Hamlin Blasts Childress' Grandson Following Texas Nationwide Race; Crashes Austin Dillon Into Pit Wall!
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I agree, this is definitely an awesome website!
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Hamlin Blasts Childress' Grandson Following Texas Nationwide Race; Crashes Austin Dillon Into Pit Wall!
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From what I've read about those days in Nascar, drivers helped each other a lot. Independent teams got some help and second hand parts from big-money and factory-backed teams. I've found old newspaper archives from the 70's and early 80's....discovered that back then, one of J.D. McDuffie's greatest benefactors was Benny Parsons! Some of that same spirit seems to exist in Nationwide and Craftsman Truck Series, but not always: just a few days ago, Jennifer Jo Cobb lost an engine and none of the other Truckteams would rent an engine to her!
Hamlin Blasts Childress' Grandson Following Texas Nationwide Race; Crashes Austin Dillon Into Pit Wall!
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I agree! I only started watching racing in the late 80's, so I'm not as familiar with racerslike Fred Lorenzen, Cale Yarborough, Tiny Lund or others (even though I've read some about them). But from what I gather, back then, if something happened like it did with Hamlin and Dillon, racers would take care of it amongst themselves...and not just out there on the race track either, if you know what I mean. 
Dillon probablythinks he Earnhardt Sr., but he isn't
Hamlin Blasts Childress' Grandson Following Texas Nationwide Race; Crashes Austin Dillon Into Pit Wall!
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I think the whole Hamlin/Dillon incident is a good thing for NASCAR as a sport. I don't care much for either driver, but I can't help but think that Dillon is kinda cocky
Hamlin Blasts Childress' Grandson Following Texas Nationwide Race; Crashes Austin Dillon Into Pit Wall!
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You got that right. As much as I don't like Kyle Busch, he's one of the very few top drivers in NASCAR that actually get involved with working on the race car, and I have to have some respect for that.
Fire destroys Marlin’s garage, race cars
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Sad. Had no idea about this until just now.
Remember J D Mcduffie today
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I wish I had met JD. I started watching what was then known as Winston Cup back in the late '80's. I remember a few racing memories about JD, such as watching him race his way into the 1989 Daytona 500 during a Twin 125 qualifying race. For some reason (and this is kinda strange) but I remember JD getting a stop-and-go penalty at the Michigan Cup race in 1990 for jumping the restart (CBS was broadcasting that event). Used to have a photo from a 1990 issue of Winston Cup Scene with McDuffie standing beside his car on pit lane at Pocono (with a cigar in his hand, of course). I did met Tom Rumple of Rumple Furniture in August 2002 (which, I learned much later, was about a year before he died). Rumple was very nice and we talked a lot about JD. Rumple took me to his back office and I remember seeing three walls covered with photos of either JD or JD's car racing. It's been so many years since we lost J.D. but I love reading old stories about him and trying to find old newspaper stories and articles about him. Would like to get my hands on a November 1966 issue of Stock Car Racing magazine; it's supposed to have an article about McDuffie in it. His life meant so much to me, and, at almost 36 years of age, still does, for certain reasons.