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Today In Nascar History
April 17, 1960
Joe Weatherly wins at Wilson North Carolina Speedway after winning at Hickory the day before in a rare 2 day sweep.
April 18, 1960
Glen Wood wins from the pole to collect his first career Grand National victory. Wood would earn three of his four career victories in 1960.
Should Winston Cup drivers be limited on number of tire changes under caution like the Busch Series?
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from Buddy
from Melinda
Sorry, but I don't much care for your "signature"
closing from Dale Earnhardt. The guy's dead, right? Not really one
to be giving racing advice.
Well Melinda, since I’m the one putting this list together, I could really care less if you like my signature or not. There is an unsubscribe option if you don’t want to see it. Cuz I sure the hell ain’t gonna remove it just for you.
Is this the way a cat fight gets started?
LOL… I would say yes, but since my list people wouldn’t let me say anything else, I let the rest of em go for it!
For all you addicts out there who are going to be lost this weekend, read on!
from Tom
Sandi
For those folks going thru withdrawal due to a no race weekend, all
can come on down to Sumter SC and see the Dirt track boys go at it two
nites in a row. All classes will run hot laps and qualify Friday nite..
$5 adults $3 kids and then come on back on Sat evening and see the big
boys of dirt track run. More than 20 Late Models are expected for the Carolina
Clash, along with the Mini stock, Pure Street, Pure Stock, Pro Stock, Thunder
& Lightning and Late models run ! Last years late model Champion Terry
Caples will be hard to beat at Sumter Speedway as will Lil' Ed Gibbons
and Gerald Mintz both are former Sumter Speedway Champions..plus drivers
from all over the country making up the field, many have run against and
beat Tony Stewart too! Enjoy your ezine, keep up the good work.
Oh for more info folks can go to www.sumterspeedway.com for more information
on this weekends events..
Tom P
Wedgefield SC
ps I am not associated with Sumter Speedway ..just a helper on one
of the Pro Stock cars. Thanks
from Jeff24
RE: Tom B's Comment
Did you know that in NASCAR Ford stands for: Found On Racetrack
Dead, Form Of Rebuilt Dodge or spelled backwards: Driver Returned On Foot.
Now Chevy stands for: CHampions EVery Year.
Jeff24 Darby, Pa Loyal Chevy Fan!
LOL….good one Jeff
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ROUSH COMPLETES NO. 99 SHUFFLE
Roush Racing says the appointment of Brad Parrott as the car chief
for the team's No. 99 Ford driven by Jeff Burton completes an overhaul
of the team. The team says Pierre Kuettel, who has been car chief
for the No. 99 for five years, is assuming overall responsibility in the
shop for mechanical preparation of all No. 99 cars. "The No. 99 Citgo team
made some changes to improve the performance of their race team," said
Roush Racing owner Jack Roush. "I think these are all steps in the right
direction, and I’m looking forward to the results." Burton is 18th in the
Winston Cup point standings, with one top-five and two top-10 finishes
in the season's first nine races.
Final Nielsen Media Research figures show that Fox's broadcast of last Sunday's Virginia 500 at Martinsville Speedway drew a 5.3 rating and 15 share, up significantly from the overnight 4.6/10, according to MotorsportsTV.com. The Winston Cup race wound up as the second-highest rated sporting event of the weekend behind CBS's 8.3 for The Masters golf tournament on Sunday, which represented a drop from its 9.3 overnight rating. The Web site says the figures show that the race was viewed in 5,631,000 households by almost 8 million viewers. Since last year's race was on Fox's FX cable station, no direct comparison can be made, according to the Web story, but the 2001 race on Fox drew a 5.4/15 share.
Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., says five Winston Cup drivers are scheduled to test there next Tuesday and Wednesday. Those expected at the road course include Winston Cup points leader Matt Kenseth in Roush Racing's No. 17 Ford and teammate Mark Martin in the No. 6 Ford. Three rookies are scheduled to take part, including Chip Ganassi Racing teammates Jamie McMurray and Casey Mears, both in Dodges, and Jack Sprague in a Haas/CNC Motorsports entry. The track says the tests sessions will be open to the public.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Teresa Earnhardt is hosting the second annual Dale Earnhardt Day to take place at the headquarters of their company, Dale Earnhardt, Inc., on April 29.
