This very short video comes from the Bristol Herald-Courier
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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
This very short video comes from the Bristol Herald-Courier
My first Bristol race was spring 1986. Rusty Wallace scored his 1st Cup win in the Blue Max / Alu-Gard #27 Pontiac 2+2. We walked up on race day and paid $18 for SRO. But rains moved in, and I think it washed the track down the valley about 6 feet. It poured.
A few folks brought some of those blue tarps, and about a million people squeezed under each one of them. I'm a pretty vertically challenged feller, so holding the corner of one was out of the question. Wouldn't be able to hold it above everyone's head. Fine by me - I got to stand under it and stay fairly dry.
When the rains quit & track dried, the race was on! But our plans of sitting on the bank above the backstretch were out the window because of the mud. So I stood the whole time with my toes pitched about 20 degrees lower than my heel. Ladies - I don't know how in the dickens y'all get used to wearing high heeled shoes. My feet hurt for a week after that race.
Still have my ticket stub.
