The Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series invades Fayetteville Motor Speedway Saturday October 20th for a $4,000 to win event. October 20th racing program will also include racing in Late Model, Open Wheel Modified, Super Street, Pure Stock, U-Car, and Micro Sprints. Pits open at 3 PM. with grandstands opening at 4 PM. and racing at 7 PM.
Sorry, Mama....don't mean to overpost. I was getting questions from members, and was trying to answer them as well as I knew how...LOL I am still learning, so I didn't know if I made the changes on the event...how soon and if they would get them. With the race being this Saturday night, I guess I was getting a little anxious, especially just finding out that Jimmy was going to be there representing RacersReunion. Sure there would be some that would make the trip if for no other reason, than to meet him!!! THANK YOU, JIMMY JOHNSON!! This is the last race of the season for Fayetteville....so I am hoping that next year...my ducks will be in a much better row. LOL Billy Biscoe said he and his wife were there a couple of years ago, and were treated like Royalty....which that is what you do for company! Thanks...Mama..and if the stars line up for us...hopefully we will make many events next year!
Thank you SO much, Jimmy!!! What an honor!!
Thank you, mam! 
Patsy, I'm going........love the 'Clash!
Wishing wonderful weather, big fields and full grandstands for all your Saturday activities.
Love it, Bopper!! Spoke with Jack Smith's son, Rick today. I do believe, he and his grandson will be there as well. It is the first time he will have been back since his Dad's passing.
Thank you, sooo much Dave!!!!
Bobby Allison was all smiles after a NASCAR Grand National East victory
at Cumberland County Speedway in Fayetteville on Aug. 5, 1973.
(Staff file photo by Johnny Horne - Fayetteville Observer)
OML.....DAVE!!! I LOVE THIS!!! I am going to look and see if any of us kids, see our faces....LOL Thank you so much....this means the world to me!!! I love ya....Buddy!!!
We ran our #11 there one night in 1973. I drove in the heat race. My first and last race!
LOL!... I can only imagine....PLEASE....tell me why!! LOL!!!!!!!!
We were rained out at Wilson (dirt track) on that Sat. night in 1974 (I'd gotten married in Nov. 1973) and decided to take our Limited Sportsman car down the road to Fayetteville where the weather was clear. Cumberland County at the time was paved, of course and did not have a Limited Sportsman class... only hobby and Late Model - so we had to run with the Late Models.
I remember Ray Hendrick was there in Richmonder Blue Burton's '69 Chevelle #33 (later driven by his son Roy as well as Bill Dennis and Al Grinnan), along with many other great Late Model cars.
Three of us rode in the pickup towing the car on the trailer from Wilson to Fayetteville. We were singing and drinking "tuning fluid" enroute. It must of been thought that I'd indulged less than our driver because I was told I was driving the car in the heat - with our M&H Racemaster dirt tires.
I don't know if you can get lapped 10 times in a ten-lap heat, but it felt like it. All I remember is I could not hold the car down in the corners and everybody kept passing me on the inside as I rode up at the top of that track with no guardrails or retaining walls in the corners, lol.
I was absolutely scared to death and never drove a car again. They had to pry me out of that car. They told me I looked like a ghost.
My wife found out about three years later and I thought she would kill me.
Do the little boys still run after their racing heroes today?
That is so funny, Dave!!! I LOVE IT!!! Knowing Fayetteville like I do, I couldn't imagine what it might have been..LOL I know my brother has friends from out of MB that run up in Fayetteville, and he asked them if they had met some of "our" hometown friends..and their reply was... they were afraid of those people up there!! To which my brother replied...look...we don't move as quickly as we used to. It carries a reputation...on and off the track! But I can imagine watching you that night...that would have been a HOOT!!!
My little boys...who are not so little anymore, still do. I have one, who would jump behind the wheel of anything to be able to race, if given the chance....he is so much like his grandfather! Jeremy even calls me on his cell, so I can listen to certain things going on...I love that! And my daughter....she would be right there with him!! That is why I stress to the kids to take their kids to the race....I know how excited they were!! Like it or not...this is their legacy. In NC schools the 4th graders are required to do a NC report. This is a major component of their grade for the year. When my grands get to that level....I will SO be a part of providing them resources of NC's racing history. Thinking back, when I was teaching I can't remember one report that it was included, not even to my own kids. I won't make that mistake with the grandchildren.
Patsy, sorry I didn't get to meet you Saturday night. I was all around Jimmy's truck and Pete's car. Maybe next time. I wish I knew Jack's son was there (Rick is it?), would have liked to talk to him.
