This color educational film is about the Riverside 500 stock car race in Riverside, California. This was made in 1964.

Opening: Riverside, CA race track. Cars drive by very fast. The cars drive by a corner. Racer Dan Gurney takes off his helmet. A car is tipped back onto its right side as a tow truck leaves. A man tightens a bolt on a guardrail. A man fixes a guardrail as people walk by. A driver observes a damaged car. A car races down the track, as they hit a turn the car hits a rail and swerves, other cars make the turn. Car after car spin out, finally a car spins, hits the sides and topples over (:07-2:09). Credits: Grant Piston Ring Company ‘The Riverside 500′ (2:10-2:42). A policeman opens a gate and a pickup truck carrying a trailer brings in the racing car. Cars prepare for the race. A tow truck. NASCAR officials check every car for the proper safety precautions. A clipboard with papers and a pen. A car drives out onto the track. Speeds build as cars race by. A man with a camera films it (2:43-4:17). Cars spin out on the track and take sharp corners. Cars drive by as a man waves a checkered flag. POV out of a windshield as the car takes a turn. Saturday is the consolation race, cars race on the track. Cars speed by, take corners, spin out. A man points at a car that goes off the track. Daytona 500 consolation race – a huge crash and pile up. Billy Wade of Houston, TX wins the consolation race (4:18-7:20). A mechanic works on a car at night. A man dials a phone. A supplier answers the phone. A piston is put together by the supplier. The man oils and lubricates the ring band. A band is placed onto the piston and closed. All of the pistons are wrapped to keep out dust. Another man takes the finished pistons and gets into his pick up truck. He drives to another building and drops off the pistons. The man there puts them into an engine (7:21-10:32). The finished engine is driven away. People are ready on race day. Cars wait on the track for the starting flag. Drivers buckle themselves in. A driver straps his helmet on. Balloons are launched into the air and the race begins. Cars drive by. The cars are on the track. The course is on a hillside with tricky S curves. The flag is waved and the race is in high gear. Turn 4, there are already problems as cars spin out. Car round a turn (10:33-14:49). Cars drive fast towards turn 9. Officials watch. People watch with pads. Cars race by. As the race goes on, a car spins out on Turn 6. Spectators watch. Cars race up a hill. A car slides off the course (14:50-17:53). Cars spin out and others keep going. Cars race on. A woman uses binoculars. A car wipes out on a corner. It is towed away. A pit stop for Parnelli Jones. Pit crew switches wheels and fix up the car. Race continues, Dan Gurney is in the lead. A racer, who’s car crashed, packs up. Parnelli Jones is out. A car flips and flips and crashes. A wheel on the ground, a wrecked car overturned (17:54-22:04). A pit stop for another car with smoke coming out of the engine. Fireball Roberts is in the lead. Dan Gurney is right behind him. Roberts’ car is serviced in the pit stop. His crew works as the smoke comes from under the hood. A car goes over the rail on turn 9. The car is on its proper side and isn’t heavily damaged (22:05-23:54). Cars slow down for the caution flags. Pace car passes by in the penalty lap. Cars continue on. A car spins out. Another car spins out into the wood railing. Parnelli Jones watches as he’s out of the race. A car spins out into the dirt. A car straightens out. People watch. A car end sup on top of hay bales (23:55-26:29). A car is in a pit stop. The race nears the end. Dan Gurney wins the race in his Ford (26:30-28:04). End credits (28:05-28:20).

The Winston Western 500 was an annual NASCAR Winston Cup race held at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California, United States, in January, and then in later years, November. From 1963 to 1981, the race was held in January and was the season opening race. NASCAR elected to start its season with the Daytona 500 beginning in 1982, so a second Winston Western 500 was run in November to accommodate the change; the change resulted in Riverside hosting three Winston Cup races in 1981. The race ran in November from 1981 to 1987, serving as the Winston Cup Series’ final race of the year from 1981 to 1986. The race distance was 500 miles until 1977 when it was shortened to 311 miles (500 kilometers). The other race held at Riverside, the Budweiser 400, was held in June.

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