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20 July 1952 · NASCAR Grand National schedule and results record, read; banked pointer in Culture lk-cul-racing
The banked file carried the race at year strength; the schedule record carries it to the day, and it prints here as the single race it was — South Bend's race, at boundary size in this town's file. Race 22 of the 1952 NASCAR Grand National season was run at Playland Park, South Bend, on 20 July 1952. Tim Flock won it, in a 1951 Hudson, over Lee Petty, second, and Bub King, third; Herb Thomas won the pole; the race ran 200 laps, and the finishing record carries nineteen cars. Flock's win was one of the eight that made him the season's champion. No second national-series race stands at Playland in the schedule record, and none stands anywhere on Lakeville ground at any date — the town's tie to the day is the one the banked file already prints: 1952 is also the year Bob Newton, of Lakeville, won the South Bend track championship, on South Bend ground. The race is a dated line in the county's record, not a Lakeville tradition, and it is printed at exactly that size.