seeking picture(s)
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Hope you will share the Bud Walmsley/Lennie Pond photo with us here if you are successful.
Forum Activity for @dave-fulton
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seeking picture(s)
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I have sent both a personal e-mail and a note on our message board to my old friend Joe Kelly / Let's Talk Racing With Joe, Ruth & Brandan Kelly Radio in Richmond asking if he might have a pic or offer a suggestion. Joe is also a former Southside Speedway promoter and has access to many old pictures. I hope he can steer you to a photo of Lennie in the Bud Walmsley sportsman coach.
Where to Find the Best Racing Writers in the Business
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Many of you may already be aware of the internet motorsports site Racin' Today . com , but I just now discoverd it and now I know where all the best former beat racing writers in the business are now posting.
When I say the best, I mean the absolute very best in racing. These are folks I spent many years with when they covered NASCAR and other racing beats for wire services and daily papers.
This site was set up to provide an outlet for seasoned, well respected motorsports journalists to file stories as the dailies cut back on sending reporters to racing.
Two of the lead writers were the Associated Press and United Press International wire service racing writers when I worked in the press box.
Anyhow, if you want a place to check stories posted by the very best that ever set foot in a NASCAR garage and press boxand not rumors, check out
The first three writers have been good friends of mine for many years and they are the real deal.
List of Staff Writers :
MIKE HARRIS - the former Associated Press (AP)Racing writer who moved from his offices in Rockefeller Center, NYto Wake Forest, NC.
DEBWILLIAMS - former Canton, NC resident who cut her teeth at the Asheville, NC tracks before becoming the beat racing writer for United Press International (UPI) and then was hired by Robert Griggs to spearhead Cup Scene and Illustrated .
LARRY WOODY - Former beat writer for The Tennessean and a personal favorite of Dale Earnhardt's. Be sure to read his story contrasting his first Earnhardt interview to the behavior of the Busch clan and Tony Stewart.
JONATHAN INGRAM - Highly respected Atlanta writer who has covered for many publications over the years.
RICK MINTER
JEFF HOOD
JOHN STURBIN
JIM PEDLEY
What a delight to find REAL racing writers who have been there and know what they're talking about instead of this bunch of internet rumor sites featuring folks who have never met the drivers or been inside a racetrack.
updated by @dave-fulton: 04/01/17 11:46:32PM
Smoke & Zip Together Again
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Here's hoping Darian Grubb & Denny Hamlin finish ahead of this bunch every week. Oh, well.
Dec 16, 11:48 AM EST
Stewart hires Zipadelli as competition director
By JENNA FRYER
AP Auto Racing Writer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Greg Zipadelli is reuniting with Tony Stewart as competition director at Stewart-Haas Racing.
Zipadelli received his release from Joe Gibbs Racing earlier this week. He's been crew chief of the No. 20 at JGR since 1999 and spent 10 years with Stewart.
Zipadelli guided Stewart to the NASCAR championship in 2002 and 2005. He has spent the last three seasons as crew chief for Joey Logano.
JGR then selected Jason Ratcliff as the new crew chief for Logano.
Ratcliff spent the last seven years as crew chief for JGR's No. 18 Nationwide Series team. He led that team to 30 victories and the owner's championships in 2009 and 2010.
Stewart has been without a competition director since early summer and has long believed to have been holding out for Zipadelli.
2011 The Associated Press.
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
INDYCAR Report on the Dan Wheldon Accident Investigation
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Amen, PK. There is no worse race on the NASCAR schedule than IMS. Instead of moving the Nationwide Series to IMS, a great race show would be Cup & Nationwide on back to back nights at IRP.
INDYCAR Report on the Dan Wheldon Accident Investigation
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I'd love to see it happen. When we brought the NASCAR Tour Modifieds to Richmond in the 90s and paired them with USAC Silver Crown we drew huge crowds for a couple of years. The crowds at the RIR Indy Car shows were only 18,000 - 20,000, versus 60,000 for a Busch race.
INDYCAR Report on the Dan Wheldon Accident Investigation
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I don't think the Indy cars will ever be successful drawing a crowd big enough to cover the payoff at any venue not in a large metro area.
INDYCAR Report on the Dan Wheldon Accident Investigation
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One thing that has struck me is IndyCar placing much of the blame on the fact that the track was multi-groove and pretty much stating that they need to be racing at single groove venues.
Maybe IndyCar would advocate returning to Darlington. The champ cars looked pretty single groove in this old Darlington photo:
