I tell ya what, by looking at results from the first few seasons of Strictly Stock, Hubert Westmoreland had some tough cars to beat. He won the first Strictly Stock race in Charlotte in June of 49', but was disqualified. His car also won the first Southern 500 with Johnny Mantz as driver.
BTW, what a name for the 3rd place finisher,Ewell Weddle.I'll bet you he raced in the Quattlebaum division!
So I have this vision that NAPA (a Georgia based company) will jump on board with Chase Elliott with his Truck program next year. Aaron's will not be rejoining Chase for the time since 2008 as since Chase is moving up in his career, they chose to be full-time with the #55 @ MWR. (May have been a bad choice now, lol)
If you think about it, almost every free agent has a sponsor. Ex- Newman has Cat. Larson has Target, Clorox, etc. Somebody will get Furniture Row. Harvick still has Bud. and Kurt Busch will have Hass Automation. With Elliott rising through the ranks and NAPA being a home-state (for him) sponsor, I think it would be a perfect match!
-Cody
Elvis is the man! I have to say that. My birthday is the anniversary of his death and my parents wedding anniversary is the date of his birth!
I really hate this for Tony. I too broke my Fibula bone last September (except I wasn't racing a Sprint Car!) and I couldn't walk good until late October. My guess is that he will be out until mid September (probably right after the chase starts)
I just really hate it, especially since he was working hard to secure a spot in the chase. I hope guys like Kyle Larson or one of the Blaney's.....even one of the Dillions can get a shot at his ride after the Glen.
Thanks for posting this great piece of "Georgia Racing History"
I thoroughly enjoyed myself watching the entire 7-11:30 broadcast. I had a ton of fun. I would also be willing to bet that just as many, if not more, tuned in on tv than they did for the Daytona 500. Even though the track only held 20 or 30 thousand people.....it was literally packed to the max!
Like Tim said, I was happy to see some of the veterans such as Schrader, Dave Blaney, Kenny Wallace and others starting near the front. Also, I don't think I'll ever consider Norm Benning a 'Start and Park' again! Is it me or does he not favor the late Dick Trickle, either?
The first segment was rather un-eventful, the middle to the last half of the second segment was getting good. But come segment #3, it was easily the best racing of all three series I had seen since last year. I noticed the track was stirring up more dust, and Larson especially was getting COMPLETELY sideways, unlike earlier when they just moderately broadslided. I had noticed that their was really no middle groove; you either ran right against the outside wall, or the inside infield wall. I had an assumption that one of the Dillion's would win, and I was happy that Austin won. Anywhere you look, I was very pleased.
It was kind of like when the trucks announced a return to Rockingham last year, but 10 times better. It seems to me that NASCAR is putting the right foot forward. Even though we may complain about some guys at the cup level and cookie cutter tracks, you have to admit that NASCAR is trying to please the fans one movement at a time. The fans wanted cars that looked like their street counter parts - we got that. We wanted the trucks and Nationwide series to visit different tracks than cup - that's starting to happen. We wanted racing to go back to dirt - well, you see how that turned out.
My prediction is that this was a test - Eldora will be back on the schedule for next year for trucks and possibly a second dirt track by 2015/16. I expect to see more short tracks put back on the schedule like when the truck series originated. I even hoping that the Nationwide series will go to Eldora by 2016, which is probably likely, but at the same time, I don't see the Cup ever going back to dirt. The market that their (NASCAR) is trying to sell Cup races to are to uninformed about dirt racing and probably wouldn't like it. The "old school" fans of yesteryear are jumping on board with the trucks and this will be the series to watch for!!!
-Cody
Awesome Johnny! I love that they mounted a camera inside the cockpit like they used to have in very few cars in the mid-late 80's. I think it's the best view. I just can't wait for this race!!!
I am shocked that this is the whole list. I am very surprised that Chase Elliott, Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart, and a few other regular dirt drivers aren't going to attempt it. Kyle's always has been good on dirt and not sure why he doesn't want to enter a truck of his own since he already has 3 in it. And have no idea why Chase is not running. He's been running and winning in some non-advertised dirt races in North Georgia this year. It's not a NASCAR owned track and it's under a mile. I am pretty shocked that they (Bill Elliott and Hendrick) is not putting him in this race for experience.
Only 35 trucks are on the list and if I'm not mistaken, 30 are going to be in the show. I would've thought that there would may have been closer to 45 trying to get in.
Just some thoughts
-Cody
I would like to go....but I highly doubt that my mom would let her soon to be 17 year old travel through two states by myself.
hahaha! Is that why he comes to Myrtle Beach once a week??
