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.
Short Tracks
Potts’ Shots: To Cross the Finish Line
“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?
Potts’s Shots: For the Love of Their Wheelman – the Wives Who Make Racing Thrive
Racing could not survive without the support of wives, any more than it could survive without fuel or tires.
Potts’s Shots: A Flagman’s Tale or 2
Tom in Lafayette, Ind. writes in: Are you the John Potts that was the flagman at IRP in the 1970s?
Potts’s Shots: A Favor That Made a Fan
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.
Potts’s Shots: An Off-Week Story of Parnelli Jones & the “Illegal” Firestones
At the 1970 Motor Trend 500 at Riverside International Raceway, Parnelli Jones destroyed the track record in qualifying, but his time was disallowed.
Full Throttle: Don’t Look Now, NASCAR Racing Is Getting Popular Again
Darlington wasn’t the only track that saw great crowds over the weekend, like the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour and Whelen All-American Series.
Potts’s Shots: Car Crashes, NASCAR Contingency Stickers & Altercations
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?
Potts’s Shots: Remembering Smokey’s Sidecar Experiment
On one of the sites I frequent each day, somebody posted a photo of Smokey Yunick’s “sidecar” that he showed up with at Indianapolis in the ’60s.
Potts’s Shots: Figure-8 Racing & the Story of Big Bumpers
We’ve had a lot of discussion on the chat boards about the old Fairgrounds Motor Speedway and the Figure-8 division that was popular during the 1960s and ’70s.