I watched a good bit of Speed's Victory Lane. But after the fun opening when Buzzed Brad poured beer on the guys and Roger Penske had his interview, I turned it off. Then "just because" I guess, I tweeted Kyle Petty a photo of The Captain's first car fielded under Penske Racing. It was a 16 Matador fielded for Mark Donahue in the 1972 Winston Western 500. Coincidentally, Penske's first race as a car owner was also the first race for the famed 43 of The King to be sponsored by STP.
I blogged about the race here:
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-23-this-day-in-petty-history.html
Here is my tweet to KP. I knew it was a legit one, and I didn't expect a reply. I'm sure Kyle reads most of the tweets sent to him, but he normally just replies for some reason to rude people, dumb people, and selfish people begging for a re-tweet for no reason.
I didn't think anything more about it. But a few minutes later, I got a tweet from Scott Baker who runs the neat website www.bakerracingpix.com saying KP had given me a shout-out on TV. WHAT??
I DVR'd the re-run overnight & watched it this morning. Sure enough, near the show's close, I got this. Anonymous - but I'm there! Ha ha
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updated by @tmc-chase: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM
