2026 Daytona 500 Countdown

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StandOnIt said:
Curtis Turner leads Glenn Wood at Bowman-Gray.
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OMG, look at those numbers... placed on the front fenders... LOL. This is photographic proof that Rob Kauffman and the RTA were working behind the scenes at least as early as 1956!

No wonder the Convertible Division did not survive... the numbers were in the wrong place! LOL.
 
LewTheShoe said:
OMG, look at those numbers... placed on the front fenders... LOL. This is photographic proof that Rob Kauffman and the RTA were working behind the scenes at least as early as 1956!

No wonder the Convertible Division did not survive... the numbers were in the wrong place! LOL.
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I was wondering if somebody would say something lol. Big as Dallas, there they are.
 
LewTheShoe said:
Red Byron won Nascar's first championship, 1949.
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Fireball Roberts...
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Bobby Allison...
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Ward Burton...
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Joey Logano...
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Ward Burton was one of my favorites. I think everybody enjoyed his accent, myself included. But the first thing that comes to my mind was his technical skills at Darlington and Rockingham. He knew how to make a car work at those tracks, and he was always a racer's racer to me.

So many fun things with the accent, the skills, the conservationist. He also seemed like an outsider that wasn't into the corporate polished word-smithing thing.

I am just a fan on the outside, and hearsay is about all I know: So maybe he was to loyal to Bill Davis for his own good, and to uncouth for the board rooms, I can only wonder about those things. But I do know he was one of the most interesting personalities and his qualities are often mentioned.

I wish there were more stories like his for the racing world.
 
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