Biggest NASCAR Fire Not Involving Jet Dryer? Richmond 1973 - Thanks to TMC Collection / Brian John Hauck Photos
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Thank you both, fellas.
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Biggest NASCAR Fire Not Involving Jet Dryer? Richmond 1973 - Thanks to TMC Collection / Brian John Hauck Photos
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Yep, Bud tuned DW loose and NASCAR's panel "voted" Lennie Pond Rookie of the Year over DW. DW alwys claimed Bud was more concerned with saving his new radio out of the fire than with saving DW!
Biggest NASCAR Fire Not Involving Jet Dryer? Richmond 1973 - Thanks to TMC Collection / Brian John Hauck Photos
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I missed in the first reading of the above story the use by NASCAR of E.I.R.I. (except in rare instances) whereby they never displayed the red flag to stop the Richmond race for the 1 hour, 25 minute period it was halted.
NASCAR "contended" there was no reason to use the red flag, since the track was already blocked and the race had already stopped. That was outstanding NASCAR logic which allowed cars to be worked on during the lengthy halt and cleanup and return some of the field to the race which was only 3 laps old.
As described, Junior Johnson was not a happy camper. Our current crop of NASCAR officials obviously have nothing on the old crop for creative use of rules, lol!
Biggest NASCAR Fire Not Involving Jet Dryer? Richmond 1973 - Thanks to TMC Collection / Brian John Hauck Photos
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Thanks to our RR member TooMuchCountry / TMC-Chase and his outstanding collection of articles describing wins by Richard Petty through the years, I have found in his collection of posts an article in Southern MotoRacing so accurately describing the huge fire I witnessed at Richmond Fairgrounds on September 9, 1973 at the beginning of the Capital City 500 (won by Richard Petty, of course).
I am happy to note that my memory did not fail me and that according to the article, " Many drivers, officials and others connected with the sport described the scene as the most awesome they had witnessed in any auto racing mishap."
Our own Raytona / Ray Lamm was most likely at this Richmond race. Perhaps he has a photo he could post.
Jim Reep ... were you there? Rick Newsome finished 13th.
Bud Moore told me that he was screaming at DW on the radio all the way down the Richmond backstretch to stop. He always said that DW driving into Baxter Price's car was the stupidest thing he ever saw at a racetrack. Guess that's why DW didn't bring it up on the telecast during the Juan/jet dryer incident at Daytona..
Thank you TMC for your outstanding collection of Richard Petty History posts. This is the article from the TMC collection of posts:
SEPTEMBER 9, 1973 CAPITAL CITY 500 - Richmond, Virginia
updated by @dave-fulton: 09/10/24 12:48:10AM
St. Patrick's Day in Myrtle Beach
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Careful, ya know that green beer will make your hair turn gray and fall out!
Good News for NASCAR Hall of Fame (I think)
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On Friday, the new head of the Charlotte Regional Visitor's Authority fired the former agency head who did all the attendance "guesstimates" and was directly responsible for the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
On Monday, the new agency head honcho addressed the Charlotte City Council with a priority list. At the top of the list is increasing Hall of Fame attendance by visitors to Charlotte. Let's hope the new emphasis bolsters the ongoing efforts by the Hall of Fame.
This seems to be a step in the right direction.
Here's the local story in the Charlotte paper:
CRVA exec to focus on NASCAR Hall
Tourism agency priority is to push NASCAR attendance, council told.
By Steve Harrison
sharrison@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012
Charlotte's top tourism official said Monday he is working to fully integrate different parts of the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, and said a top priority is to convince people attending conventions to visit the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Tom Murray, who was hired as CRVA chief executive in December, gave a briefing to the Charlotte City Council about his reorganization of upper management. The biggest change is that former CEO Tim Newman is no longer with the organization.
Newman, who was demoted by the board after the council members questioned his management, had stayed with the CRVA as an executive in charge of sales. But he stepped down Friday.
The new CRVA will have six people working directly under Murray as part of an executive management team. Murray said he wants to have the different aspects of the CRVA - sales, marketing and management of city-owned venues - working together smoothly.
The CRVA was created in 2004 as a merger of Visit Charlotte and the Auditorium-Coliseum-Convention Center Authority.
"We found out there was a vision to merge the organizations, but we never completed the merger in the right way," Murray said. "We got stalled at the merger, and people were protecting their turf."
Murray said his next goal is to improve attendance at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, which lost $1.4 million in its first year. His goal is to have the racing museum break even financially or turn a profit, he said.
Murray said new lower ticket prices for local people have been successful, and that the hall may try to offer discounted tickets to convention attendees in the future. The CRVA has said it has struggled to convince convention attendees to visit the hall.
Murray also said Monday he "never considered" replacing current NASCAR hall Executive Director Winston Kelley. Kelley is now listed as a CRVA vice president in addition to heading the NASCAR hall. The other vice presidents are Ted Lewis (convention center); Bob Buchanan (human resources); Mike Crum (chief financial officer); Mike Butts (Visit Charlotte) and Gina Sheridan (marketing).
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, who lobbied for a leadership change at the CRVA last summer, said his goal has been to showcase the city.
"Despite what others may have inferred, the intent on my part all along (is to show) the world the great community that Charlotte is," Foxx said.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/02/28/3052777/crva-exec-to-focus-on-nascar-hall.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
NASCAR ban radio communications between race drivers during Daytona 500 race. How about cell phone communications?
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Jim, I remember you telling about this last year and I forget. Was it Gary Nelson?
NASCAR ban radio communications between race drivers during Daytona 500 race. How about cell phone communications?
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"Hello....."
"Yeah, Brad...., this is Juan"
"OH S---!!!!"
Listen to How It Really Was 50 Years Ago
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Yep... maybe somebody might have a 1962 GN schedule or early season program.