Lake Wood Speedway - Denver, NC - 1950
Historic Speedways and Ghost Tracks
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Lake Wood Speedway - Denver, NC - 1950
Historic Speedways and Ghost Tracks
Love to see 'um, Charles!
Indy Nationwide Crowd??
Current NASCAR
He's an under-the-radar-flyer, but Uncle Jim was in on the Indy/Nationwide debacle too. The Frances, correctly, knew a lot was riding on their total Indy weekend. The upcoming TV contracts, the flagging Nationwide Series, and the fizzling Brickyard 400 itself. The game plan was to make a three-day Speedway/NASCAR extravaganza that would ,somehow, produce a sum greater than its individual components.
Again, it was another high-stakes gamble waged by the Frances, that runs the risk of loosing the tradition-laden IRP fan. (a'la' Darlington, Rockingham, and Wilkesboro) Time will tell if this grand experiment is successful. However, NASCAR has been loosing their own bets for years, now, and this one don't appear to be any different.
LET ME TRY THIS AND SEE IF IT FLYS
Stock Car Racing History
Does anybody know the year that NASCAR began allowing teams to fabricate their body panels? I'd guess sometime in the 1990's........anyway, that pretty much blew the lid off Pandora's box (again) and eventually culminated in Ford demanding the NASCAR-i-zation of their not-too-racy 4-door Taurus. Rather than build a car that fit the desired parameters, the established protocol, NASCAR gave FoMoCo a 'buy' and allowed extreme modifications to an aerodynamic slug. Naturally, everybody else demanded equal treatment, and it became an aerodynamic nut house, and one that had not seen since the late '60's. The only way to get the horse back in the barn was for NASCAR to design the bodies and make everybody's exactly equal..........voila' thecar of tomorrow. That's why the NASCAR Camaro can't look like a real one.
LET ME TRY THIS AND SEE IF IT FLYS
Stock Car Racing History
Like the Mustang and the Challenger, NASCAR'staken some liberties with the Camaro from the windshield aft. Until this announcement, GM/Chevy was adamantly opposed to the body lines being NASCAR-ized. Back room meetings, no doubt, but it's tough trying to fund a Quattlebaum series these days. Sponsors and teams, and FANS aren't exactly standing in line. GM must have been convinced, even with a body massage, it will aid sales. The old win on Sunday, sell on Mondayphilosophy (still) lives.
Dinger Failed again?
Stock Car Racing History
Producing a sample, in two different cups, in the same time frame, will not change the data. It's still the same sample...such a maneuver would only serve to nullify any possible error made in the testing of the first sample. This testing methodguaranteesidentical results.
Dinger Failed again?
Stock Car Racing History
I agree, PK. When all this first came out, the "A" and "B" nomenclature, I thought "A" and "B" were two different samples. Now it is clear, as you point out, they are the same sample. Barring a mistake in the testing procedure, how could the results be different?
What's in a Picture
Stock Car Racing History
William, I did not know that Bennett Allen was driving the #4, thanks for the up-date. You are so right about the big money!
What's in a Picture
Stock Car Racing History
Borrowing a page from Jim Wilmore's 'whats in a picture' series.....here's one from from Wilmington, NC's 'Carolina Beach Speedway' in 1964. 
updated by @bobby-williamson: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM