Junior Flagman

I just looked at old videos that Sherman Garris told me about taken at Dillon back around 1965. While there I watched a video from Dillon of the Carolina Vintage Stock Cars and noticed young person in the stands behind the flagstand that was flagging the race. This reminded me that I watched a young person do the same thing at Rockingham on Saturday for the late model, street stock races and truck qualifying. Both had their own set of flags and had the same style of flag movements.

Does anyone know the name of this young person? Are both videos of the same person or are they different people?

I enjoyed watching him/her at Rockingham. During qualifying the flagman spends a lot of time waving the flags and it looked from a distance like this youth would change from left hand to right hand as he switched from one flag to the next so he would not wear one arm out to quickly. He/she was just as good with one hand as the other.

I've seen children waving flags in the stands before but not like this kid. If the person on the flagstand was waving a flag, so was this kid. Had a uniform and a complete set of full size flags. Did a very good job.

I remember a young man at Dover in the 80s at every race standing behind the flag stand with his own flags and displaying the correct ones. Very neat to see.

The young man at Rockingham was the son of UARA Flagman Danny Willard. I have seen this young man and he will be following in his dad's footsteps for sure.

???? What is chopped all stars?

LOL... Haven't had an "evening" snack!

Thanks Jerry, That is most likely who I saw on the video. The late models were there the same night as the vintage cars. Next time you see Master Willard encourage him to keep it up, people notice, and he is GOOD.