The NASCAR Cup Series has raced at over 50 tracks in its 50+ year history, many tracks NASCAR went to once and never returned. One of those ‘one and done’ tracks is Wall Stadium which located in New Jersey it played part in a single race on July 26th, 1958 hosting the Grand National Series, now known as the Cup Series. The race was a 300 lap 99 mile event that featured a field of 19 cars driven by the likes of Richard and Lee Petty, Buzz Woodward and Buck Baker. The 300 laps flew by as only five of those laps were under yellow, with that said the field got spread out for a long period of time and by race's end there were only 4 cars on the lead lap with only 14 finishing the race out of the 19 that took the green. The race was won by Jim Reed who started second in the field and dominated by leading all 300 laps, despite the clinic he put on Reed only won by a car length over Rex White. This was just one out of seven wins Reed would get in his 13-year 106-race career; he got $800 ($2,885 today) for winning the race. Reed was in a Chevrolet as the manufacturer went 1-2-3 with Rex White finishing p2 and Buck Baker p3.
The driver who finished in last place was Ben Benz who only completed 43 laps as he dealt with clutch problems, he got $50 ($480 today) for the finish, that was just one Benz’s nine races in his very short career. Ever since that race we never saw any of the top three series in NASCAR return, but NASCAR’s Whelen Modified Tour did do several races at the track with the most recent in 2019. Woody Pitkat won the last Whelen Modified Tour race there, besting a 28 car field to get his first in since 2015. The 2019 Wall Stadium race win is the last win of Pitkat’s
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