The day-long event from 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. is in conjunction with Dale's birthday as a celebration of his life and racing accomplishments. Last year, more than 12,000 fans attended the inaugural Dale Earnhardt Day and this year looks to be even bigger.
Fans from many states made the journey to the home of Dale Earnhardt, Inc.'s three NASCAR Winston Cup Series teams. In addition to displays of Dale's race cars, there were also cars from his personal collection on view to the general public.
Well, this year looks to be a big deal, as well.
For the second time ever, fans will be allowed behind the walls of Dale Earnhardt, Inc. to view race cars and cars from Dale's Classic Car Collection in the Interior Showroom. Some of these have never been seen by the public and are being put on display for this special occasion.
Also, there will be a musical display in conjunction with the upcoming Dale Earnhardt Tribute Concert at Daytona International Speedway on June 28. There will be albums, autographed guitars and photos from Dale's personal collection in the Retail Showroom. See what types of music Dale enjoyed and some of the stars he and Teresa met, too.
Fans that make their way to our headquarters will get the chance to win two DEInsider subscriptions. In addition, there will be live Web Chats throughout the day with various members of DEI and the Earnhardt Family.
If you're looking for a place to buy tickets to the Dale Earnhardt Tribute Concert, look no further. Fans will be able to purchase tickets to the concert right on our grounds during the day. And, there will be exclusive Dale Earnhardt Day merchandise available, as well.
There will be giveaways from our various sponsors and photos with the Dale Earnhardt Tribute Concert car that Dale Earnhardt, Jr. drove to victory in the Busch Series race at Talladega Superspeedway. A percentage of all Retail Store sales will go the Dale Earnhardt Foundation.
Jeff Gordon is a three-time winner of the Brickyard 400. Credit: Autostock
Gordon, Montoya to swap racers for Indy test
INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials announced that four-time NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon and 2000 Indianapolis 500 winner and Formula One superstar Juan Pablo Montoya will participate in speed demonstration laps in their cars on June 11 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Gordon and Montoya will trade places at the Speedway when they take
turns driving laps around
the 2.606-mile road course in Gordon's DuPont Chevrolet Monte Carlo and
Montoya's BMW WilliamsF1 BMW FW25 car. This will be the first time that
Gordon and Montoya will be behind the wheel of a Formula One car and NASCAR
Winston Cup car, respectively.
"The Indianapolis Motor Speedway staff is excited to play host to such an event," said Joie Chitwood, senior V.P. of IMS Business Affairs. "Jeff and Juan are race car drivers who love to drive cars – fast. So it's going to be fun to watch them experiment in different cars on the road course."
Gordon will attempt to win his fourth Brickyard 400 on Sunday, Aug. 3 at the Speedway. He has competed in 12 events on the Speedway oval: nine NASCAR Winston Cup races and three IROC events. The demonstration laps will be his first laps on the IMS road course.
“There are a lot of things to coordinate to make this happen," said Gordon. "I'm just excited about this opportunity. It's something I've dreamed of, just getting behind the wheel of an F1 car and seeing what it was like. I don't plan on going F1 racing, but I would love to just get that experience."
Montoya, who won the 2000 Indianapolis 500, will attempt to become the first driver in Speedway history to win on both the famed 2.5-mile oval and road course when he competes in the fourth United States Grand Prix on Sept. 28. He is in his third season with BMW WilliamsF1 and has one career win, ten career poles and is sixth in the 2003 FIA Driver's Championship.
"The experience will be very interesting, and driving a big, heavy NASCAR car will certainly be different," said Montoya. "I don't think Jeff should be concerned that I will take away his job, but I will enjoy the opportunity of driving his Chevrolet and letting him take my BMW WilliamsF1 Team car for a drive on Indy's road course."
In addition to the demonstration laps, Montoya and Gordon will participate in a media luncheon and press conference. Fans will have free access to IMS' South Terrace grandstands for viewing.
RACING PERSPECTIVES
NASCAR's Civil War
by Steve Nash-Staff Writer
It's a sport that defines America. Fast speed, fast cars, and excitement all wrapped up in a neatly packaged three hour program. Crowds of 150,000 aren't rarities, they're the norm. The athletes are household words. Earnhardt, Gordon, Elliott and Jarrett, most anyone can tell you who they are.
