After that, Mantz led to the finish. Mantz had taken advantage of an offer from Firestone to test a tire designed for asphalt stock car racing. While some cars used over 60 tires to go the remainder of the race, Mantz kept increasing his lead, winning by over nine laps. The total time of the race was six hours, thirty-eight minutes, and forty seconds. The average speed was while the pole position speed was . Two cautions lasted thirteen laps. Four hundred laps were done spanning . Most of the known DNFs in the race were caused by crashes, the worst of which saw drivers Tex Keene, Curtis Turner, and Jack Smith all rolling their cars over the course of the race. Notable crew chiefs were Bud Moore, Buddy Elliott, Julian Buesink and Rod McLean. Their drivers were Joe Eubanks, Tim Flock, Bill Rexford, George Hartley, Jim Paschal and Buck Baker. Section reference:   "* Driver is known to have failed to finish the race  ^ Indicates the driver definitely finished the race  The presence of neither * nor ^ indicates that the driver's finishing status is not known." Section reference: