Vickers win begs a trivia question
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Vickers win begs a trivia question
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Joe Nemechek started just 31 of 36 races in 2001 when he won the fall Rockingham race for Andy Petree. Don't know if Joe had DNQs or not for the 5 races he didn't start.
Al Hylton
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From Racing Reference:
1984 Wrangler 150
NASCAR Busch Grand National Series race number 2 of 29
Saturday, February 25, 1984 at Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway, Richmond, VA
150 laps on a .542 mile paved track (81.3 miles)
Time of race: 1:04:58
Average Speed: 75.084 mph
Pole Speed: 97.814 mph Cautions: 5 for 22 laps
Lead changes: 1
Fin St # Driver Sponsor / Owner Car Laps Money Status Led Points
1 3 00 Sam Ard Thomas Brothers Country Ham (Howard Thomas) Oldsmobile 150 7,450 running 138 180
2 2 32 Dale Jarrett Econo Lodge (Horace Isenhower) Pontiac 150 2,800 running 0 170
3 6 7 Dale Earnhardt Wrangler Jeans (Ed Whitaker) Oldsmobile 150 1,800 running 0 165
4 14 49 Wayne Patterson Lowe's / Colonial Tire Pontiac 150 1,200 running 0 160
5 4 11 Jack Ingram Fast Fare / Skoal Bandit (Jack Ingram) Pontiac 150 2,500 running 0 155
6 18 27 Bosco Lowe Ryder's Floor Store Pontiac 150 1,100 running 0 150
7 12 02 Elton Sawyer Great Bridge (Elton Sawyer) Pontiac 149 725 running 0 146
8 16 6 Tommy Houston Mason Day Paving (Mike Day) Chevrolet 149 1,975 running 0 142
9 13 21 Larry Pearson Chattanooga Chew (David Pearson) Pontiac 148 625 running 0 138
10 10 2 Jeff Hensley Smith-Davis Tires Pontiac 148 975 running 0 134
11 9 04 Eddie Falk Pabst / Godfather's Pizza (Eddie Falk) Pontiac 148 825 running 0 130
12 15 16 Jimmy Lawson Lawson-Fitzgerald Garage Pontiac 146 800 running 0 127
13 7 95 Bubba Nissen Nissen Racing Pontiac 146 450 running 0 124
14 24 62 John Linville Flow Dynamics (John Linville) Pontiac 143 725 running 0 121
15 1 12 Tommy Ellis Ellis Racing Pontiac 95 1,750 ball joint 12 118
16 17 99 Rick Mast Nelson Building Supply Pontiac 91 675 engine 0 115
17 22 9 Bob Shreeves S & S Racing (Bob Shreeves) Pontiac 60 670 engine 0 112
18 19 73 Billy Hogan Freeman's Garage Chevrolet 39 365 rear end 0 0
19 11 45 Charlie Luck Luck Stone / Dryden Oil (Charlie Luck) Pontiac 38 660 crash 0 106
20 21 30 Bubba Adams Corning Inn Pontiac 38 355 crash 0 0
21 5 51 Robert Ingram Hall Pontiac Pontiac 30 650 engine 0 100
22 23 0 Allen Applegate Applegate Racing Chevrolet 28 345 oil leak 0 97
23 20 50 Al Hylton Deeth Chassis Ford 27 340 engine 0 0
24 8 88 Jay Hedgecock SSI Racing Pontiac 2 335 engine 0 91
Al Hylton
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RR member, Ed Sanseverino has the 1975 photo below of Al Hylton at Trico posted on his page:
Racing History Minute - July 14, 1957
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Awesome photos, Chase. Speaking of that "other" King, the #1 song on July 14, 1957 was (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear by Elvis Presley.