But deep in the underground lair of Bruton Smith and his cronies' laboratories, a possible concoction of the greatest evil may be brewing.
Smith's racing corporation, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI), which owns Atlanta, Bristol, Charlotte (Lowe's), Las Vegas, Sears Point (Infineon) and Texas Motor Speedway's, is the second greatest owner of race tracks in America today.
The corporation that boasts the most? International Speedway Corporation, which owns everything from the old (Darlington) to the new (Chicagoland), also happens to be run by the same people who run NASCAR. And, gasp, SMI and ISC aren't good buddies on or off the track.
ISC, which is owned by the France family, gave a Winston Cup date to SMI's Texas Motor Speedway in 1996, after Bruton Smith and Bob Bahre bought out the North Wilkesboro Speedway and split the dates between two of their tracks, with Bahre giving one to New Hampshire International Speedway.
Smith enjoys his date at Texas. He and the track's president, Eddie Gossage, are ecstatic when they see 150,000 cram their 1.5-mile superspeedway to watch a 500-mile Winston Cup race. They aren't too pleased, however, when they have to wait another year to get everyone back in Texas again.
It seems SMI is calling not for one date at TMS, but two. They contend that Bill France, the same man that oversees NASCAR and whose family runs ISC, promised him a second date back in 1996.
France says no sir, you're wrong, try again; he says he told SMI he'd give them one date through the North Wilkesboro split-up.
Unfortunately, for both sides in this case, the fans aren't exactly pleased with either. ISC has been known to ban coolers and raise ticket prices on the whiff of a dollar being lost. SMI's Smith has been known for crazy ideas that don't hold much with current fans of the nation's second most popular sport.
So, why does the war reference come up? Just like the real Civil War of the 1860's, the entire fabric of an entire body was threatened and nearly destroyed. It took some last minute changes and heroic victories to not only keep the nation together, but to let it continue to prosper.
Instead of guns and soldiers, it will be documents and lawyers.
Instead of a battlefield, it will be a courtroom.
And just like America, the new pastime of the USA has the possibility to be ripped apart by a few "suits" and suits.
Long story short, a SMI stockholder, some guy named Francis Ferko, got pretty mad at TMS only having one date, and sued ISC on behalf of SMI to get that second date.
So, you may be asking, what's the big deal? Why doesn't ISC just hand over another date to SMI, and go on with the merry business?
There are many reasons, but only true good response. If ISC gave into SMI's demands, not only would they be proving that they could be bossed around by other bodies, but that their sister, NASCAR, could too. This would mean NASCAR loses any credibility and that everything they've worked on for 55 years goes down the tubes.
In 1961, Curtis Turner, (a big shot of his day for you new fans) was running short on money. He had thrown a fortune into the Charlotte Motor Speedway's construction, and needed a loan. He went to the Teamster's Union, got the OK to get a loan, but on the condition he unionize the drivers. Turner was on his way to getting NASCAR into mob ties before Big Bill France, Sr., intervened and threatened to plow up his new track, the Daytona International Speedway, if the drivers unionized.
The drivers eventually gave up on the union idea, and Turner was banned for "life" from NASCAR. Big Bill proved, even in NASCAR's early days, that they would run the company THEIR way, and nobody else’s. Ironically, the person Turner worked with to build CMS and with who they also worked into debt was none other than Bruton Smith.
NASCAR has survived Manufacturer's boycotts by Chrysler and Ford in the mid-60's, a driver's boycott of the Talladega Superspeedway in 1969, and the death and public outrage of Dale Earnhardt in 2001.
Although SMI boasts, in most people's opinions, the nicest track of them all (Charlotte) and the most popular (Bristol), they aren't the sanctioning body, and they don't need to be making sanctioning body decisions.
Once again, NASCAR is standing alone on the top. Everyone is trying to take a piece of their pie, and in essence destroy the very essence of the sport. Again, with their backs against the wall, and with nowhere to turn, NASCAR must make decisions intelligently and aggressively.
A loss in this "war" would not only damage NASCAR, but possibly bring about an all-too-likely end of the sport's current stance, which could eventually end to NASCAR going back to being a barely-known regional sport again.
