NASCAR Convertible Series 1957 standings

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NASCAR Convertible Series 1957 standings

Championship points standings for the NASCAR Convertible Series 1957

Position	Driver	Team	Car	Points
1.	Bob Welborn	Hugh Babb	'57 Chevrolet	9364
2.	Joseph Weatherly	Pete DePaolo	'57 Ford '56 Ford	9112
3.	Glen Wood	Wood Brothers Racing	'56 Ford '57 Ford	7950
4.	Larry Frank	Lonnie Fish	'56 Chevrolet	7608
5.	Lewis V Jones	Hugh Babb	'57 Chevrolet	7522
6.	Curtis Turner	Pete DePaolo	'57 Ford '56 Ford	6130
7.	Gwyn Staley	Hubert Westmoreland	'57 Plymouth '57 Chevrolet	5056
8.	Ken Rush	Frank Hayworth	Ford	4446
9.	Jimmy Massey	Hubert Westmoreland	'57 Plymouth	4256
10.	Roger Baldwin	Roger Baldwin	'56 Ford	4070
11.	Whitey Norman	Whitey Norman	'56 Ford	3800
12.	Don Gray	Lonnie Fish	'56 Chevrolet	3496
13.	Lee Arnold Petty	Petty Engineering	'57 Oldsmobile	3490
14.	Bill Poor	Bill Poor	'56 Chevrolet	3408
15.	Shep Langdon	Lonnie Fish	'56 Chevrolet	3064
16.	Ted Chamberlain	Ted Chamberlain	'56 Plymouth	2980
17.	Neil Castles	Neil Castles	'56 Ford	2932
18.	Dick Beaty	Dick Beaty	'57 Ford '56 Ford	2758
19.	Dave Terrell	Dave Terrell	'57 Chevrolet	2708
20.	Billy Myers	Bill Stroppe	'57 Mercury '57 Oldsmobile	2126
21.	Art Binkley	Art Binkley	'56 Plymouth	2072
22.	Darel Dieringer	John Whitford	'57 Ford	1992
23.	Paul Goldsmith	Hugh Babb, Slim Rominger	'57 Chevrolet '57 Ford	1976
24.	Johnny Dodson	Petty Engineering	'57 Oldsmobile	1886
25.	Don Oldenberg	Bob Osiecki	'57 Plymouth	1822
26.	Bobby Myers	Bill Stroppe, Whitey Norman	'56 Mercury '56 Chevrolet '56 Ford	1810
27.	Al Tasnady	Al Tasnady	'57 Plymouth	1794
28.	Fireball Roberts	Pete DePaolo	'57 Ford	1598
29.	Emanuel Zervakis	Junie Donlavey	Chevrolet	1556
30.	Billy Rafter	C.M. Julian	'56 Dodge	1224
31.	Tim Flock	Bill Stroppe	'57 Mercury	1220
32.	Marvin Panch	Pete DePaolo	'57 Ford	1040
33.	Jack Smith	Hugh Babb	'57 Chevrolet	976
34.	Bill Champion	Bill Champion	Ford	952
35.	Ewell Weddle		'56 Chevrolet	800
36.	George Bumgardner	Lyle Sokoll	'57 Ford	784
37.	Jimmy Thompson		'56 Ford	758
38.	Charlie Cregar	Charlie Cregar	'57 Plymouth	724
39.	Bill Lutz	Petty Engineering	1957 Buick 1957 Oldsmobile Ford	700
40.	Pee Wee Jones		Ford	680
41.	Buck Baker Sr	Buck Baker	1957 Chevrolet	676
42.	James Jones	James Jones	Chevrolet 1956 Ford	660
43.	Dick Walters		1956 Ford	652
44.	Ray Hendrick			536
45.	Bill Taylor		1956 Ford	528
46.	Robert W Beck	Bob Beck	1956 Chevrolet	520
47.	Tom Pistone	Tom Pistone	1955 Chevrolet 1957 Plymouth	508
48.	Eddie Hughes		1956 Ford	496
	Bill Amick	Roger Baldwin, Pete DePaolo	'56 Ford '57 Ford	0
	Ray Atkinson	Ray Atkinson	'56 Ford	0
	E J Brewer			0
	Mason Bright		Chevrolet	0
	Bill Brown		'56 Buick	0
	Cannonball Brown	Cannonball Brown	'55 Chrysler '56 Chrysler	0
	Tony Calvo	Mel Larson	'56 Ford	0
	Raymond Carter		'56 Chevrolet	0
	Robert E Clutterham			0
	Clarence DeZalia			0
	John Dodd, Sr.	John Dodd, Sr.	'56 Ford	0
	Ralph Lee Earnhardt	Petty Engineering	'57 Oldsmobile	0
	Shorty Edwards		'56 Ford	0
	Bun Emery		'56 Ford	0
	Joe Eubanks	Satcher Motors	'56 Ford	0
	William J Gerken		'56 Dodge	0
	Ed Goodwin	Lonnie Fish	'56 Ford '56 Chevrolet	0
	Chuck Hancock		'56 Ford	0
	Fred Harb			0
	Dave Hirschfield		'57 Pontiac	0
	Dick Joslin	Bill Webb	'56 Dodge	0
	Brownie King			0
	Mel Larson	Mel Larson	'56 Ford	0
	Jack Lawrence		'56 Chevrolet	0
	George Lay		'56 Chevrolet	0
	Jimmie Lewallen	Bob Welborn	'56 Chevrolet	0
	DeWayne Louis Lund		Pontiac	0
	Bill Martin		Ford	0
	Banjo Matthews	Wood Brothers	'56 Ford	0
	Phil McGraw		'56 Ford	0
	Bill Morgan			0
	Bill Morton			0
	Lester Murphy		Ford	0
	Roy Murphy		Ford	0
	Homer Newland			0
	Harold Otto			0
	Lennie Page		'56 Ford	0
	Jim Paschal			0
	Julian Petty			0
	Bob Pronger		'57 Buick	0
	Ansel Rakestraw		Chevrolet	0
	Jim Reed	Pete DePaolo	'57 Ford	0
	Jim Russell	Jim Russell	Ford	0
	Norman Schihl	Norman Schihl	'56 Ford	0
	Don Schisler		'57 Ford	0
	Frankie Schneider	Al Tasnady	'57 Plymouth	0
	Dudley Stacy		'57 Chevrolet	0
	Pete Stewart			0
	Wesley Allen Swenson		'56 Plymouth	0
	Clyde Swick			0
	Sherman Utsman			0
	Bill Vesler	William Meyer	'56 Ford	0
	Sonny Walters		'56 Chevrolet	0
	Fred Wilson		'56 Ford	0
	K. Winkler			0
	Shorty York			0

	Driver	Number
Most race wins	Curtis Turner	12
Most pole positions	Bob Welborn	10
Most podium positions	Bob Welborn	14
Most podium positions without a win	Lee Arnold Petty	5

Nationality of participating drivers

%	Country		Drivers	Number
99%	U.S.A.		Bill Vesler, Bob Welborn, Joseph Weatherly, Glen Wood, Larry Frank, Lewis V Jones, Curtis Turner, Gwyn Staley, Ken Rush, Jimmy Massey, Roger Baldwin, Whitey Norman, Don Gray, Lee Arnold Petty, Bill Poor, Shep Langdon, Ted Chamberlain, Neil Castles, Dick Beaty, Dave Terrell, Billy Myers, Art Binkley, Darel Dieringer, Paul Goldsmith, Johnny Dodson, Don Oldenberg, Bobby Myers, Al Tasnady, Fireball Roberts, Emanuel Zervakis, Billy Rafter, Tim Flock, Marvin Panch, Jack Smith, Bill Champion, Ewell Weddle, Bun Emery, Robert W Beck, Joe Eubanks, Jimmie Lewallen, Tom Pistone, Cannonball Brown, Bill Lutz, William J Gerken, Mel Larson, Tony Calvo, Bob Pronger, Dick Joslin, Don Schisler, Ray Atkinson, George Bumgardner, James Jones, Bill Amick, Raymond Carter, Eddie Hughes, Charlie Cregar, Jim Reed, John Dodd, Sr., Ralph Lee Earnhardt, Ed Goodwin, Jimmy Thompson, Buck Baker Sr, Homer Newland, Sonny Walters, Lennie Page, Phil McGraw, Dick Walters, Banjo Matthews, Fred Wilson, Frankie Schneider, Shorty Edwards, Mason Bright, Dave Hirschfield, Wesley Allen Swenson, George Lay, Robert E Clutterham, Bill Brown, K. Winkler, Jack Lawrence, Harold Otto, Clyde Swick, Dudley Stacy, Chuck Hancock, Clarence DeZalia, Bill Taylor, Pee Wee Jones, Ray Hendrick, Jim Paschal, DeWayne Louis Lund, Lester Murphy, E J Brewer, Ansel Rakestraw, Pete Stewart, Jim Russell, Shorty York, Bill Martin, Bill Morton, Bill Morgan, Julian Petty, Fred Harb, Roy Murphy, Sherman Utsman, Brownie King	103
1%	Canada		Norman Schihl	1

