Racing History Minute - 1965 Motor Trend 500 from Riverside Raceway
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AJ had back surgery last April for chronic pain that resulted from this accident.
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New Design for Bell & Bell Vintage Modified Racing Series®
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That's a very attractive, simple but dramatic design. The only thing that bothers me is the kerning in the word VINTAGE (the spaces between letters). I hate to mention it because no nobody will be able to un-see it, but there's a break in the word as it crosses the edge of the flag.
Racing History Minute-Riverside 500 at Riverside Raceway
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I kept wondering why the showed Lorenzon's #28 when they were talking about Gurney. I wasn't following racing before Fred took that number. Although I heard Dave Pearson mentioned among the great drivers present, I don't recall hearing anything about Richard Petty. It's an interesting thing to view a time when there was no King. I recognized the names of all the other drivers except Len Sutton - 4 NASCAR races in 1963 and a middle of the pack runner in Indycars.I liked Riverside, it seems more wide open than today's road courses, more straightaway. I doubt that today's cars could handle an off-track excursion like they had back then. Cars actually had working suspensions back in the day.
EVERYBODY CANT SKI in a BUFFALO HERD
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It's ironic that after a career in auto racing that this should happen while he was on holiday. Formula One is relatively safe compared to other forms of motorsports but he raced for several years in more fragile cars before reaching that level. In addition, he retired for four years, then came back for another three. he only just retired again at the end of 2012.
I didn't like Schumacher at all, but I would never wish permanent harm on someone. He was a dirty driver but extremely good at development and testing and could take a lot of responsibility for the strength of Ferrari during his time there. That's largely why Mercedes accepted him when he came out of retirement; he was really too old to run at the front consistently.
Like many racers, it seems that he was addicted to running on the edge. He raced motorcycles after his first retirement and was an avid skier with a taste for the dangerous runs. He wasn't reckless though. I don't know if there is such a thing as a reckless German. He has lots of money and there's probably national health care so he'll be taken care of better than most retired racers.
Stock Car Racing magazine cover project
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I only read the magazine regularly through 1977 but I remember all of those covers. I wish now that I had held on to all of them. I understand that Junior collects them and pays decent cash for a good copy. The only one I saved was November 1970 because the Petty Superbird was on the cover, and I think it may be in the centerfold also.Following racing was kind of nice in those days. The season started earlier and SCR provided coverage coverage of races that had ran a month ago, so there really wasn't a time where you didn't have a race report to follow. And to get COLOR pictures of race cars when you mostly saw black & white TV and newspaper photos was really something special. the monthly magazines like car & driver didn't have a lot of NASCAR coverage with good pictures and Autoweek had grainy color photos on newsprint.
AN EPISODE OF LAW & ORDER ======= NASCAR
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Still better than Jackie Stewart and Jim McKay on Wide World of Sports. David is a good man and did well calling Formula One, but he doesn't belong in a stock car booth. He has many years of experience running the Daytona 24 and in sports car racing so that's a good fit. He can ramble on a bit and that British accent often makes him sound like a pooftah, but things will be fine.
What's gonna ruin the Rolex is all those Daytona Prototype cars getting in the way of the real LMP race cars. But it's been about the GT cars for at least a decade anyway.
Erin Andrews was clueless and didn't belong at the Daytona 500 to start with. I'm pleased that she was embarrassed by someone who also had no reason to be there. And that she couldn't find her interview subject who probably didn't belong there either. More than half of these pre-race shows is spent running ridiculous fluff that wastes everyone's time. I'd like to see them tack that wasted time onto the end of the race and do some detailed analysis and interviews that last longer than the list of sponsors to thank. Everybody knows how the game of football is played but few know what is involved in building a race car or why each race track requires different skills. If you treat the sport like figure skating, you'll be taken just as seriously.
WILL IT REALLY RETURN ?
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When Childress retires, I get the feeling that the #3 will go back into use fairly quickly by someone else. I'm really curious what will happen with the #43 though. I think that one will sit out for ten years.Unlike the 3, I think all 198 wins were with Petty Engineering and most of the history is with one driver. It should go on, but I wouldn't want to be the guy who thinks he's good enough to wear it. They can't retire it or all of the Earnhardt fans would come out of the woodwork once again.I could see it on a Wood Brothers car.
WILL IT REALLY RETURN ?
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I was never an Earnhardt fan so I certainly don't want to see the number retired because of him, even though he had dozens more wins in the car than anyone else. I like that numbers accumulate history instead of being retired. I like that older fans are reminded of David Pearson & Junior Johnson in addition to Dale. So many greats have driven the 21 and 11 that I don't know who would be honored by their retirement.
I'm a big Petty fan and I don't think his number should be retired either. I'm more upset by the loss of Petty Blue than the fact that someone else is driving a car with his number on it. Maybe Earnhardt fans miss the paint scheme more than the number also.
The fact is that most drivers are associated with several numbers during their career and it can be difficult to say which was the most significant. I think every driver wants to be able to race with the number of his childhood hero on the door and we shouldn't take away that opportunity. Ask Tony Stewart how he feels about having the 14 on his car.
Dec. 21, 1954 - Deadline Revealed for Yea or Nay on Daytona Speedway Project
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That Motorola TV cost about $260 so it would take you 473 days to pay for it excluding interest charges. Twenty-one inches was mighty big for the time, so I'd compare it to a 55" TV today. About $5.50 a day for 473 days.
December 20: A.J., Banjo, Cotton, David ... and Pauls
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O h yeah, I remember hearing that story. Reminds me of how much more relaxed things were back then. Imagine the series champion losing his ride today over a bag of ice. I'll bet Jimmy has a refrigerated truck follow him every time he goes to a picnic and a crew of twelve to manage it.