Thanks, Tim... and Chase for your followup.
The cars of Bobby Johns with his distinctive blue & white scheme were always easy to pick out on the track.
And, Tim, as you say - if Mauriice were the better driver as Richard stated....... holy cow!
Number 1 - As the father of two grown daughters and a doting grandfather of two grandsons, do not under any circumstance miss your son's high school graduation. I cannot begin to tell of the recitals, school plays, etc. I missed while on the racing circuit. If I could doi it over again, I would have put the children first.
As for the ASR, I see nothing hypocritical in enjoying freee stuff.
Charles, to my knowledge I was not. Sorry to have missed that.
On Friday night in Richmond, Kyle Busch came into the event with three consecutive wins and attempted to tie one of the sacred records in NASCAR Nationwide Series racing history - the record of winning 4 consecutively scheduled races.
The amazing record set in 1983 by Sam Ard continues to stand alone following the Richmond festivities and Kyle's 3rd place finish.
Beginning with a win in race #30 on September 24, 1983 at South Boston, Virginia, Sam continued to win Race #31 at Martinsville, Race #32 at Orange County and concluded his win streak by taking event #33 at Charlotte on October 8, 1983 in the then NASCAR Budweiser Late Model Sportsman Series.
Congratulations to the multi-time champion!
Your record continues to stand alone, Sam!
Unless you've been living in a vacuum, you've by now seen the "Kick Heard 'Round the World."
That would be Nelson Piquet, Jr.'s kick to fellow Nationwide driver Brian Scott's groin following Friday night's race at Richmond - the kick that led to the later attack of Piquet, Jr. in the Richmond motorhome lot by two RCR crewmen who were arrested and taken to Henrico County, Va. jail.
Turns out the apple doesn't fall far from the tree and young Piquet, Jr. was only demonstrating the kick his father, Nelson Piquet, Senior, attempted to perfect 31 years ago in the F-1 Grand Prix at Hockenheim, Germany.
They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Like father / like son.
Here's the video of the 1982 kick:
Nope... and by race time it was the #3 Childress Pontiac, not the #2 Osterlund Pontiac.
On April 30, 2014, Talladega named its backstretch with a 200 foot long sign "The Alabama Gang Superstretch" honoring Neil Bonnett, Red Farmer, Bobby Allison and Donnie Allison.
That offered an opportunity for cheesy photos with the remaining 3 "Gang" members.
Thanks, Dennis. That program cover was from the first race Wrangler ever sponsored and the first race at Richmond that ever had a sponsor.
The 1985 headquarters of Virginia's then SOVRAN Bank on the Norfolk, Virginia waterside. The eventual C&S/SOVRAN was gobbled up by Charlotte's Bank of America.
