Potts’s Shots: “Don’t Mess With an Old Man”
Only one inquiry this week, from Fritz in North Carolina. “What’s your take on the Kyle Busch/Richard Childress dust up and NASCAR’s handling of it?”
Parnelli Jones
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: The Greatest to Never Win Indy Has Gone to a Higher Victory Lane
There have been many hard luck stories from the Indianapolis 500 over the years, but the face of those hard-luck stories was very frequently Lloyd Ruby back in the day. Michael Andretti and his father Mario were notorious for hard luck at Indy, although Mario did take the checkered flag in 1969. But before the …
Driven to the Past: Parnelli Jones & AJ Foyt
I mentioned the USAC sprint cars at Salem last week on the way to telling that story about Roger McCluskey, and it brought this recollection to mind. It was in 1960 that Parnelli Jones came east with the Fike Plumbing Special out of Phoenix which was powered by a small-block Chevy, and began kicking the …