The National 400 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event held on October 18, 1964, at the 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. The race consisted of 267 laps for a total distance of 400 miles.
A field of 44 cars took the green flag before the fans at the high-banked superspeedway. Fred Lorenzen drove his #28 Holman-Moody 1964 Ford to victory, starting from the third position and leading just 7 laps. He took the win under caution after the race leader, Richard Petty (who started on the pole and led a race-high 188 laps), suffered a right-front tire blowout on lap 265 and slammed into the guardrail. Jim Paschal finished second in the #41 Petty Enterprises Plymouth (leading 1 lap), followed by Richard Petty in third, Ned Jarrett in fourth, and LeeRoy Yarbrough in fifth.
The event delivered intense late-race drama between the top Ford and Plymouth teams and highlighted the high-speed challenges of the quad-oval track. It remains a memorable mid-1960s NASCAR superspeedway race from the sport’s early era.