Individual driver statistics for the 1957 NASCAR Convertible Series

Driver	Age	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	Fastest laps
Amick, Bill	31 y/o	7	3	3	4
Atkinson, Ray	31 y/o	1	0	0	0
Baker Sr, Buck	38 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Baldwin, Roger	n/a	23	0	0		0
Beaty, Dick	32 y/o	15	0	1	0	0
Beck, Robert W	50 y/o	5	0	0	0	0
Binkley, Art	36 y/o	5	0
Brewer, E J	28 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Bright, Mason	28 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Brown, Bill	n/a	1	0	0	0	0
Brown, Cannonball	34 y/o	6	0	0	0	0
Bumgardner, George	n/a	7	0	0	0	0
Calvo, Tony	n/a	2	0	0	0
Carter, Raymond	30 y/o	2	0	0	0
Castles, Neil	22 y/o	24	0	0	0	0
Chamberlain, Ted	51 y/o	16	0			0
Champion, Bill	35 y/o	2	0	0	0
Clutterham, Robert E	34 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Cregar, Charlie	26 y/o	8	0	0	0	0
DeZalia, Clarence	37 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Dieringer, Darel	31 y/o	13	0	0	1	0
Dodd, Sr., John	44 y/o	1	0	0	0
Dodson, Johnny	26 y/o	7	0	0	0	0
Earnhardt, Ralph Lee	29 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Edwards, Shorty	n/a	0	0	0	0	0
Emery, Bun	29 y/o	1	0	0	0
Eubanks, Joe	31 y/o	1	0	0	0
Flock, Tim	33 y/o	2	1	2	1
Frank, Larry	28 y/o	36	0	1		0
Gerken, William J	27 y/o	1	0	0	0
Goldsmith, Paul	31 y/o	6	0
Goodwin, Ed	n/a	3	0	0	0	0
Gray, Don	27 y/o	21	0			0
Hancock, Chuck	n/a	1	0	0	0	0
Harb, Fred	27 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Hendrick, Ray	28 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Hirschfield, Dave	26 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Hughes, Eddie	n/a	7	0	0	0	0
Jones, James	28 y/o	10	0	0	0	0
Jones, Lewis V	23 y/o	35	2	0		0
Jones, Pee Wee	29 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Joslin, Dick	30 y/o	1	0	0	0
King, Brownie	23 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Langdon, Shep	23 y/o	26	0			0
Larson, Mel	27 y/o	1	0	0	0
Lawrence, Jack	15 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Lay, George	n/a	1	0	0	0	0
Lewallen, Jimmie	37 y/o	1	0	0	0
Lund, DeWayne Louis	27 y/o	3	0	1	0
Lutz, Bill	28 y/o	6	0	0	0	0
Martin, Bill	n/a	1	0	0	0	0
Massey, Jimmy	28 y/o	22	0			0
Matthews, Banjo	25 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
McGraw, Phil	n/a	1	0	0	0
Morgan, Bill	n/a	1	0	0	0	0
Morton, Bill	18 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Murphy, Lester	34 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Murphy, Roy	n/a	1	0	0	0	0
Myers, Billy	32 y/o	11	1	0		0
Myers, Bobby	30 y/o	8	0	2	0	0
Newland, Homer	27 y/o	1	0	0	0
Norman, Whitey	31 y/o	26	0	0	1	0
Oldenberg, Don	34 y/o	12	0			0
Otto, Harold	n/a	1	0	0	0	0
Page, Lennie	n/a	3	0	0	0	0
Panch, Marvin	31 y/o	5	0	0	0
Paschal, Jim	30 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Petty, Julian	41 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Petty, Lee Arnold	43 y/o	17	0	5	0	0
Pistone, Tom	28 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Poor, Bill	46 y/o	28	0	0	0	0
Pronger, Bob	35 y/o	1	0	0	0
Rafter, Billy	27 y/o	6	0	0	0	0
Rakestraw, Ansel	29 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Reed, Jim	31 y/o	1	0	0	0
Roberts, Fireball	28 y/o	5	1
Rush, Ken	25 y/o	21	0	1	1
Russell, Jim	n/a	2	0	0	0	0
Schihl, Norman	31 y/o	1	0	0	0
Schisler, Don	23 y/o	1	0	0	0
Schneider, Frankie	30 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Smith, Jack	33 y/o	6	0	2	0
Stacy, Dudley	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Staley, Gwyn	29 y/o	22	1		0	0
Stewart, Pete	25 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Swenson, Wesley Allen	42 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Swick, Clyde	31 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Tasnady, Al	27 y/o	16	0	0	0	0
Taylor, Bill	n/a	1	0	0	0	0
Terrell, Dave	26 y/o	17	0			0
Thompson, Jimmy	33 y/o	6	0	0	0	0
Turner, Curtis	33 y/o	29	12	2	0	0
Utsman, Sherman	25 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Vesler, Bill	n/a	2	0	0	0
Walters, Dick	23 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Walters, Sonny	n/a	3	0	0	0	0
Weatherly, Joseph	35 y/o	37	5	2	0	0
Weddle, Ewell	41 y/o	8	0	0	0	0
Welborn, Bob	29 y/o	37	7	14	10	0
Wilson, Fred	28 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Winkler, K.	n/a	1	0	0	0	0
Wood, Glen	31 y/o	37	4	1		0
York, Shorty	33 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Zervakis, Emanuel	27 y/o	2	0	0	0

