The 1967 Capital City 300 was a NASCAR

NASCAR

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 Grand National (now Sprint Cup Series) racing event that took place on September 10, 1967 at the Virginia State Fairgrounds in Richmond

Richmond, Virginia

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, Virginia

Virginia

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, USA

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Summary

Richard Petty

Richard Petty

Richard Lee Petty is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series...

 would defeat Dick Hutcherson

Dick Hutcherson

Dick Hutcherson was an American businessman and a former stock car racer. A native of Keokuk, Iowa, Hutcherson drove in NASCAR competition from 1964 to 1967. In 1965 he finished second in the overall NASCAR Drivers Championship and had nine wins...

 after all the laps in the race were completed. The other top ten finishers were: Paul Goldsmith

Paul Goldsmith

Paul Goldsmith is a motorcycle Hall of Famer, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee and former USAC and NASCAR driver.- Motorcycle career :...

, Sam McQuagg

Sam McQuagg

Samuel "Sam" McQuagg was an American former NASCAR Rookie of the Year driver. He died of cancer on January 3, 2009 at the age of 73...

, James Hylton

James Hylton

James Harvey Hylton is a part-time race car driver. He is a two-time winner in NASCAR and competes in the ARCA RE/MAX Series,finishing 16th in points in 2006. He made headlines while attempting to qualify for the 2007 Daytona 500 at age 72...

, Wendell Scott

Wendell Scott

Wendell Oliver Scott was an American stock car racing driver from Danville, Virginia. He is the only black driver to win a race in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. According to a 2008 biography of Scott, he broke the color barrier in Southern stock car racing on May 23, 1952, at the Danville...

, Worth McMillion

Worth McMillion

Worth McMillion is a NASCAR Grand National driver who participated from 1962 to 1969 for 62 races. His first event was the 1962 untitled race at South Boston Speedway while his final event was the 1969 Richmond 500. McMillion has finished in the once in the top-five and eighteen times in the top-ten...

, E.J. Trivette

E.J. Trivette

E.J. Trivette is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver.-Career summary:...

, Henley Gray

Henley Gray

Henley Gray is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver whose career spanned from 1964 to 1977.-Summary:...

, and George Davis. There were twenty-eight American competitors and two Canadian competitors (Frog Fagan

Frog Fagan

Harold "Frog" Fagan was a NASCAR Winston Cup driver from the Toronto subdivision of Willowdale, Ontario, Canada.-History:...

 and Don Biederman

Don Biederman

Don Biederman was a Canadian stock car racer from Port Credit, Ontario.Since his passing, Biederman has been inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame. He even has a memorial race held in his honor annually called "The Don Beiderman Memorial." This race is operated under the OSCAAR...

). The time of the race was two hours, thirty-six minutes, and ten seconds with the average speed being 57.631 mi/h. The pole position spot was chosen by a random drawing. Eleven thousand fans would see a race with eleven cautions for seventy-one laps and three hundred laps were completed on a track spanning 0.5 mile (0.80467 km). Econo Wash and Nichels Engineering were the main sponsors for the drivers.

Richard Petty would receive ($ in today's money) $2,450 for winning the race while Don Biederman would be the lowest finishing driver (27th) to receive a prize bonus for $150 ($ in today's money). The drivers who finished 29th and 30th (last place) would not receive any prize money. Total winnings for this race would be $11,610 ($ in today's money).

Finishing order

1. Richard Petty
2. Dick Hutcherson
3. Paul Goldsmith
4. Sam McQuagg*
5. James Hylton
6. Wendell Scott
7. Worth McMillion
8. E.J. Trivette
9. Henley Gray
10. George Davis
11. George Poulous
12. Elmo Langley
    Elmo Langley
    Elmo Langley was a NASCAR driver and owner. Langley primarily used the number "64" on his race cars during his NASCAR career.-Racing career:...
    
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13. Bill Seifert
    Bill Seifert
    Bill Seifert is a retired NASCAR Sprint Cup Series who raced from 1966 to 1979.-Summary:Seifert raced 41,875 laps for . His grand total for race winnings is $147,831 USD . Seifert's average career start is 21st and his average career finish is 19th...
    
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14. Wayne Smith*
15. Johnny Steele
    Johnny Steele
    John "Johnny" Steele was a Scottish former footballer and manager.Steele signed for Barnsley from Ayr United for £2,500 in June 1938. He died of a stroke on January 14, 2008, at the age of 91.-Managerial stats:...
    
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16. Earl Brooks
17. Melvin Bradley*
18. J.T. Putney
    J.T. Putney
    J.T. Putney ) was a former NASCAR Grand National Series race car driver who would accomplish 16 finishes in the "top five" in addition to 49 finishes in the "top ten." Herman Beam would become one of Putney's employers; guiding him to a seventh-place finish at the end of the 1965 NASCAR Grand...
    
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19. Bobby Allison
    Bobby Allison
    Robert Arthur Allison is a former NASCAR Winston Cup driver and was named one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers. His two sons, Clifford Allison and Davey Allison followed him into racing, and both died within a year of each other....
    
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20. John Sears*
21. Ray Hendrick
    Ray Hendrick
    Ray Hendrick , was known as "Mr. Modified" during his 36-year career in motorsports mainly in the modified stock car racing class....
    
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22. Bill Ervin
    Bill Ervin
    Bill Ervin is a retired NASCAR Grand National Series driver from the American community of Tellico Plains, Tennessee....
    
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23. Jabe Thomas
    Jabe Thomas
    Cerry Ezra "Jabe" Thomas is a retired NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series driver who competed from the mid 1960s through the late 1970s. His son Ronnie was also a NASCAR Cup Series driver; competing from 1977 to 1989.-Career:Thomas drove 75243 laps of racing and earned $295,497 in total...
    
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24. Paul Dean Holt
    Paul Dean Holt
    Paul Dean Holt is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup driver and a competitor at the 1968 Fireball 300....
    
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25. Doug Cooper*
26. Frog Fagan
    Frog Fagan
    Harold "Frog" Fagan was a NASCAR Winston Cup driver from the Toronto subdivision of Willowdale, Ontario, Canada.-History:...
    
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27. Don Biederman
    Don Biederman
    Don Biederman was a Canadian stock car racer from Port Credit, Ontario.Since his passing, Biederman has been inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame. He even has a memorial race held in his honor annually called "The Don Beiderman Memorial." This race is operated under the OSCAAR...
    
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28. Neil Castles
    Neil Castles
    Neil "Soapy" Castles is a retired NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series driver that participate from 1957 to 1976.-History:...
    
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29. Tom Raley*
30. Clyde Lynn
    Clyde Lynn
    Clyde Lynn was a NASCAR Winston Cup driver from Christiansburg, Virginia and a runner-up for the NASCAR Rookie of the Year award in the year 1965...
    
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* Driver failed to finish race