• Ford wins 32 consecutive Grand National races from Feb. 12 through July 25 to establish an all-time record for manufacturers in major league stock car racing.

• Firestone Tire & Rubber Company introduces the fuel cell, which becomes mandatory on all Grand National race cars.

• Ned Jarrett wins a 100-mile Grand National race at Shelby, N.C., on May 27 by 22 laps over runner-up "Little Bud" Moore. The margin of victory is the greatest in terms of laps in the history of Grand National racing.

• The Joe Weatherly Stock Car Racing Museum opens at the Darlington International Raceway.

• Ned Jarrett captures the Southern 500 at Darlington International Raceway by 19.25 miles (14 laps), the greatest margin of victory in terms of miles in Grand National history. Darlington was then measured at 1.375-miles.

• NASCAR begins sanctioning organized drag racing with the new NASCAR Drag Racing Division. The Daytona Beach, Fla., sanctioning body governs several different classes.

• North Carolina Motor Speedway opens in October with the American 500. Curtis Turner wins the event in a Wood Brothers Ford.

• Ned Jarrett wins 13 races en route to the 1965 Grand National championship, his second in the major leagues of stock car racing.

• Freshman Dick Hutcherson wins nine times and finishes second in the point chase. Hutcherson is not eligible for GN Rookie of the Year honors since he had previously won a championship from another sanctioning body, USAC.