Racing History Minute - July 14, 1957
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Motorcycle and Race Car Driver. Born in Dearborn County, Indiana, he was a motorcycling pioneer who set dozens of cross-country records riding a variety of motorcycles and was known for record-setting runs in automobiles. In 1908, Baker purchased an Indian motorcycle, began entering races and won the first race ever held at the newly built Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909. After a record-setting transcontinental drive in 1914, he was nicknamed "Cannon Ball". From the 1910s through the 1930s, he set 143 driving records and his best remembered drive was a 1933 New York City to Los Angeles trek, setting a 53.5 hour record that stood for nearly 40 years. He also had a focus toward automobiles, drove in the 1922 Indianapolis 500 Race, finishing 11th and became a test driver for automobile companies. He became an AMA race official and later was named the first Commissioner of NASCAR. He died of a heart attack at age 78 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was posthumously inducted to the Motorcycle Museum's Hall of Fame 1998. (bio by:
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Racing History Minute - July 14, 1957
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Chase, you have been a busy fellow. Lots of information to digest. Thanks for the research.
Racing History Minute - July 14, 1957
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I've managed to make it through nearly 65 years without hearing of the mile and 1/2 dirt track in Arkansas until your post today, Tim. Many thanks.
Jim Foster wrote in the June 26, 1957 Spartanburg paper that the track had suffered two consecutive rain outs that cost the teams a great deal of money.
In his review of South Carolina motorsports writer Mike Hembree's book, 100 Things NASCAR Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, motorsports journalist Tom Higgins has the following passage:
For me, the most compelling chapter in 100 Things is entitled A Ghostly Track. Its about Memphis-Arkansas Speedway, where NASCAR founder Big Bill France took his tour for five races at the top level from 1954-57.
Mike Hembree, author of "100 Things NASCAR Fans Should Know And Do Before They Die," has been a motorsports journalist for over 30 years.
Hembree writes that few former NASCAR tracks have a story as riveting as the track located at LeHi, Ark. The track was a strange animal a 1.5-mile, high-banked dirt oval, 14 miles from the Mississippi River in what once was, and now is again, fertile farmland.
Because of its length and severe banking (it) was one of NASCARs earliest examples of high-speed, high-risk racing. It was too fast and too dangerous for the technology of the 50s, and drivers showing up to compete at the track realized the difficulties immediately. It was one of the few tracks that shot a sense of fear through drivers in those barnstorming early days of NASCAR.
Hembree relates that Cotton Owens said, It was rough, and you got through the turns the best way you could. It had so many holes. It was so dusty you couldnt see
Remembers Richard Petty, It was really, really fast for dirt. We had never run a mile and a half on dirt and never anything close to that fast. (Qualifying speeds at LeHi were in the 100 mph range).
Four drivers and two crewmen were hospitalized with injuries in LeHis first race on Oct. 10, 1954. A local newspaper described the race as full of wrecks, gasoline explosions and flaming cars.
Notes Hembree, A sad trend had been established On Oct. 9, 1955, driver Tiny Lund, making his first start in the Cup Series (then Grand National) was involved in a brutal accident Lund was thrown from his Chevrolet when the car flipped several times. He landed on the track surface and drivers behind him swerved to avoid him. Ralph Liguori hit Lunds helmet as he drove through the wreckage I thought I had killed him, said Liguori.
Said Richard Petty, I was there when Tiny got thrown out of the car and was laying in the middle of the track. He was big as a car. He was laying there with his T-shirt and white pants on in that dark gumbo (soil).
Hembree reasons that Lunds all-white clothing probably saved his life in the horrifying accident, allowing following drivers to see him more easily in the dust that flew around the track.
Lund sustained only a broken arm and a few bruises.
Tragically, 20 years later in 1975 the popular Lund was destined to die in a crash at Talladega.
Continues Hembree, In June of 1956 two drivers were killed (at LeHi) when their cars hurtled out of the track.
The danger, the excessive dust and financial problems led to the demise of the track in 1957.
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Thanks for the report, Jimmy. Sounds like it was a wonderful event.