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NASCAR drivers Race History: 1965 Virginia 500
Martinsville Speedway was only one of a few tracks that held a little "magic" for Fred Lorenzen.

Lorenzen gained his fourth straight victory at the half-mile paved track, leading the final 322 laps and winning the NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National Virginia 500 for his second triumph of the season.
Marvin Panch gave Lorenzen a strong chase near the end, but fell two car lengths short and settled for second place. Dick Hutcherson was third, Tiny Lund fourth and hometown favorite Buddy Arrington fifth.
Lorenzen paced himself in the early stages as Junior Johnson set the pace. Johnson led the first 61 laps but had to pit when a tire came apart after just 30 miles. He lost a lap and a half, but staged a blistering comeback. Thirty-two laps later -- on lap 93 --Johnson was back in front.
Johnson had pumped his lead up to 17 seconds by the 178th lap. As he was cruising along uncontested, the left front wheel collapsed and he went into the pits again. Returning to the track, Johnson started his charge again and was in third place when another tire blew, sending his Ford into the wall.
Lorenzen gave credit to crew chief Jack Sullivan for coaching him through the 250-miler.
"I was tempted to run with Junior early," Lorenzen said. "But Jack flashed me a sign that said 'think.' I settled down after that and waited for my chance."
Panch lost a lap in the pits midway through the race. His Wood Brothers team had attended a funeral for a family member and did not arrive at the track until the race was half over.
"That lap I lost in the pits cost me," Panch said. "But I'm not knocking the crew. They worked hard and did a fine job."
Tom Pistone, who re-entered NASCAR Grand National racing after a three-year layoff, started eighth but was forced out of the race with a blown engine. "I'm just about out of money," said the Illinois 'Tiger.' "That blown engine has all but washed me up."
Lorenzen averaged 66.765 mph for his 21st career NASCAR victory. An estimated crowd of 10,000, about half of what speedway management had been expecting, showed up for the race.

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Race History: 1965 National 400
Fred Lorenzen out dueled a trio of rivals in a crowd-pleasing stretch run and won the spine-tingling National 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Lorenzen emerged from a three-abreast battle for the lead to capture his 11th superspeedway race.
Lorenzen, bidding to end a five-month winless slump, and A.J. Foyt treated the estimated crowd of 50,000 to a tremendous white-knuckle struggle for 44 laps. Dick Hutcherson, Lorenzen's teammate on the Holman-Moody team and Curtis Turner were following in the leaders' shadow.
With six laps to go, Foyt made a stab at Lorenzen on the high side entering turn three. His Ford darted up high, wiggled a little and then caught the guard rail. Foyt rode the barrier for 100 yards before spinning out. Hutcherson squeaked by. Turner spun his car to avoid Foyt.
Lorenzen scooted out to a lead and beat Hutcherson by three car lengths. Ned Jarrett got fourth place and Lee Roy Yarbrough fifth. Foyt recovered and finished sixth.
Jarrett's fourth-place finish enabled him to clinch the 1965 NASCAR Grand National (forerunner of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series) championship.
Cale Yarborough led for 27 of the first 47 laps, but the Timmonsville, S.C., youngster was out of the race early with engine problems.
Lorenzen averaged 119.117 mph as 47 laps were run under the caution flag.

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Ned Jarrett     
NASCAR Winston Cup Career: 1953-57, 1959-66

The NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion in 1961 and 1965, and the winner of 50 NASCAR Winston Cup Series races and 36 pole positions, "Gentleman Ned" retired as a driver in 1966 at the age of 34. Jarrett earned a spot in the record books even before winning his first NASCAR Winston Cup Series event, earning NASCAR Busch Series championships in 1957 and 1958. His 50 victories place him eighth on the all-time list. His biggest win came in the 1965 Southern 500 at Darlington Speedway. Jarrett was inducted into the National Motorsports Press Association's Hall of Fame in 1972, the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1990, the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1991, the National Auto Racing Hall of Fame and American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 1992, and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1997. Jarrett picked up a microphone after hanging up his helmet and is now a respected motorsports analyst for CBS Sports and ESPN, as well as the host of the "Inside NASCAR" weekly TV show on TNN: The Nashville Network and the "World of Racing" daily radio program aired on MRN Radio.

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Season Summary: 1965
Ford wins 32 consecutive NASCAR Grand National (forerunner of NASCAR Winston Cup Series) races from Feb. 12 through July 25 to establish an all-time record for manufacturers in major league stock car racing.
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company introduces the "fuel cell," which was designed to minimize fuel leaks and lessen the likelihood of fires in the event of accidents, and it becomes mandatory on all NASCAR Winston Cup race cars.
Ned Jarrett wins a 100-mile NASCAR Winston Cup race at Shelby, N.C., on May 27 by 22 laps over runner-up Bud Moore. The margin of victory is the greatest in terms of laps in the history of NASCAR Winston Cup racing.
The Joe Weatherly Stock Car Racing Museum opens at the Darlington International Raceway, in honor of the late, two-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion.
Jarrett captures the Southern 500 at Darlington by 19.25 miles (14 laps), the greatest margin of victory in terms of miles in NASCAR Winston Cup history. Darlington was then measured at 1.375 miles.
NASCAR begins sanctioning organized drag racing with the new NASCAR Drag Racing Division. Several different classes are governed by the sanctioning body based in Daytona Beach, Fla.
North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham opens in October with the American 500. Curtis Turner wins the event in a Wood Brothers Ford.
Ned Jarrett wins 13 races en route to the 1965 NASCAR Winston Cup championship, his second in the major leagues of stock car racing and unlike his first title in 1961, when he won only once. Freshman Dick Hutcherson wins nine times and finishes second in the point chase. Hutcherson is not eligible for NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year honors since he had previously won a championship from another sanctioning body.

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