Wonder Boy (with busted lip) Calls Bad Boy Brad a Little Dip....
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The hole opened. They'd have all gone for it.
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Wonder Boy (with busted lip) Calls Bad Boy Brad a Little Dip....
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Rick was in a huggie mood, wasn't he, Leon? The Captain may have been up on the spotters stand, or maybe he was over at the F-1 race. I watched this in bits & pieces. Did they show Roger on the telecast? I totally missed the news the other week that he had hired Marcos Ambrose to drive Supercars for him.
Wonder Boy (with busted lip) Calls Bad Boy Brad a Little Dip....
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Y'all seen it, folks. The action ain't over till the cars are in the hauler.
Two Texas drivers are bleeding post race while sneaky Kevin Harvick slinks out of sight. Bad Boy Brad is sporting a bloody knot on his forehead, while the Wonder Boy has a bloody lip. The wondrous one on national television calls Keselowski a little dip----.
When they watch the replay, they'll both see it was actually a very sneaky Kevin Harvick shoving Brad from behind and running away, starting the pit road post race melee at Texas this evening. We've seen this Harvick stealth move before. If you're gonna sneak up on somebody and then run like a girl, I think the dip---- label applies to Harvick as well.
The Phoenix grandstands are already sold out... the hillside will be after the Texas shootout on pit road. Like Jimmy Spencer before him, I don't guess Brad planned to invite any of those fellas home to dinner.
Ah, well... Phoenix does lend itself to easy payback.
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM
jim sauter pass away 1943-2014 RIP
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I remember Jim in those beautiful red, white & blue Mueller Brothers Evinrude Pontiacs, especially when we raced at Michigan. Thanks for posting, Ray. Prayers and thoughts to family and friends.
November 1, 1987 Winston Classic at Martinsville
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Bill, Barry Beggarly became the first driver to win 2 NASCAR Late Model Stock Car races at Martinsville in the same season, a feat he accomplished in 1994. 65 year old Beggarly, of Pelham, NC, turned 45 in September of his first two-win Martinsville season.
November 1, 1987 Winston Classic at Martinsville
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Worst news of the weekend was reported on Saturday, October 31, 1987 when the U.S. Department of Transportation ok'd the merger of perennially poor performing U.S. Air with Piedmont - the "Official Airline of NASCAR" and sponsor of Terry Labonte's 1984 Winston Cup championship run for Billy Hagan. Piedmont had earlier turned down a lucrative proposal to be be acquired by Norfolk Southern Railway to align with the Pittsburgh air carrier.
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November 1, 1987 Winston Classic at Martinsville
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The usually reliable for its race coverage Fredericksburg, Va. newspaper totally ignored the 1987 Winston Classic at Martinsville. Instead, the Free Lance Star on October 28, 1987 ran a news story detailing efforts of school and church groups to keep a quarter-mile asphalt stock car track from being built near their tiny Hartwood, Va. community north of Fredericksbiurg, citing the demons of noise, debris, and vandalism from race folk as reasons to fight the proposal.
The proponent of the new speedway was none other than the ever affable, late Al Grinnan , former track champion at Fredericksburg Speedway, Virginia Raceway, Old Dominion, Southside and Wilson County Speedway in North Carolina. Grinnan was a former Virginia State NASCAR Late Model Sportsman division champion (who, ironically had in an earlier year sat on the Martinsville LMS pole) , as well as having been voted by his peers as Most Popular Driver in the NASCAR Modified division.
Some of the opposers were probably the relatives of the folk who went to such great lengths to oppose the new Dominion Speedway facility set to open next year.
November 1, 1987 Winston Classic at Martinsville
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RR member, Dr. Jan Woodberry has many photos posted on our site from the personal collection of Sam Ard and wife, Jo. The two below show the collaboration between car owner, Sam and Martinsville race winner, Jimmy Hensley:
November 1, 1987 Winston Classic at Martinsville
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Every time I read through these results I remember so many different things. Modified winner, George Kent sat on the pole when we brought the mods back to Richmond after a many years absence. The Pontiac folks called 2nd finishing mod driver, Jamie Tomaino "Tomato Head" and the name really stuck. I remember pole sitter Brian Ross always being fast when he drove the "Mystic Missile" for Bob Garbarino out of Mystic, CT - but looks like Bugs Stevens was in the car that day.
Interestingly, the #5 Advance Auto Parts Busch race ride for winner, Jimmy Hensley was not the familiar #63 Hubert Hensley mount. He was driving for Sam Ard, now out of the driver's seat and on the sidelines. In the Hubert Hensley #63 was nice guy Petty Enterprises employee, Larry Pollard, Harry Gant's son-in-law. Larry stopped driving after a horrible crash at Dover, but beat his father-in-law this day by many positions.
The Late Model Stock Car results (except for Mark Martin) read almost like a typical South Boston Speedway Saturday night LMSC rundown.
IN 1957 THERE WAS A SPECIAL FORD BUILT TO RUN IN NASCAR
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Ole Bill's got his hair slicked back, jeans rolled up, leaning on that '57 Ford looking like he's ready to join Robert Mitchum for a ride down Thunder Road!