RR member, Monk Hair once owned Cumberland International Speedway - in addition to driving.
If anyone can shed some light on the various Fayetteville tracks I'd think he could:
MONK HAIR left a comment for Dennis Andrews
It was the paved track...that now is dirt and running uner the Fayetteville Speedway moniker.
The paved Cumberland International Speedway where we raced a time or two under NASCAR sanction in the early 70s and which also operated as Cumberland County Speedway is today's dirt Fayetteville Speedway. At the time they were running NASCAR sanctioned modified and Late Model Sportsman races at Cumberland County Speedway, a different track - Fayetteville Speedway (the cemetery) was staging outlaw dirt races.
Our RR member, Jim Streeter started racing around 1949 and I know I've read where he says he ran at Champion. He might be some help on the subject of fayetteville tracks.
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NASCAR also announced that group qualifying will be utilized for the first time for the Daytona 500.
No Daytona testing and Group Qualifying for the Daytona 500.
Let's all say it in unison: "WRECK WAITING TO HAPPEN."
Gee, still no push to pass button?
Interesting to see all team initiated testing banned. No more trips to Greenville-Pickens or V.I.R.
No Daytona testing before 500 surprises me.
Does automated pit road officiating mean no official with a stop & go paddle?
Will we have an official wiper blade sponsor for 2015?
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I suppose when U.S. open wheel racing was divided between IRL & CART you could say that CART car owners could indirectly levy fines and suspensions to drivers because of the makeup of that series.
Can you imagine if NASCAR drivers were allowed to levy fines and/or suspensions against other drivers? Would Dale Earnhardt, Sr. ever have driven enough races to win even one Championship? How about Kurt Busch? Would the other NASCAR drivers have sat Rowdy down or Smoke?
Back in 1958, Jimmy Carver , promoter of the Fredericksburg Speedway in Virginia let the drivers and owners vote on how or whether to penalize driver Al Grinnan after an on track incident. The clip below is from the July 9, 1958 Fredericksburg Free Lance Star :
Al Grinnan, who I knew as a friendly, laughing, mild mannered sort in his later years had a little more temper on the track in the 50s, it appears.
Three years earlier, in August 1955, Grinnan and his car owner Richard Rosson , proprietor of Rosson's Garage, had their feathers ruffled by the same Fredericksburg track promoter, Jimmy Carver, who'd advertised Grinnan's appearance at that weekend's race in the ad below:
However, a sports story in that same day's Fredericksburg newspaper - August 25, 1955 - told of Grinnan's car owner, Richard Rosson withdrawing the car and the reason why.
Seems rivalry between tracks for cars and fans was embedded in the discussion, too. Here's the ad Grinnan's car owner ran in the same edition of the Fraedericksburg paper as the track promoter's Speedway ad:
What do you think Brian France's reaction to such an ad from a car owner might be?