So, will it be the longstanding forefathers (NASCAR) or the upstart rebels (SMI) who wins this battle? For NASCAR's, and it's fans (minus the Texan fans) sake, this courtroom battle needs to end in an ISC victory.
By the way, you're humble columnists' opinion on the whole matter? Quit bickering, and give the two dates back to North Wilkesboro.
You can reach Steve Nash at: snash@...
Report cards: First quarter grades are in
By Dave Rodman, Turner Sports Interactive
The first-quarter marking period (nine races) in the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup season is over and a competitive balance that no one could have foreseen is on display.
While nine different drivers have visited Victory Lane, there is a definite mixture across the full range of grades through the 41 full-time teams in Winston Cup.
The first marking period is always the most interesting of the school, ahem, the racing year. Trends are not yet established. Poor starts can be overcome -- as well as strong beginnings petering out.
Optimism still reigns supreme.
As nine victors in as many events would indicate, no driver and his team earned a supreme grade of A+ that would signal a degree of dominance. But some definitive statements were made in terms of first-term grading, so pull up a seat, a cool beverage and digest one would-be professor's assessment of quarter one.
Almost as good as it gets
Matt Kenseth led the standings for two-thirds of the season so far,
banking on consistency and
seven straight top-nine finishes, including his seventh career victory
-- at Las Vegas. Typically, Kenseth did not qualify well but relied on
his ongoing primo relationship with crew chief Robbie Reiser and his two-time
defending world champion pit crew, which underwent personnel changes in
the off-season but has not lost any speed.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., arguably the sport's most popular public figure, continues to cultivate his young career as he now simply shrugs off bad luck and bad performances and strives to inspire his team to come back stronger the next time. To whit, he closed the first quarter of the 2003 season by finishing first, second or third five times, which propelled him to a fighting second in the championship.
Given that he won at Martinsville to project himself into the middle of the Winston Cup championship race, Jeff Gordon can't be ignored. Along with Earnhardt, he is the only driver to lead seven of the first nine races and only an accident at Las Vegas has kept him from breathing down Kenseth's throat.
For their efforts in the first quarter of the season, Kenseth, Earnhardt and Gordon earn grades of A.
Coming and going, but from on high
Jimmie Johnson's scintillating Winston Cup career has scarcely abated
since he won in only his
13th career start, last season. Johnson has ridden along in the top 10
in the NASCAR Winston Cup standings ever since the fourth race of his career,
stretching over the last two seasons. His qualifying improved as the quarter
went on and only some youthful mistakes cost him better finishes as he
led four races and had five top-10 finishes.
Kurt Busch started 2003 only slightly cooler than he ended his four-win 2002 season. He sits third in the standings, and most significantly repeated his inaugural victory at Bristol Motor Speedway while tacking on three other second place finishes -- including back-to-back efforts to start the season. Busch has five top-10s and led five of the first nine races, and only needs to work on consistency.
Elliott Sadler has been at Robert Yates Racing for only nine races, but the young Virginian has meshed just fine with young crew chief Raymond Fox and car chief Shawn Parker. The Yates trio ended the first quarter with two straight top-five finishes, five top-10s and Sadler led at least a lap in five of the last six races.
For their work this period, Johnson, Busch and Sadler earn grades of A-.
Bump, bump, bumping along
Ricky Craven's PPI Motorsports switched to Pontiac in the off-season
before the 2003
campaign and Craven has put the Grand Prix to good use in the season's
first quarter, getting off to one of the best starts of his career with
a victory, four races led and three top-five finishes.
Just as Tony Stewart has had to adjust to the Chevrolet Monte Carlo, so has teammate Bobby Labonte. Labonte has responded with a victory at Atlanta, four top-fives and five races led to sit 11th in the championship -- a big improvement over the 16th spot he filled at the end of 2002.
With nine races in their copybooks, Craven and Labonte earn a grade of B+.
Tagging a few too many curbs
Stewart's results have been sporadic through the first quarter of the 2003 season, but as much from circumstances as failings on his team's part. An engine failure cost him at Texas and accidents delayed Stewart at Bristol and Talladega, but otherwise he's led three races, scored five top-10s and has qualified well in his new Chevrolet.
