50 Years of NASCAR Racing ~ Post 59

by: Matt McLaughlin

Editor's note: This article is part of a special reprise of Matt McLaughlin's "50 Years of NASCAR Racing", written and published  in 1998 in commemoration of NASCAR's 50th Anniversary celebration that year. In keeping with the RacersReunion mission of passing the history of our sport down to younger fans, Matt has kindly granted us permission to run the entire series. Please, sit back and enjoy as you take a journey back through the pages of history and perhaps relive a memory or two. Many thanks to Matt for his generosity in sharing. God bless you, my friend.

NASCAR stock car racing is such a competitive series that the drivers and crews are always under intense pressure to perform. Like any other field of human endeavor, sometimes things go wrong and tempers get frayed. Most of the drivers, most of the time, take a deep breath, step back and count to ten. Occasionally, however, tempers explode and a driver or crew person will do something they might wish they had not the next morning. Presented for your consideration: Some of the more memorable outbursts of bad temper in stock car racing's colorful history. As always kids, don't try this at home.