How the 1969 Yankee 600 NASCAR Cup Race at Michigan(!) Fell Short of Expectations

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How the 1969 Yankee 600 NASCAR Cup Race at Michigan(!) Fell Short of Expectations
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David Pearson won the second NASCAR Cup Series race at the 2-mile oval in Brooklyn that was designed to rival Bruton Smith's 600-miler at Charlotte.

Charlotte Motor Speedway wasn’t the only track to schedule a 600-mile race in NASCAR history.

It was meant to be a big kickoff for Bruton Smith’s new speedway in the heart of NASCAR country. It wasn’t a roaring success, to say the least. Portions of the track came up during the race, and teams put screens on the front of their cars in attempts to keep chunks of debris from penetrating the radiators. Joe Lee Johnson won the race —a 5-hour, 34-minute marathon—by four laps.

LoPatin spared no expense. He brought in designer Charles Moneypenny, who had been the key architect of Daytona International Speedway a decade before, to map Michigan’s race course. International driving star Stirling Moss consulted on the design of the Michigan road course. Later that year, LoPatin added another slice of ambition to his sparkling new venue. The second NASCAR race at MIS was scheduled Aug. 10, and it was labeled the Yankee 600 – a 600-mile event, 300 laps over the two-mile course.The Enthusiast NetworkBad weather, a plague that would continue to hamper LoPatin’s portfolio of tracks, hit the Michigan track on race day. There were two long rain delays during the race.

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