Driven to the Past: Templates??? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Templates!!!
“Templates??? We didn’t need no stinkin’ templates!!!”
“Templates??? We didn’t need no stinkin’ templates!!!”
I was happy to hear that JEGS is stepping up to do some NASCAR sponsorship.
Bill Kimmel Sr. was leading the race and heading down the backstretch when all of a sudden his Chevelle was a big ball of flames from the firewall back.
Somebody saw a photo of me flagging a figure-8 race at the old Fairgrounds Motor Speedway and wanted to know if I was in my right mind back in those days.
The segment that TNT did last Sunday (June 13) on Davey Allison brought some memories flooding back.
One of the best comments at Michigan came from Mike Ford, Denny Hamlin’s crew chief, when NASCAR threw a debris caution as he was running away.
Back in 1972, after I became editor of The Scott County Journal and The Chronicle in Scottsburg, Ind., my reputation as a racing official preceded me.
I’ll have to admit that I enjoyed Sunday’s (May 30) Indianapolis 500-mile race as much as I’ve enjoyed any of them since they put the engines behind the drivers.
This weekend being the weekend it is, I felt it might be time for one of these columns with the Indianapolis 500-mile Race as the subject.
During the Frontstretch live blog for the Talladega race, one of our participants at the track mentioned that he had taken a ride in the pace car.
I’ve written backmarkers who obtained engines from big teams and how they seemed to spin when the big team needed a caution. This is different.
We’ve all heard stories about racecars being driven on the road. Back in the early days many were driven to the track, headlights taped up and then raced.
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