Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The 1980 Firecracker 400 was a NASCAR-sanctioned race where one hundred and sixty laps of stock car racing would result in a final win for Mercury in the Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) before the manufacturer was "legislated out of NASCAR" due to rule changes reducing the wheelbase of the tires from 110 inches (9.2 ft) to 105 inches (8.8 ft).Bobby Allison would be the final driver to win for the Mercury brand name for the Ford Motor Company; he would beat David Pearson by six car lengths. Other notable competitors included Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty, Richard Childress and Bill Elliott. The event took place at Daytona International Speedway on July 4, 1980. Many sponsors like Burger King, NAPA and Pepsi are still sponsoring today's stock car vehicles. Out of forty participants, eleven competitors failed to finish the race. Cale Yarborough would be credited for finishing last place with an overheated engine. The race took two hours, eighteen minutes, and eleven seconds to complete. All drivers were born in the United States of America with no foreign drivers like Juan Pablo Montoya and Marcos Ambrose in the grid.Safety regulations made within the 1980s and 1990s would slow down the speed of vehicles in both the Firecracker 400 and the Daytona 500. The average speed for this race was 173.473 miles per hour (279.178 km/h) while the pole position speed was 194.670 miles per hour (313.291 km/h). Three cautions were given out for eleven laps. Fifty-four thousand people attended this live event from the start of the race to the finish. Out of the forty drivers in the grid, ten of them would fail to finish the race due to car problems.. }
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- 1980_Firecracker_400 abstract "The 1980 Firecracker 400 was a NASCAR-sanctioned race where one hundred and sixty laps of stock car racing would result in a final win for Mercury in the Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) before the manufacturer was "legislated out of NASCAR" due to rule changes reducing the wheelbase of the tires from 110 inches (9.2 ft) to 105 inches (8.8 ft).Bobby Allison would be the final driver to win for the Mercury brand name for the Ford Motor Company; he would beat David Pearson by six car lengths. Other notable competitors included Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty, Richard Childress and Bill Elliott. The event took place at Daytona International Speedway on July 4, 1980. Many sponsors like Burger King, NAPA and Pepsi are still sponsoring today's stock car vehicles. Out of forty participants, eleven competitors failed to finish the race. Cale Yarborough would be credited for finishing last place with an overheated engine. The race took two hours, eighteen minutes, and eleven seconds to complete. All drivers were born in the United States of America with no foreign drivers like Juan Pablo Montoya and Marcos Ambrose in the grid.Safety regulations made within the 1980s and 1990s would slow down the speed of vehicles in both the Firecracker 400 and the Daytona 500. The average speed for this race was 173.473 miles per hour (279.178 km/h) while the pole position speed was 194.670 miles per hour (313.291 km/h). Three cautions were given out for eleven laps. Fifty-four thousand people attended this live event from the start of the race to the finish. Out of the forty drivers in the grid, ten of them would fail to finish the race due to car problems.".