Carl Edwards' Debris Field; Parts & Pieces in Stands? Where Was Hood Tether? 1st Daytona Duel
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Johnny, I did note the empty grandstand behind the car in another viewing.
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Carl Edwards' Debris Field; Parts & Pieces in Stands? Where Was Hood Tether? 1st Daytona Duel
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Oh, Tim... that was just EXCELLENT!
Carl Edwards' Debris Field; Parts & Pieces in Stands? Where Was Hood Tether? 1st Daytona Duel
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Did you see what happened to Carl Edwards' Gen6 Ford Fusion when Denny Hamlin got loose and took Edwards and Trevor Bayne out in the first of Thursday's Budweiser Duel Qualifying races for the Daytona 500?
Scary Stuff.
Parts & Pieces flying everywhere off of Carl's Roush-Fenway Ford. I hope no debris went in grandstand.
The hood appeared to fly off. Did the tether fail or has the hood tether been abandonned? Take a look if you missed it of the parts flying off that car.
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM
2nd Duel Grand Marshal Company Plug Fail
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Never would have happened, Chase!
Heck - when we started sponsoring the 7-Eleven Twins in 1985, I suggested calling one race the Big Gulp 125 and the other race the Slurpee 125. That was a little too over the top for ISC, though!
King Comments Today on Agressive Driving, Other Issues; STP Sponsors Martinsville in April; Retire Car #s?
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STP announced in Daytona this morning that they'd be sponsoring the April Martinsville Cup race.
During the News Conference, STP spokesman, Richard Petty offered his views on several topics as just reported in the Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Richard Petty talks racing in Daytona
Petty offers views on NASCAR Battle and the Daytona 500
The King of NASCAR, Richard Petty, watches the monitor as his car runs the track during practice before the Sprint Unlimited race at the Daytona International Speedway, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013.
News-Journal / David Massey
Published: Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 11:23 a.m.
Richard Petty, seven-time winner of the Daytona 500, stopped by the media center at Daytona International Speedway to help make an STP announcement and wound up talking about his views on the driving in this week's Battle at the Beach, Sprint Cup racing today and retiring numbers in NASCAR.
Petty, who has won the 500 more than any other driver in history, helped STP announce its sponsorship of the 500 on April 7 at the Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virg.
What did he think about the aggressive driving at the UNOH Battle of the Beach?
"I watched those dudes Monday and Tuesday night. That was an (Dale Sr. ) Earnhardt move," Petty said. "I didn't see anything different. It's just showing up more." (He added it used to be only on the last lap.)
"It's hard to stay off people," he said. "You want to stay as close as you can."
"We always had a lot of beating and bashing, but you try to stay alive," Petty said. "You try to move him out of the way but not knock him out of the race."
What does he think about the racing in the Sprint Cup series today?
"Now it's a plain old gamble. If you're in the right place at the right time, you win a race. You just have to be up there." He said he looked at the old days as "racing."
"Now they just run," he said.
What do you think about NASCAR retiring numbers like they do in some other professional sports?
Petty said he likes seeing the 43 out on the track. "It's part of history, part of me," he said. "It goes back into history and ties modern days into what NASCAR has been all these years."
"If they start retiring the number," he said, "first thing you know we're not going to have a lot of numbers."
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM
Feb 21, 1954: Tim Flock takes checkers at the Beach...
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Thanks, Chase, great stuff.
Does anyone have an accurate list of how many times in the history of NASCAR's "Premier" Series, one driver was awarded the trophy, but a different driver cashed the check?
Charlotte Goes No Smoking
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Just heard a snippet on the 6:00 Charlotte television news:
In a sign of the times, Charlotte Motor Speedway has announced a new "No Smoking" policy at the Speedway, ZMax Dragway and the Dirt Track at CMS. Details to be forthcoming.
Quite a change for the track that hosted all but one of "The Winston" All Star races and even engaged in a fued with RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company when it erected Skoal advertising signs.
The days are gone forever when CMS featured races in series sponsored by Winston and Camel and had "Little Johnny" of Philip Morris as a Grand Marshal. We all knew this was coming I guess. Hard to imagine. Even though April will mark five years since I quit, some of my fondest memories of CMS involve races with cars carrying sponsorship from Skoal, Copenhagen, Chattanooga Chew, Winston, Camel, Levi-Garrett, Timberwolf, etc.
I think one of the late 50s/early 60s folk songs summed it up.... "The Times They Are A Changing."
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/16/16 07:54:05AM
RC, Chocolate and Jr. Talk About When Dale Joined Wrangler - For You Dave!
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Yeah, that's the paint scheme Chris Economaki said was the best he had ever seen on any stock car.
RC, Chocolate and Jr. Talk About When Dale Joined Wrangler - For You Dave!
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The photo below is another John Betts photo taken at the August 1981 Michigan race. That's what the #2 JD Stacy car looked like the first time out without Dale Earnhardt at the wheel. Joe Ruttman was now in the car. For the $10,000 I paid him, Stacy painted the car solid blue, removing the yellow front end, and made the chevron solid yellow instead of the blue & yellow chevron previously on the car as designed by Wrangler.
