[h=1]Fireball Roberts nabbed Ford’s first win at Bristol[/h] Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 2:22 by GODWIN KELLY
Ford won it’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 31, 1963 when Fireball Roberts, who lived in Daytona Beach, won the Southeastern 500. What made the win so noteworthy is that it marked the debut of Roberts with Ford as a teammate of Fred Lorenzen’s at Holman-Moody.
Fireball Roberts

The duo put on a dominating show that day as they combined to lead 329 of 500 laps with Roberts leading 165 and Lorenzen 164. Roberts passed his new teammate with eight laps to go and won by five seconds as the race saw only one caution for nine laps. Roberts went on to win four races in 1963 while Lorenzen won six times.