NASCAR Cup Series
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Memorial services set for NASCAR pioneer Parks
Published
Jun. 21, 2010 2:51 p.m. ET
foxsports
Memorial services have been set for NASCAR pioneer Raymond Parks, who died Sunday morning at his home in Atlanta at age 96.
NASCAR says a viewing for Parks will be held Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. at HM Patterson Funeral Parlor in Atlanta. A memorial service is planned for Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Peachtree Christian Church.
Parks was the last living member of the group of men who created NASCAR in 1947 during a meeting at a hotel in Daytona Beach, Fla. He fielded the car that Red Byron drove to the inaugural Cup Series championship in 1949, NASCAR's first season of competition.
His teams ran four seasons in the Cup Series - 1949, 1950, 1954 and 1955. It had two wins and 11 top-five finishes in 18 events.
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