Dave,
You misinterpreted my statement. By "no big deal," I meant more that a Cup team winning was "to be expected." I love the links and articles you have been posting on this topic as I have learned a great deal from them.
Dave,
You misinterpreted my statement. By "no big deal," I meant more that a Cup team winning was "to be expected." I love the links and articles you have been posting on this topic as I have learned a great deal from them.
A year before Derrike Cope's 1985 Washington 500 Winston West win in our 7-Eleven / George Jefferson Ford at Evergreen, I brought Jefferson and Derrike from Yakima, Washington to Richmond to try to qualify for the 1984 Wrangler 400 Cup race. I gave them $10,000 extra, promoter Paul Sawyer furnished motel rooms and Leo Mehl at Goodyear gave us our tires. The chassis was an old, used up former Elmo Langley one that was welded and pieced together. Cup director, Dick Beatty requested that the car not be brought to another Cup event other than Riverside, but he let it race. They made the field, as evidenced by the photo below of our #07 racing Bill Elliott.
