Potts’s Shots: Back to the Past
No questions this week, so we’ll do some more driving to the past with a couple of recollections.
No questions this week, so we’ll do some more driving to the past with a couple of recollections.
NASCAR’s rules mean whatever NASCAR says they mean. And there are times when some very interesting rule interpretations are applied.
“I know NASCAR used to have a rule that the winner of a race had to cross the finish line without help. With the tandem racing, what about that rule?
Racing could not survive without the support of wives, any more than it could survive without fuel or tires.
Tom in Lafayette, Ind. writes in: Are you the John Potts that was the flagman at IRP in the 1970s?
Jack Bowsher was the Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus of his day, all in one person. Jack was also the car owner and there was a factory connection.
Back in the 1970s, on Saturday during one of our two-day ASA events at Salem, John Anderson got quick a bit of damage to his car in a qualifying session.
At the 1970 Motor Trend 500 at Riverside International Raceway, Parnelli Jones destroyed the track record in qualifying, but his time was disallowed.
Q: I have noticed NASCAR racecars are carrying fewer contingency stickers. Are there fewer programs or are the teams not participating as in the past years?
Q: Are the front clips of [NASCAR] Cup cars all the same, with different decals? Do you know of a website that shows them side by side?