NASCAR's Terry Labonte & Billy Hagan Won Daytona 24 Hours Class 28 Years Ago
Stock Car Racing History
Billy Hagan was a super person.
Stratagraph did a four or five page paper that was put into the press kits and he also sent it to his customers. For the Lemans race that year he had the paper done in English and French. I am fortunate enough to still have both.
For the Lemans race Billy made arrangements for Terry to fly back and forth on the Concord so he could practice his cup car and then go to Lemans and practice and run the Lemans car.
When the car got to Lemans the inspectors were pretty rough on them. The car was so wide with the fenders flaired to cover the tires that the team was required to put clearance lights on the fender flares.
I was told by a crew member that there was fix a flat and tools hidden in the car up in the dash. Cale did not know it because no one told him. He possibly could have let the air out of the front tires, let them pull it out with the rope and then inflate the tires. Granted he would probably have been penalized but if he had known it would have been worth a try.