I listen to SirusXM radio and channel 90 is the NASCAR channel. I have listened to Chocolate Myers in the late mornings to afternoons for years and years. The 1957 race reviewed early on has his dad, Bobby Myers driving the #4 Oldsmobile for Petty Enterprises. It shows the three car wreak where Bobby Myers was killed. I didn't realize that when I commented before but it was sad and sobering at the same time. Chocolate mentions his father every so often (his uncle Billy was killed racing also not long after) but in all the years I'd not seen film or video of it.
This was my favorite track. We used to camp out at what used to be the rear entrance to the infield, before the start/finish line was moved to the opposite side. It was first come, first served for the parking when they opened the gates so we'd go like four days before the gates were opened so we could get a good spot in line. This was back in the 1980s. We'd stay drunk for days and the hell that was raised in that infield was second to none. I could write a book on what I saw in there. I was there to see Bill Elliott win the Winston Million at that track. The number "9" on the roof of his Thunderbird was accidentally painted on backward. It was good luck, apparently, as a million bucks was quite a bit of money back then and he was the first to do it. The Thunderbirds that those Elliott boys had used a 355 cu. in. Ford, Cleveland V8; a legal engine that no other Ford team was running. That thing was a powerhouse with it's Ernie Elliott massaged, free breathing cylinder heads with "canted valves". That engine along with the "Jellybean" shape of the T-birds of that time created an aero package that turned out to be hard to beat. The GM guys who had been ruling the NASCAR world for several years had some competition in that newly designed T-bird, especially the one that came from Dawsonville, GA. Darlington was a hell of a lot of fun and a Labor Day tradition.
Now we're talking! NASCAR! Darlington! Whoo, hoo!
I listen to SirusXM radio and channel 90 is the NASCAR channel. I have listened to Chocolate Myers in the late mornings to afternoons for years and years. The 1957 race reviewed early on has his dad, Bobby Myers driving the #4 Oldsmobile for Petty Enterprises. It shows the three car wreak where Bobby Myers was killed. I didn't realize that when I commented before but it was sad and sobering at the same time. Chocolate mentions his father every so often (his uncle Billy was killed racing also not long after) but in all the years I'd not seen film or video of it.
This was my favorite track. We used to camp out at what used to be the rear entrance to the infield, before the start/finish line was moved to the opposite side. It was first come, first served for the parking when they opened the gates so we'd go like four days before the gates were opened so we could get a good spot in line. This was back in the 1980s. We'd stay drunk for days and the hell that was raised in that infield was second to none. I could write a book on what I saw in there. I was there to see Bill Elliott win the Winston Million at that track. The number "9" on the roof of his Thunderbird was accidentally painted on backward. It was good luck, apparently, as a million bucks was quite a bit of money back then and he was the first to do it. The Thunderbirds that those Elliott boys had used a 355 cu. in. Ford, Cleveland V8; a legal engine that no other Ford team was running. That thing was a powerhouse with it's Ernie Elliott massaged, free breathing cylinder heads with "canted valves". That engine along with the "Jellybean" shape of the T-birds of that time created an aero package that turned out to be hard to beat. The GM guys who had been ruling the NASCAR world for several years had some competition in that newly designed T-bird, especially the one that came from Dawsonville, GA. Darlington was a hell of a lot of fun and a Labor Day tradition.
NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing)
Nice guardrails! Looks like a meat grinder.
those guardrails are useless.
You have a car going almost 200 mph it's going to go through it like a knife in butter
That Looks like the Most boring form of motorsport Ever, on par with Australian V8 Supercars, the series that ruined Australian Motorsport.
Australian V8 supercars is beast what are you talking abot?