owens. Thirty laps into the session, Baker ran 200.
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