Kevin Harvick has finally been reunited with crew chief Todd Berrier,
who guided him to his 2001
NASCAR Busch Series championship, and it appears to be paying off with
Harvick's sixth place in the championship, based on two top-fives, three
top-10s, nine finishes and three races led.
Michael Waltrip has continued to mold a solid relationship with crew chief Slugger Labbe and it has made the Dale Earnhardt Incorporated entry a threat at most race tracks. Waltrip started the season winning his third Daytona 500, has led three races and has three top-five finishes. The "Big One" at Talladega kept him from climbing higher than eighth in the standings.
For persevering through some befuddling turns of events, Stewart, Harvick and Waltrip earn a grade of B.
Hmmm?
With his team's recent personnel turmoil casting its ability to compete into question, Dale Jarrett has struggled to get back into the top 10 in the standings after occupying second following his victory at Rockingham. Jarrett has led four races but has only two top-10 finishes.
Mark Martin has three top-fives and four top-10s but has led only two races. Engine failures crippled him twice and he was involved in an accident at Talladega, which is no measure of the team's ability.
Virtually no one running in the Winston Cup Series can equal Ryan Newman's sheer guts, engineer's intellect and precise car control -- but what's been lacking so far is consistency in Penske Racing's new Dodges. In the final seven races of the quarter, Newman only qualified outside the top-three once, with two Bud Poles, but outside a victory at Texas he has only three top-10s.
Terry Labonte is struggling to maintain a spot in the top 20 in the NASCAR Winston Cup standings and he and crew chief Jim Long have been putting better cars on the race track than their finishes have shown.
Greg Biffle is the leading Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidate, and while his expectations were high, even despite missing a race he is 22nd in the points, better than 18 other teams that have made all the races.
Dave Blaney started the season like gangbusters, with three top-10s and a career best third at Darlington, but as of late the team has struggled. Jimmy Spencer, on the other hand, has continued to overachieve in Ultra Motorsports Dodge, logging a couple career best qualifying performances for Jimmy Smith's team.
Ken Schrader is another that has rebuilt his career even as BAM Racing structures its future. Schrader earned the team its first top-10, at Martinsville, and his first in about two years.
For not measuring up to expectations in some cases and for exceeding them in others, Jarrett, Martin, Newman, Terry Labonte, Biffle, Blaney, Spencer and Schrader get a grade of B-.
Struggling
Sterling Marlin has struggled to achieve the consistent competitiveness he had last season for Ganassi Racing, when he led the points for 25 straight weeks. Rusty Wallace has been competitive but has been unable to post much in the way of tangible results. He's mired in a 71-race winless string marked as much by incredibly baffling circumstances as by poor performance.
Through his first nine starts this season, Johnny Benson remains the only driver in the top-33 in the NASCAR Winston Cup standings without a top-10 finish. That doesn't, however, indicate Benson's level of competitiveness.
Bill Elliott has qualified well but had only one top-10 finish in the season's first nine races. Even though Jamie McMurray won in only his second Winston Cup start, last season, he was with Marlin's championship caliber team. In 2003 McMurray has struggled with a lone top-five and two top-10s.
These guys and their teams expected much better, and for failing to deliver to this point, Marlin, Robby Gordon, Wallace, Joe Nemechek, Jeff Burton, Benson, Elliott, McMurray and Casey Mears get grades of C.
Thrashing
A strong pre-season test program has not been rewarded with exceptional results in the first quarter of the season for Ricky Rudd and the Wood Brothers.
Ward Burton has struggled in 2003 to find results but at least his team has seemed to erase parts problems from its itinerary.
As incomprehensible as it seems this early in the season, this gang could be a long jump to safety or a short hop from disaster; and while balancing that, after one quarter the results for Rudd, Kenny Wallace, Ward Burton, Steve Park, Jeff Green, Jeremy Mayfield, Jerry Nadeau, John Andretti, Todd Bodine, Kyle Petty, Jack Sprague, Mike Skinner and Tony Raines get a D.
Incomplete
For a variety of reasons the teams of drivers Larry Foyt, Mike Wallace, Brett Bodine, Derrike Cope, Christian Fittipaldi and Hideo Fukuyama get an Incomplete.
