Photo by Keith Smith  1978 Cumberland International Speedway.. Fayetteville NC

1973 Southeastern 500. Second career start for DiGard. Team didn't race at Riverside. DNQ for Daytona 500. Made first start at Richmond with Donnie. Bristol was second start for the team. Qualified 8th, finished 24th.

Ray Lamm has pic of the new 59 team at Daytona here:

Then again, Alex... I was thinking of the old oval Portland Speedway and not the Portland International Raceway road layout, which might be a very interesting venue.

With a background in Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations and Business Administration, I'll certainly have to proclaim my lack of any knowledge of fluid physics, but somehow I wonder if the outcome of the encounters with our Richmond short track concrete wall by Jerry Nadeau and Derrike Cope would have been less severe with SAFER Barrier?

Evergreen is certainly a superior race track, but I was trying to minimize the number of tracks in need of significant improvements.

As for Richmond, the way this schedule is formatted makes it easy to swap Chicago and Richmond's dates.