TRUCK RACE AT THE ROCKINGHAM APRIL 15TH.
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How far is the Rock from Dawsonville I wonder. Probably a good 5 hours.....
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Get ready for the Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
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To add to that, our local Bojangles is next door to the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame! Don't eat there a whole lot, but it's pretty good! Glad to see it sponsor the Southern 500
Get ready for the Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
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BoJangles is good. And is a better suiting sponsor that "Shomax" or "Shotime" what ever it was.
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That would either be Roy Hall, or Raymond Parks. Roy Hall was the original driver of the #14 in the pre-war days, and in 1946. He was in and out of jail, so he couldn't be dependable. So Raymond hired Bob Flock to drive the 14 full time in 1947. Roy drove when he wasn't in jail. And sometimes, only a couple, Raymond drove the car.
About the colors of the 14 - White top with red bottom was the paint scheme of the #14 from 1941 to mid 1947. At this time (late 1946-early 1947) Red Byron's #22 had the same scheme. Then for what ever reason, Raymond (or Red Vogt) changed the colors to red top with white bottom on 14, and solid black on 22.
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Yup, when Bob Flock got injured in Sept. of 1947, brother Fonty took over the #14 Parks' Ford, and he won the NSCRA National Championship that year, just beating his own teammate (Byron) by about 30 points.
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Bob and Fonty would switch off on the #14 (usually.) Sometimes, Raymond did field a third car. In fact. Red Vogt brought three Raymond Parks' cars to Daytona in 1948. One for Red Byron, one for Bob Flock (Fonty was in the #1 Al Dykes' Special) and Raymond Parks drove the third entry. Towards the end of the race as Red was leading Bob, Flock's spindle broke on his car. When Raymond saw this (he was running third at the time) He pulled into the pits and gave up his seat to Bob, who went out and managed to finish in the top 5. This was one of only two times that Raymond ever drove in a race. (Pre-War Langhorne was the other and I don't know anything about it).
The reason I said 31 wins was that I didn't want to cut anyone short. In other words without looking it up, there were 31 possible wins by the Parks team. All the ones by Byron and B. Flock all go to Raymond, I'd just have to go into research about how many Fonty won for him in 1948 since he switched teams so much that year. So I'd venture to say somewhere near the 20's.
Sorry about that!
-Cody
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You're right, I couldn't count how many times I see the first season or first Nascar race being in 1949. It's alright if you say FIRST Strictly Stock, Grand National, or Cup, but not first Nascar race. Nascar already had the modifieds and roadsters in 48' and wanted Strictly Stock, but Detroit was still producing basically re-designed pre-war models. When ever I see something about Raymond Parks from Nascar, they always say "Owner of first Nascar Championship - 1949." I also remember about two years ago when they (Speed) was at the Nascar Hall of Fame reveling that years nominees and Kyle Petty of all people said something to the affect of this, which he was just reading the script, but..."Raymond's car driven by Red Byron won the first Nascar Championship in 1949. Even though Raymond won just TWO Nascar sanctioned races, that's still Hall of Fame material" ??????? 2 Nascar Wins?!?!?! Do you not think that Kyle would remember the interview Kyle Petty done with Raymond for TNT just a few years before. I DO know how to count, and I just counted 31 out of 52 races that one of Raymond Parks' cars won in 1948. That's just a little more than two....
On another note, talking about how France took away points from the 'outlaw' drivers who ran other series.....Mrs. Vaudell Sosbee (Gober's widow) has told me several times before that on more than one occasion in the early days, Gober went to drive in either the AAA or the NSCRA whether it be for more money or just the distance to the track, while he was in Nascar. When France heard about this, he took away ALL of Sosebee's points and told him that he would have to pay a fine to come back to one of his races again. It turned out that Bill France PAID Gober to come to his next race just because fans had found out that Sosebee wasn't going to be racing and threatened to leave...hah!