Waid’s World: Dale Earnhardt’s Christmas Parade With a Nervous Driver
Steve Waid recalls a Christmas parade spent with the 1980 Cup champion.
Steve Waid recalls a Christmas parade spent with the 1980 Cup champion.
From that notable achievement – Busch was the first driver to win a championship under a playoff format – the driver from Las Vegas has gone on to experience a career littered with controversy and incidents.
Who would be the driver to be crowned the last Winston Cup champion?
Complaints about cars NASCAR legislated in the past are nothing new.
By the end of 1986 his achievements had raised his status to that of superstar. And he relished all of it.
Was Richard Petty’s 1,000th start actually his 1,000th start in NASCAR’s top series?
As soon as the 1986 race was over, controversy erupted. Johnson and Waltrip were furious.
The 1986 NASCAR Cup season ranks as one of the most compelling in stock car racing history for several reasons.
Ernie Irvan was given a 10 percent chance to live.
The summer event at Talladega Superspeedway was unique, part of Steve Waid’s fond memories covering the circuit as NASCAR’s growth began in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Firecracker 400 meant summer days at the beach at Daytona.
Nashville hosted one of the most unusual, controversial — and in the case of the sanctioning body, embarrassing — events in the sport’s history.
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