Danica Guaranteed Daytona 500 Start by Tommy Baldwin
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I put a post on facebook about how it took NASCAR so long to do away with racing back to the caution flag and it was deleted, so maybe NASCAR owns part of facebook.
Forum Activity for @robert-staley
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Danica Guaranteed Daytona 500 Start by Tommy Baldwin
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Dave is a grown man and he knows this is a tough business. This is his only way to stay in Cup racing right now. NASCAR"s degree of love for the youth movement has done a complete 180 since I started watching racing. One short track star I knew tried to get into one of the top three series for years. In the early 90's he was too young and by the late 90's he was too old. No room for the faint of heart here. BTW did you ever think the rulebook was worth a hoot ?
Danica Guaranteed Daytona 500 Start by Tommy Baldwin
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It's really not fair, but what is these days ? Certainly not racing. This is nothing new for our sport, just different because a woman who is the most popular female driver ever is involved. If this is what it takes to keep Tommy Baldwin in racing and growing, then so be it. Sure beats the alternative. I'll be rooting for you Tommy.
Car and Track
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You had to be sick upon hearing that news. I often wonderwhere there is old racingfootage hid somewhere that we don't know about.
Top-10 Coolest Drivers
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Mylist.In no particular order, Tim Richmond, Joe Weatherly. Jabe Thomas, Tony Stewart, Dick May, Dale Sr., The King , Dick Brooks, Wendell Scott, and Fireball.
AIR CONDITIONING IN A RACE CAR????---Have you ever!
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Can't remember the exact details, but there was a car in one of the races on the beach at daytona that had AC. Sems like itwas in the mid-fifties. It was not one of the front runners.
1962 Southern 500 on youtube
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Getting back to mypost about whether the commentary was done during the race or afterward..... upon watching the video all the way through for the second time, it came to me that McKay stated that the race was coming to a point " about 22 laps from the end" shortly before the Johnny Allen crash. In fact that crash happened about 80 laps from the finish and the pass for the real race lead by Frank over Petty took place just after that caution. I would now guess that part of the race was done as it went with commentary added afterward to make the race flow better on the telecast. Of course Economaki's race time pit work was incredible and can never be duplicated. I hope we will soon see more of these early ABC efforts in the near future. Thanks for yourcomments, Wally.
1962 Southern 500 on youtube
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It struck me after reading your reply that the scoring mixup also deprived the television audience of a very exciting last lap where the real leader , Frank , lost a tire and held off the hard charging Johnson by just five seconds.Another question. Did the ABC lead announcers do those early races "live" or post production ? It sure seems that McKay is doing the race as it goes in this broadcast. Some of the sound effects ( including the way the cars sound) are definitely post production.
1962 Southern 500 on youtube
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Tim, I was wondering if there was a buzz amongst the crowd at this race concerning the insanity on the leaderboard. Did most of the crowd think Junior had won ? This is one of the most interesting races that I've ever had the pleasure to research. I hate that the scoring snafu robbed Larry Frank of his moment in the limelight.