Racing History Minute - March 31, 1957
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Man, that was spreading your promotional resources very thin staging a GN and a Convertible divison race at Hillsboro just 7 days apart.
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LOOKING LIKE THE OLD DAYS --and the racing too ! !
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Best short track Cup race I've seen in a long, long time.
Candy Man leading the crowd at Martinsville
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I'd love to see Danica have a good, strong run at Martinsville. Root a few folks out of the groove and throw some good blocks. Rub a little sheet metal. That would be good for her and good for stock car racing.
Racing History Minute - March 28, 1954
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Really good stuff here in this post. Great additions by Chase chronicling 3 big stock car races on the date.
Racing History Minute - March 27, 1977 - Ferrum Flash Paul Radford Sweeps Martinsville Dogwood 500 Doubleheader
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On this date - March 27 - in 1977, Ferrum, Virginia's Paul Radford joined Ray Hendrick of Richmond as the only driver to ever sweep a Martinsville Speedway doubleheader. Nicknamed the "Ferrum Flash" the veteran Radford beat Hendrick in the Modified 250 lapper and Jack Ingram in the Late Model Sportsman go.
Here's how the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star covered Paul's double triumph:
Ultimate Racing History has partial results for each event:
updated by @dave-fulton: 08/25/24 06:31:54AM
Racing History Minute - March 27, 1955
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Tim, that must have been an especially hearty band of racers and spectators - 8,000 reported - at Hillsboro that day. The front page newspaper accounts from around the country tell of a terrible winter storm that hit on Saturday, March 27, 1955, bringing destruction, crop failure and lowest recorded temperatures for the date in history.
Here;'s a couple of front page items from the Lexington, North Carolina paper. Lexington is just 75 miles away from the race site:
The Reading Eagle in Pennsylvania told the same front page story, with an AP dateline of Chicago highlighting the loss of the southern peach crop in 8 states from the March 27, 1955 freeze:
The Reading sports pages also told that unlike the racers and fans at Hillsboro, those expecting to see the big car races at Reading Fairgrounds were literally frozen out:
What would YOU do in Sam Ard's place?
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Couldn't be said any better than what Dennis Andrews has posted. God Bless.
March 26, 1989: A dismal day for Petty Enterprises
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I'll never forget that day. My old friend, Paul Sawyer, the Richmond promoter, implored Bill France, Jr. to do anything to let Richard race. He offered to increase the purse and number of starting positions. I honestly believe Paul went to his grave hurt that it was at his track, where Richard was the all-time winner, that his string of consecutive starts would end.
In the first photo, the dozer Richard is on was owned by Hugh Hawthorne of Alpine Construction, the Richmonder who has the #43 Plymouth Superbird reconstructed by RR member, Bill Biscoe and others in his den on Courthouse Road near Southside Speedway. Hugh cleared the land for Victory Junction and serves on its Board of Directors.
Click on the link below to see a post about Hugh Hawthorne and his relationship with the Petty family :
http://racersreunion.com/community/forum/general/16216/unsung-heros-attempt-to-pay-back-richard-the-petty-family