Dave Rodman is a staff writer for NASCAR.com. The opinions listed here are those solely of the writer.
RACING PERSPECTIVES
Friday Fodder
by Jeff Alan - Staff Writer
It’s Friday! Another great week for our country comes to a close! Iraq
is in the hands of civilized people. Americans are proud of their President
and our brave troops in the Middle East. And here, in our Kingdom of NASCAR,
the greatest fans in the world pause a few days to remember The One who
gave his life so that we can retire to paradise when our stewardship in
this earthly world is over. So, with a reflective and peaceful weekend
ahead, let’s dump a boatload of Friday Fodder on the ground so the adults
will have a place to hide Easter eggs for the kids.
• How does NASCAR promote an upcoming race? They carefully ‘leak’ superfluous rumors in hopes the media picks up on it, and spreads it like bile from a broadcast spreader. Earlier this week, there was the crapola about Kansas Speedway trying to get a second date. Yesterday, another rumor was started. It was much ado about nothing.
• So, here is this rumor that the Pepsi 400 is being moved to the last race of the year next season. That rumor was squelched as fast as it started even though it is still possible since the schedule won’t be released until August. In that time, anything can happen. But no problem. NASCAR, and the race, got publicity from it, and that’s all that matters, right?
• Robin Pemberton denies he has talked to Robert Yates about a job, eh? Well, I have been keeping count of this, folks, and in the past two years, 85% of crewmen and crew chiefs who denied ‘talking’ to a particular owner suddenly becomes an employee within a week or two.
• Does anybody really care if the Ford Taurus is eventually replaced?
• Note to Jimmy Spencer; Stop whining about Kurt Busch. It’s getting real old.
• On one hand, I want to applaud the guy who sent over a half-million e-mails to a FOX TV affiliate in Massachusetts as a protest for their twisted decision to air a baseball game over America’s most popular spectator sport. On the other hand, that kind of stuff is really destructive, and he deserves to be prosecuted. However, instead of a year in jail, I say, put him into a padded cell and force him to watch reruns of all the New Hampshire Cup races that have ever been run, with the sound of D.W. yelling ‘Boogity-Boogity-Boogity’ for two, straight weeks. Heck, he’d probably choose jail. I would.
• You know what worries NASCAR about TRAC? TRAC plans to eventually build their own short tracks. Two places rumored are Los Angeles and New York City. NASCAR, and the ISC have wanted a track --- any kind of track ---- in the Big Apple for years. And TRAC may beat them to the punch. Good for them, I say. I hope they pull it off.
• The winner of The Winston will get a million bucks. Those last 20 laps are going to be a real barnburner, eh?
• John Andretti is helping promote safe, teenage driving. He says “An automobile can be looked at as a weapon if it's not used right.” Good stuff, John. Why don’t you stand up and say that at the next drivers’ meeting?
• There is one thing wrong with those ‘virtual seat tours’ they have on selected web-sites. The views from your seat are not authentic. They are missing all the people who are in front of you and blocking your view. That $90 seat means nothing the moment Shamu’s brother stands up.
• THIS JUST IN: Yellow line rules will not be enforced at The Winston.
• THIS JUST IN: Yellow line rules will be enforced at The Winston.
• If anyone knows of four, large corporations with millions of extra advertising dollars to spend, please give them the phone number of Jack Roush.
• Speaking of Jack Roush, I stand and applaud his recent rants against Restrictor Plates. My only reservation is that Jack Roush once suggested that NASCAR run the V-6 engine in Winston-Cup as a solution. The way I see it, we’d save an awful lot of money, and equipment, if they would just take those restrictor plates and melt them down into something more useful.
• Do you know that, in Europe, a Baby Formula-1 team that runs two cars has one car sponsored by a tobacco company, and the other car by a smoking cessation product? I just thought I’d throw that in.
• H.B. Bailey died yesterday. What a tough racer he was during his day. I was standing just a few yards away from H.B. when he climbed from his car after being the first man to qualify for the first Brickyard 400, and the smile on his face was immeasurable. It iced the cake on his racing career. And he was so proud. I’ll never forget that moment. I’ll never forget H.B.
You can reach Jeff Alan at: Jalan@...
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