| Race details[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 50 of 51 in the 1958 NASCAR Grand National Series season | |||
 North Wilkesboro Speedway | |||
| Date | October 19, 1958 | ||
| Official name | Wilkes 160 | ||
| Location | North Wilkesboro Speedway, North Wilkesboro, North Carolina | ||
| Course |
Permanent racing facility 0.625 mi (1.00 km) | ||
| Distance | 160 laps, 100 mi (160 km) | ||
| Weather | Chilly with temperatures of 64 °F (18 °C); wind speeds of 24.1 miles per hour (38.8 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 84.906 miles per hour (136.643 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Wood Brothers Racing | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | unknown | unknown | |
| Laps | unknown | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 11 | Junior Johnson | Paul Spalding | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | untelevised | ||
| Announcers | none | ||
The 1958 Wilkes 160 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on October 19, 1958, at North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
The race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.
- ^ "1958 Wilkes 160 weather information". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2014-05-17.