He rubbed some people wrong, but I always liked him. And everybody admired him. Greer Smith was the last to work for him. Once a week for most of his career, Benny would drive to Randleman to meet with the Pettys, Lee and Richard, and crew chief Dale Inman. With those walking crutches propped against the wall, Benny gave Richard as much as Richard gave Benny.
The cover photo is of Benny on a four-wheeler with his dachshund. Reading it is like reading a racing history book, but without less-important stuff like who won and lost. Junior Johnson, of course.
Earnhardt, of course. A heap of Pettys, of course. In one story, Benny writes about his first meeting with Earnhardt, in November at Atlanta. The two men, journalist and race car driver, cried right there. Years later, in , after Dale Earnhardt Jr. We were open to him because he was open to us. With two laps remaining in the Southern , on a degree day in Darlington, David Pearson led, Dale Earnhardt was second and Benny Parsons third.
All three glanced the wall after hitting oil going into Turn 1. Earnhardt and Parsons almost immediately lost their places, but Pearson kept going with a damaged car, hoping to hold on and get to the start-finish line and the race-ending yellow flag first. In a flash, though, Terry Labonte flew past him on the low side of the track and put the nose of the car over the line for his first career victory. The next day, Labonte was in a field in Richmond County with Benny for the first day of dove-hunting season.
It starts with a scene at an airport in Billings, Montana, in Terry and Benny had just finished a four-day hunting trip on a private ranch, and when they pulled the rental car up to the airport to catch their flight home, they accidentally locked the keys inside.
You have a pistol. The 1. Left to the buzzards when the Cup Series chased the almighty dollar and the promise of new fans a couple of decades ago, Darlington has become a lifeline to rescue NASCAR from the brink starting Sunday. It goes back with our roots. Drivers love to race there and want to win there as well. President Steve Phelps and others have trumpeted the ancillary benefits of enjoying a much brighter spotlight Sunday.
NASCAR and many other series essentially have two options: Race as soon as humanly possible, or risk extinction by remaining idle.
But the sanctioning body will be flying as blindly into its first race without fans in 72 years as the drivers will be entering Turn 1 without practice or qualifying.
What better place in my mind to come back racing than a track that is so steeped in history and tradition? This may be a glimpse into the future of how NASCAR races are run moving forward without practice or qualifying , moving from this date to and This little place in South Carolina has changed the sport two times. The track allegedly earned the moniker The Lady in Black because the night before the race the track maintenance crew would cover the entire track with fresh asphalt sealant, in the early years of the speedway, thus making the racing surface dark black.
Brasington, a local businessman, had a lofty vision that most of his peers dismissed as utterly ridiculous — building a paved superspeedway in Darlington. But is Logan Lucky actually a true story? The film is an original story that was written by first-time screenwriter Rebecca Blunt.
No one has been able to confirm that Blunt actually exists.
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