June 7, 1953 - Louisiana Goes To Lee Petty
Stock Car Racing History
Bump Cajun Papa Lee
Forum Activity for @dave-fulton
Georgia Tech's Racing Roots, connected to Raymond Parks, Red Byron, Red Vogt
Stock Car Racing History
[quote="Dave Fulton"]
Thank you so much for sharing your article highlighting Georgia Tech's long ties to auto racing. Enjoyed it.
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Look forward to reading the next two installments.updated by @dave-fulton: 06/06/17 10:27:10PM
Bowman-Gray 250 June 5, 1971
Stock Car Racing History
Johnny, a review in the Winston-Salem Journal of Richard Miller's 2013 book, "Bowman Gray Stadium" mentions a 1972 ABC WWS telecast with David Pearson and Bobby Allison in the field. HOWEVER, since the final GN/Cup race was run at BG in 1971, that info can't be correct.
On This Day June 5, 1983 - Riverside International Raceway
Stock Car Racing History
We really enjoyed those trips from the east coast out to Riverside. I guess RC and team had to change travel arrangements, since they always booked an 11:00 pm Sunday night redeye flight out of L.A. back to the east coast. In 1983, Bud Moore continued to use the '82 shoebox Thunderbird on the road courses and short tracks as seen in Scott's photo of Earnhardt in the #15 ahead of Richmond's #27 Raymond Beadle car. I suspect that a heavy acquaintance with Mr. Daniels and Mr. Beam contributed to the lack of swimtrunks by RC's North Carolina based team!😃
On This Day June 5, 1983 - Riverside International Raceway
Stock Car Racing History
[quote="Dave Fulton"]
In December 1982, I purchased a $40 Polaroid camera at a Service Merchandise store in Greensboro, NC. Inside the camera box was a coupon from Delta Airlines for a free accompanying round trip flight anywhere in their system. So, in June 1983, my wife, Joyce accompanied me on her first trip to California thanks to the camera purchase. The photo below is of the two of us on race day morning at Riverside on June 5, 1983.
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Racing History Minute - June 2, 1961
Stock Car Racing History
A Schaefer birthday toast to TMC-Chase's Pop!
New mystery track... Maybe?
Historic Speedways and Ghost Tracks
Check this 2014 RacersReunion discussion about ghost tracks around the Dunn/Erwin area:
NASCAR = Rasslin' Confirmed
Current NASCAR
Reference this 2011 post about the 1966 season, driver Sonny Lamphear and car owner / wrestling promoter Homer O'dell:
http://racersreunion.com/community/forum/general/7553/racing-rasslin
NASCAR = Rasslin' Confirmed
Current NASCAR
How did I miss this news earlier in May? For years we have been saying that current NASCAR resembles "professional" rasslin'. Now comes word that a WWE promoter has been hired to help Richmond with its attendance woes. My, how we have sunk.
http://www.richmond.com/sports/auto-racing/nascar/richmond-international-raceway-hires-wwe-promoter-to-liven-up-fall/article_7a93143d-34b8-53bb-8e76-3dd01389e7b9.html