#	Date	Circuit	Winner	Second	Third	Pole
1	1956-11-11	Jacksonville, NC	Weatherly	Wood	Massey	Weatherly
2	1957-02-16	Daytona Beach, FL	Flock	Weatherly	Myers	Flock
3	1957-03-10	Fayetteville, NC	Wood	Weatherly	Petty	Welborn
4	1957-03-17	Greensboro, NC	Turner	Weatherly	Jones	Turner
5	1957-03-24	Manassas, VA	Weatherly	Wood	Turner	Jones
6	1957-03-31	Hillsboro, NC	Weatherly	Wood	Staley	Turner
7	1957-04-07	Richmond, VA	Wood	Turner	Myers	Jones
8	1957-04-13	Greenville, S.C.	Turner	Jones	Weatherly	Jones
9	1957-04-14	Wilson, NC	Weatherly	Staley	Wood	Weatherly
10	1957-04-20	Hickory, NC	Turner	Weatherly	Smith	Welborn
11	1957-04-22	Winston-Salem, NC	Turner	Myers	Frank	Turner
12	1957-04-28	Norfolk, VA	Turner	Weatherly	Baldwin	Welborn
13	1957-05-05	Langhorne, PA	Turner	Weatherly	Jones	Turner
14	1957-05-12	Darlington	Roberts	Flock	Myers	Goldsmith
15	1957-05-17	Charlotte	Turner	Petty	Welborn	Wood
16	1957-05-18	Asheville, NC	Turner	Weatherly	Wood	Turner
17	1957-05-25	Spartanburg, SC	Turner	Welborn	Wood
18	1957-05-30	Syracuse, NY	Jones	Turner	Welborn	Jones
19	1957-05-31	Old Bridge, NJ	Welborn	Jones	Turner	Welborn
20	1957-06-02	Weaverville, NC	Welborn	Wood	Jones	Welborn
21	1957-06-07	Atlanta, GA	Welborn	Smith	Jones	Welborn
22	1957-06-14	Rochester, NY	Welborn	Wood	Frank	Weatherly
23	1957-06-22	Winston-Salem, NC	Welborn	Petty	Weatherly	Staley
24	1957-06-23	Concord, NC	Turner	Welborn	Weatherly	Weatherly
25	1957-06-26	Municipal Stadium	Welborn	Weatherly	Wood	Welborn
26	1957-06-29	Chicago, IL	Wood	Jones	Frank