Dodge Charger Stock Car Fast Facts
TORONTO, Oct. 4 /CNW/ -

Dodge Charger in NASCAR: 1966-1977

Total Dodge Charger Wins: 124 (six earned in winged Charger Daytonas)

Most Charger Wins by a Driver:
- Richard Petty - 37
- Bobby Isaac - 36
- David Pearson - 17

First Dodge Charger NASCAR Win: Earl Balmer, Feb. 25, 1966, Daytona Int'l Speedway, (40 laps/100 miles/2.5-mile track) - Balmer led one lap en route to winning the 100-mile qualifying race in a No. 3 Dodge Charger owned by Ray Fox.

Last Dodge Charger NASCAR Win: Neil Bonnett, Nov. 20, 1977, Ontario Motor Speedway (200 laps/500 miles/2.5-mile track) - Bonnett drove a No. 5 Dodge bought by Jim Stacy FROM Nord Krauskopf of K&K Insurance to victory in the season-ending Los Angeles Times 500, leading eight times for 96 laps in his first superspeedway win. Bonnett passed Richard Petty with five laps to go and blocked his last-lap maneuver to win by two car lengths.

Drivers Who Won in a Dodge Charger:
- Earl Balmer - (1966)
- David Pearson - (1966-67)
- Sam McQuagg - (1966)
- LeeRoy Yarbrough - (1966-67)
- Bobby Allison - (1967, 1969-71)
- Buddy Baker - (1967-68, 1970-73)
- Bobby Isaac - (1968-1972)
- Charlie Glotzbach - (1968, 1970)
- Richard Brickhouse - (1969)
- Ray Elder - (1971-72)
- Richard Petty - (1973-77)
- Dave Marcis - (1975-76)
- Neil Bonnett - (1977)

NASCAR Drivers Who Drove a Charger During a Championship Season:
- David Pearson (1966)
- Bobby Isaac (1970)
- Richard Petty (1972, 1974, 1975)

WINGED WARS: Sept. 14, 1969 - Richard Brickhouse's No. 99 Nichels Engineering Dodge Charger Daytona (originally to be driven by Charlie Glotzbach) is the first "winged" stock car to win a NASCAR race. Brickhouse earns his first and only career victory amid a Professional Drivers Association boycotted Talladega 500 - the inaugural race at Alabama Int'l Motor Speedway.

200.447 MPH: March 24, 1970 - Buddy Baker becomes auto racing's first driver officially timed completing a closed-course lap at more than 200 miles per hour. Baker piloted his Cotton Owens owned No. 88 Dodge Charger Daytona to a top lap speed of 200.447 mph at Talladega Superspeedway.

For further information: Contact: Sophia Di Nardo, (519) 973-2312; Dan Bodene (248) 512-2920

Windsor, Ontario - October 4, 2004 - - The Dodge Charger returns to Dodge showrooms and NASCAR race tracks around the country in 2005. Stay tuned…