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DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHEN THEY STARTED KISSING THE BRICKS AFTER THE RACE? HOW THIS TRADITION STARTED AND WHAT YEAR WAS THE FIRST TIME. I DON'T THINK THAT I HAVE EVER HEAR ANYBODY SAY HOW THIS STARTED...I KNOW THAT JEFF WON THE FIRST YEAR BUT I GOT THE FEELING THAT HE DID NOT START THIS KISSING BUSINESS.. ANYBODY KNOW...THANKS... :unsure:
 
I remember it happening in the Indy 500 lots of times. Perhaps it's just a carry over from the open wheel days before NASCAR hit the Bricks.
 
Originally posted by TWOFOURTHEMONEY@Aug 13 2003, 02:17 PM
DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHEN THEY STARTED KISSING THE BRICKS AFTER THE RACE? HOW THIS TRADITION STARTED AND WHAT YEAR WAS THE FIRST TIME. I DON'T THINK THAT I HAVE EVER HEAR ANYBODY SAY HOW THIS STARTED...I KNOW THAT JEFF WON THE FIRST YEAR BUT I GOT THE FEELING THAT HE DID NOT START THIS KISSING BUSINESS.. ANYBODY KNOW...THANKS... :unsure:
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Thats a good quesion that I don't know. ;)
 
Dale Jarrett was the first to kiss the bricks after hiswin there in 1998 I belive it was. I don't know how it started but I think Jarrett was just showing his respect for the history of the track!
 
I guess I never really thought about who or how kissing the bricks got started. They kissed them in open wheel prior to 1998, right? So it probably is a carry over from that.
 
I don't recall that the Indy 500 folks ever kissed the bricks.....maybe but I don't remember it.

To the best of my knowledge the tradition was started by Dale Jarrett in 1996 and has become accepted as a stock car tradition at Indianapolis.
 
Kissing the bricks was not a tradition for the 500! ther might have been a few trhat did do it but it never became a tradtion untill DJ did it in 1996!
 
Originally posted by wlfyk62@Aug 14 2003, 03:31 PM
Ricky Rudd was the first ever driver to kiss the bricks.
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Hmmmm.....

How to phrase this??

No, he was not.
 
Originally posted by HardScrabble+Aug 15 2003, 07:13 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (HardScrabble @ Aug 15 2003, 07:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--wlfyk62@Aug 14 2003, 03:31 PM
Ricky Rudd was the first ever driver to kiss the bricks.
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Hmmmm.....

How to phrase this??

No, he was not. [/b][/quote]
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Well said, HS.
 
Originally posted by HardScrabble@Aug 14 2003, 07:48 AM
I don't recall that the Indy 500 folks ever kissed the bricks.....maybe but I don't remember it.

To the best of my knowledge the tradition was started by Dale Jarrett in 1996 and has become accepted as a stock car tradition at Indianapolis.
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Nope Happy...
 
Well now I don't know who kissed the bricks first. Maybe someone needs to ask Jeff Hammond. He knows everything......
 
Originally posted by TWOFOURTHEMONEY@Aug 15 2003, 03:46 PM
Well now I don't know who kissed the bricks first. Maybe someone needs to ask Jeff Hammond. He knows everything......
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Nah..... them TV people are too busy kissing Helton's ass. :wacko:
 
Guido, You are probably right, but at this rate I will never find out who kissed the bricks for the first time and why??? I looked through all of my racing books and nothing on the kissing business..... :huh:
 
Ricky Rudd was the first to "kiss the bricks" following his Brickyard 400 win in 1997. As to why, well, we assume it was just the excitement of winning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It has since become tradition for the winner of the Brickyard 400.
 
Ricky Rudd was the first to "kiss the bricks" following his Brickyard 400 win in 1997. As to why, well, we assume it was just the excitement of winning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It has since become tradition for the winner of the Brickyard 400.


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Wlfyk62, Thanks to you my mission here is now complete. thanks again. Looking foward to the race tomorrow. I guess you know who I am pulling for.... :)
PS: Would never have guessed that it was Ricky, but I am taking your word..
 
My Answers are true becuase i went to that Brickyard 400 when Ricky Rudd drove the number 10 Tide Ford Thunderbird. plus i got my answers also from IMS personal :salute:
 
Came across this article also here. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...9-2003Aug1.html. Scroll down to read this.

Said Dale Jarrett, who started the tradition of kissing the yard of bricks that mark the track's start-finish line after winning the 1996 Brickyard 400: "When we came here, it gave a lot of credibility to our sport that for the first time in the history of this hallowed speedway, they were going to allow something besides IndyCars here."
 
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