Racing History Minute - November 11, 1951
Stock Car Racing History
I like how they say 'some' 200 and 'some' 250 points. Shows how it wasn't easy to get 100% accurate information back then, half a century before you could just look it up online.
Forum Activity for @sandeep-banerjee
Stock Car Racing History
Oct 27, 1973: The IROC series debuts
Stock Car Racing History
Well, it's no surprise that most of the European motorsport fraternity looks down upon NASCAR so he just played it off that generalization.
It would indeed be nice if we could have drivers actually running in each others disciplines over a fixed number of races but in today's tightly controlled racing world, it is a fantasy.
Oct 27, 1973: The IROC series debuts
Stock Car Racing History
Well, I guess when you've been through the hardships he and Betty Jo have been through before Cale hit the bigtime, you get to be like that with money.
Oct 27, 1973: The IROC series debuts
Stock Car Racing History
True but that's what you need in a way. A car that's not quite as heavy as a stocker and chuckable and nimble enough to reward a road racer's skillset too, otherwise the odds are too heavily in favour of the stock car guys as it later became.
The European/global ROC is a good thing but there have been no NASCAR champions in it the past two years. Keselowski even tweeted last year that they (ROC) didn't like them (NASCAR drivers) or something along those lines.
I guess they don't like having mighty F1 world champions humiliated by guys that turn left, eh??
Oct 27, 1973: The IROC series debuts
Stock Car Racing History
Wish they could have continued with the Porsches but it would have been too expensive I guess? Very cool series that we all wish was still around. Strange that NASCAR didn't step in to rescue the series in 2006 given how good it made their drivers look.
Racing History Minute - October 27, 1957
Stock Car Racing History
An award for flipping? Racing really was fun back then.
Don't you wish trophy queens still looked so classy? Now they make them wear those ridiculous firesuits and dab on a month's supply of makeup.
Racing History Minute - October 22, 1961
Stock Car Racing History
Do you know more about Miss Wilkinson? Had she moved stateside or what was her connection to NASCAR as she seemed to be at quite a few of them, including the 1961 World 600 alongside Pearson in victory lane.
Thanks as always for the mine of event-related information and pics.
Jeff Burton Takes Exception to Premise of Current NASCAR "Action Plan" to Attract Young Fan Base
Current NASCAR
Agree with all of you that suggest they might have missed a generation and the repercussions of that continue to linger. It really was a simple task; hold on to the existing fan base instead of alienating them as they had more spending power like you said and it is through them that the love of the sport could have been best passed on down to their kids and so on.
Racing HIstory Minute - October 12, 1952
Stock Car Racing History
I've seen some of the pit stops during those days on old film and 45 seconds is highly impressive for what they had to work with, lol. Heck, anything under a minute is!