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City 420 winner Cale Yarborough is interviewed by local sports anchor Paul
Eells in victory lane.
Nashville, Tenn. (May 12, 1973) – Steady Cale Yarborough lead nearly all the way in winning NASCAR’s Music City 420 for Grand National drivers Saturday night at Nashville’s Fairgrounds Speedway.
Yarborough, from Timmonsville, S.C., started on the pole and led all but one or two laps in his red and white Chevelle. The victory earned Yarborough $5,255 and 125 championship points.
The only other leader was Cecil Gordon, who assumed the lead briefly a third of the way through the race when Yarborough and Richard Petty, running second at the time, pitted simultaneously for gas and tires.
Gordon finished fourth and Petty, who went out on lap 400 when “something burned out up front,” finished 12th.
Benny Parsons, who needed to complete only the first lap to assure himself of the point title in the first leg of the Winston Cup Series, earned $10,000 for his first lap. He finished the race in second place driving a Chevrolet.
Buddy Baker survived a lost tire on lap 106 and charged back to place third.
Petty, who had won at Fairgrounds Speedways’ 5/8-mile track seven times previously, ran second much of the race after starting seventh.
Bobby Allison, who with Petty was one of the pre-race favorites, was in the pits often and spun out on lap 221. He would finish fifth.
Twenty-eight starters would divide the $43,000 purse. Eighteen cars were still on the track when Yarborough took the checkered.
Results –
1. Cale Yarborough
2. Benny Parson
3. Buddy Baker
4. Cecil Gordon
5. Bobby Allison
6. Coo Coo Marlin
7. Bobby Isaac
8. David Sisco
9. J.D. McDuffie
10.Vic Parsons
11.Dave Marcis
12.James Hylton
13.Richard Petty
14.Buddy Arrington
15.Dean Dalton
16.Rick Newsom
17.Elmo Langley
18.Jabe Thomas
19.Robert Brown
20.Frank Warren
21.Charlie Roberts
22.Walter Ballard
23.Richard Childress
24.Darrell Waltrip
25.Henley Grey
26.Alton Jones
27.Ed Negre
28.Bobby Poole
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