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Charlotte Official Who Over Estimated Hall of Fame Attendance & Miscalculated Budget Arrested, Charged with DWI, Hit & Run

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Well, isn't this a nice preview of the Hall of Fame Inductees announcement? Tim Newman, the man at the Charlotte Regional Visitor's Authority who screwed up so much connected with the NASCAR Hall has been arrested after rear ending a young girl on Interstate 77 in Charlotte.

Newman left the scene after his arrest and "blew" a .14, twice the legal alcohol limit in North Carolina. This is the same guy Humpy Wheeler wrote a glowing endorsement for in the Charlotte paper just before he was terminated.

Of course, Mr. Newman collected $28,905 on March 3rd of "accrued" vacation pay and continues to be paid $9,461.54 bi-weekly and gets a $694.58/month car allowance from my tax dollars. Maybe the "unemployed" Mr. Newman can use that car allowance to fix the car of the young lady he rear ended.

I appreciated Tim Leeming's "Legendtorial" last night regarding the Hall of Fame, but Tim doesn't live here and have to pay for this crap.

Am I going to that damned NASCAR Hall of Fame? Not until they get their act together and quit fleecing the citizens of Charlotte. The Charlotte Regional Visitor's Authority and the crooks who have been associated with it and the Hall of Fame make me sick.

Newman, ex-CRVA chief, charged with DWI, hit-and-run

Tim Newman' Arrest Photo

The Charlotte Observer

Staff Reports
Wednesday, May. 23, 2012

Former Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority chief executive Tim Newman was charged Tuesday with driving while impaired.

Records show Newman was arrested late Tuesday and also charged with hit and run property damage and failing to give information, according to the website of the Mecklenburg County jail.

The website says he was arrested by the N.C. Highway Patrol, but a sergeant for the Mecklenburg County office was not immediately available on Wednesday.

Newman had been the chief salesman and promoter of Charlotte in his role as head of the CRVA. But he had been moved into an executive sales position in December when the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority board hired Tom Murray to replace him. In late February, Murray announced that Newman was leaving, saying they both came to a decision that he would move on.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/23/3261809/newman-ex-crva-chief-charged-with.html#storylink=cpy

updated by @dave-fulton: 04/02/17 10:13:45AM

larry manning cup driver-1942-2012

Stock Car Racing History

Larry Manning posted 3 top-5s in just 5 starts during the 1964 Grand National season.

larry manning cup driver-1942-2012

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Thanks again, Richard. I remember the Thompson hardware store now. When Ben fell and died, my aunt, Julia Goode sold the building that became the Thompson hardware site and moved back into the big farm house.

larry manning cup driver-1942-2012

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Thanks for the info Richard. Couldn't remember the name of that restaurant to save myself. Had no idea it was owned by the Wilkersons. Small world.

larry manning cup driver-1942-2012

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Richard... a curiosity question....

I had a great uncle by marriage - Ben Goode - who was a plumber and married very late in life to my great aunt, Julia. He had a plumbing business in Chesterfield County on Broad Rock Road across from Branch's Baptist Church and also owned a big farm house next door. They lived in quarters above the plumbing shop and he fell to his death down steps leading to the basement when I was just 1-2 years old. Later they built a little strip shopping center sometime in late 50s/early 60s across Broad Rock Rd. that had a Ben Franklin Store and just down from them a restaurant was built and operated for some years called Iron Skillet or Flat Iron or some such.

Wonder if Ben Goode the plumber could have been kin to "Little Charlie" Goode?

larry manning cup driver-1942-2012

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Stock car driver Larry Niles Manning Sr., dies at 70
By: Ellen Robertson | Richmond Times-Dispatch
May 25, 2012

CHESTERFIELD, Va. --

In March 1963, 21-year-old Larry Niles Manning came into NASCAR headquarters in Richmond and wanted to join NASCAR's elite Grand National Class of drivers.

"He had never driven in any kind of race," said Joe Kelly, a local TV and radio figure who hosts the weekly "Let's Talk Racing" radio show with his wife, Ruth.

"He was driving a 1962 Chevrolet sponsored by Adams Heating & Air Conditioning that was bought and raced the year before."

The race he was going to was at Occoneechee Speedway in Hillsboro, N.C., a 1-mile dirt oval and one of the toughest tracks in America.

"All the top drivers were there Richard Petty, David Pearson, Cotton Owens, Glen Wood, Joe Weatherly, the 1962 National Cup champion. This event was done by time trial and they didn't think he (Larry) would do anything.

"A NASCAR man told a driver, 'Larry Manning's going to beat you today, Jack.'" They made a $100 bet.

In his first NASCAR race, Larry Manning Sr. finished eighth against the best racers in the world, Kelly said. The class now is called Sprint Cup.

Mr. Manning, who ran his last race in 1982 at Southside Speedway, died Wednesday at 70.

The Chesterfield County resident, who owned Pyramid Heating and Air Conditioning, will be honored at a funeral at 11 a.m. today, Friday, at Morrissett Funeral and Cremation Service, 6500 Iron Bridge Road. Burial will be at Dale Memorial Park.

"He had 10 Top 10 finishes and two Top 5," Kelly said.

"He was on a very underfunded team. There were no sponsors at all, just Mr. and Mrs. Adamses' name on the car. He ran out of his pocket. He finished 29th in points that year and was rookie of the year.

"The bad thing was that he didn't have any money to go further. He ran on his own. He went to Daytona and finished 15th. He went down and ran with the best, when they had 50 cars."

In later years, he ran Late Model Series cars, especially at Southside Speedway and South Boston Speedway.

"The guy could look at something and learn fast. I had a lot of respect for Larry Manning," Kelly said.

Survivors include his wife of 38 years, Lorraine Manning; a daughter, Marie "Dumplins" DeMay; three sons, Chris "Ray Ray" Manning, Nate "Murphy" Manning and Larry "Speedy" Manning Jr.; a sister, Joyce Musselman; and eight grandchildren.
erobertson@timesdispatch.com (804) 649-6115

larry manning cup driver-1942-2012

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Thanks, Ray, for the notification.

Godspeed, Larry.

He raced mostly in Bob Adams cars out of the Richmond area.

The heart shaped decal on the C-post in your picture is from the business of a distant relative by marriage, Bob Hart and Hart Auto Glass, behind the Krispy Kreme Donut Shop off West Broad Street across from Willow Lawn Shopping Center in Richmond. I remember being excited when I saw it on the car at the Richmond Fairgrounds.

Another journeyman driver has completed the final journey. Their days have passed with the locked in points system. Sure do miss those days. Thanks, Larry, for being part of what gave me so much pleasure.

Nascar's deal with the EPA

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They're gonna have to stop all those green-white-checkers finishes, lol! Too many green flags.

Nascar's deal with the EPA

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The OCSPP. Y'all got a branch of that in Sintown?

Nascar's deal with the EPA

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My stomach is turning green as NASCAR lines its pockets with green.