If I had a Nickel
Legendtorial for September 16, 2014
Remember last year when the commercial for the "Official Race Fuel" for NASCAR would run that commercial with all the drivers lamenting "If I had a nickel for every time…….(fill in the...
Stock Car Racing in the '50s
I'm writing to tell you about a recently released book entitled "Stock Car Racing in the '50s", written by Ford Easton. The first book signing was held at the Cuba Lake Raceway Reunion/Luncheon in Cuba, NY on July 30,...
Legendtorial for September 9, 2104
Short Tracks, Now and Then and Throw in a Roadcourse
First things first, tonight. Let’s get this past weekend behind us with both the Nationwide, soon to be Xfinity, or X-lax, or X Racing, whatever. I watched...
Legendtorial for September 2, 2014
May I Borrow Your Pencil
Almost everyone who has been around the sport of NASCAR for more than a week already knows that there are NO NASCAR rules written in stone, nor are the rules which are written in the...
Legendtorial for August 26, 2014
Pampers and Pacifiers
Sometimes I wonder about this sport we call NASCAR racing and where it is going. I look at young up and comers like Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, Kyle Larson, those three the better known of an...
Legendtorial for August 19, 2014
We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
Actually, that line is probably best known from the advertisements on television some years ago when a cigarette manufacturer was seeking to promote its product to the feminine...
The Kevin Ward and Tony Stewart Tragedy
By Cody Dinsmore
Saturday night (8/9/14) was a night that one of the world's best and what possibly could have been a rising rookie were racing which ended in the latter's death. When I first heard about the...
Back, way back, when Jeff hung the title on me, or more specifically his computer did, I was hesitant to accept the mantle as “The Legend”. After consideration that it could possibly be a good thing for the website, I agreed and, in my limited...
Legendtorial for August 5, 2014
Autographs
This past week there was a video on a Social Media Site that stirred a tremendous number of comments. The video was taken at Indy and involved two of the sport’s top drivers and a fan. The scene was...
Legentorial for July 29, 2014
A Dirt Track, a Short Track, and a Rectangle with Rounded Corners
Yes Sir, race fans, last week was the week almost anyone who likes to watch a stock car compete on a race track could have a field day. That “Yes...
Legendtorial for July 22, 2014
Danger, Danger Will Robinson
Maybe some of you folks remember the three season space fantasy on one of the major television networks back in the days when we received on three television channels, or if you lived in...
If a Tree Fell
Legendtorial for July 15, 2014
We have all heard the saying, or more specifically the question, “If a tree fell in the forest and there was no one around to hear it, would it make a sound?” I’m not sure I have a sure answer...
Yes it was Nice to See
Legendtorial for July 8, 2014
I watched the Nationwide race last Friday night and it was a good race. Kasey Kahne won the shoot out and the only time he led was to the last 10 feet or so to the finish line. Pretty...
Fireball Roberts, A Personal Story
It is almost impossible for me to believe that today, July 2, 2014, marks 50 years since the death of Edward Glenn Roberts, Jr., better known to me and the stock car racing world as “Fireball” Roberts. For the...
The Fault, Dear Brutus…
Legendtorial for July 1, 1014
Actually, the full quote, from the William Shakespeare play, “Julius Caesar”, Act 1, Scene Two, is “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves”. Good old Cassius was trying...
