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by: Johnny Mallonee with PattyKay Lilley
I bid you welcome gentle readers, to another leg of our journey through the race tracks of Georgia, where our tour guide, Johnny Mallonee spent many, many Southern Nights. I do hope you all are...
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My Saturday Night Hero
Back in... heck, I don't know how long ago it was, but it was a long time ago... maybe in 1950 or so, I can remember playing out by the shop where Dad kept his car. On the side, there was an old car... what kind I can't...
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The First Women in Racing
[caption id="attachment_2253" align="alignleft" width="150"] Cody Dinsmore[/caption]
With all the media hype over Danica Patrick this past week, I figure I would talk about something relating to that. I will admit...
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Southern Nights - Telfair County Speedway
by: Johnny Mallonee w/ pkl
This week, we leave the 441 Speedway in Dublin and head down 441 to McRae, where we encounter the Telfair County Speedway.
Just to keep you up to date, Johnny has...
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A Day at the Races with Big Bill France
By: Dave Fulton
Things were different at Daytona International Speedway thirty years ago, on Thursday, February 17, 1983. I was 34 - not 64 as I am today. And, Bill France, Sr., then aged 73, was...
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The Fastest Woman on the Beach
by: Hope Player
Vicki Wood became The Fastest Woman on the Beach in 1960, when she set the track record for the fastest one-way run in the history of racing on Daytona Beach, and that record of 150.375...
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50 Years of NASCAR Racing ~Post 50
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...
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The Way Racing Used to Be
By Grady Bryant
Grady Bryant with his first race car, 1961
It was a time when most kids were at the beach or worrying about what to wear to the next party. Fuzzy dice hung from all the rearview mirrors and...
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by: Cody Dinsmore
Sam McQuagg was born on November 11th of 1937 in Columbus, Georgia.
He was working as a construction worker when he and some friends went to a local race track near Macon. At the age of 19, Sam was intrigued and wanted...
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by: Cody Dinsmore
This Sunday, the 24th Peach Bowl Speedway Reunion will take place in Austell, Georgia, and because of this I will talk about this "Ghost Track."
The Peach Bowl Speedway was located at 1040 Brady Avenue, in Atlanta. It...
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