The first race of the 1950 season was run on February 5 at the Daytona Beach road course in Daytona Beach, Florida. Joe Littlejohn won the pole.
The 1950 running of the Daytona beach and road course moved to the more traditional month of February, becoming the inaugural race of the season for the first time. The “Strictly Stock” name had given way to the “Grand National” division, a name that stuck until 1971. Harold Kite, in his first NASCAR start used his experience as a military tank driver to pilot his huge ’49 Lincoln over the tough and rutted beach sections of the course. Defending champion Red Byron took the lead on lap 15, but his pit stop and a second stop for a jammed gear shifting linkage dropped him from the lead, allowing Kite to take the point again. While Kite led unmolested to cruise to a 53-second lead, Byron thrilled the spectators with a wide open sprint to overtake second place Lloyd Moore, capping off the comeback with a last lap pass to take the second position. Attendance was up to 9,500 people though the winner’s purse was down to $1,500…well, some things always seem to stay the same.

I am Lloyd Moore’s contact for the world. Go Here to read a NASCAR.com story on LLOYD MOORE, NASCAR’s OLDEST LIVING DRIVER AT 95.

FREWSBURG NY – He still lives in the same 1890s-built house his father and grandfather grew up in, and died in. He still cuts his own grass, about two to three acres around the property he grew his roots on. He still attends the same church he has gone to since day one, about a mile over the closest hill. He’s still married to his lovely bride Virginia, 60 years and counting. He is not only the oldest, living NASCAR winner, he is also the oldest, living ARCA winner, and he was 95 on June 8th.

His name is Lloyd Moore, and he’s alive and well living just outside of Frewsburg, New York. And he is remarkably sharp in mind and body.
Lloyd is my friend and I am your contact for NASCAR’s Oldest Living Driver.

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