Anyone know if they ran the road course or the oval for the first IROC season?
The wiki entry says "This was the only IROC to be contested entirely on road courses" but it looks like the later seasons ran the oval. 911's on the oval would be pretty strange.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IROC_I
The first season was a bit weird (other than the 911's) in that they ran at Riverside for 3 races, then a forth race at Daytona, but only 6 drivers showed for that, and it appeared to be un-televised or recorded.
The only pic I can find:
Depending on when the IROC race was...
Daytona used to have a Paul Revere 250 on the July 4th weekend. It was a sports car race on the road course. I could see how it would fit in with IROC and NASCAR if they were all there at the same time.
Found this marked as the first IROC race but didn't mention if road course or not
Also you had the year wrong 1974 was the first IROC,
"The finale was held on the Daytona road course in February with only six-drivers — early IROC rules called for the field to be cut in half entering the final round. The backdrop and the smaller field were the only things that changed from the early rounds in California. Follmer would chase Donohue for the race win and the title until spinning his Porsche. That left the New Jersey-native to take the race win and the inaugural IROC title, accumulating $54,000 in prize money. The championship standings were based on prize money earned in the four races. That led to Formula One star Peter Revson finishing second with $21,200 in earnings, Indy car legend Bobby Unser would take third-place ($19,100) with NASCAR’s second in all-time wins David Pearson banking $14,600 for fourth-place. Despite contending for every win and pushing Donohue to the title, Follmer had amassed only $16,000 good for fifth-place just ahead of soon-to-be four-time Indianapolis 500 winner A.J. Foyt"
Could have bought the winner a few years ago
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/sponsored-content/mark-donohues-daytona-winning-iroc-porsche-rsr-emerges-sale
Well, the 500 was on the 20th that year, so it would have happened in between the 24hr and the 500..
Well, the 1974 500 was the 17th. There was no 24hr that year due to the fuel shortage.
