Looking back 25 years, a lot of things were different. First, gas was cheaper (average retail price back then was $1.23 a gallon) and a Big Mac cost $2.50.
The revitalization of the .625-mile oval in Wilkes County was a Sisyphean task. The facility had fallen into some disrepair after losing its NASCAR Cup Series events prior to the 1997 season, but a core group spearheaded by Speedway Motorsports officials has given the five-eighths-mile track a new life.
Let’s continue a theme I’ve played with for a while: It’s been 30 years since one legend stepped out of NASCAR on the same day — in the same race — that another one stepped in.
The inaugural Jack Ingram Memorial for late models was run June 11 at Hickory (N.C.) Motor Speedway, honoring the late, great Jack Ingram. It was a show from the word go.
Change is inevitable in everything. If you don’t change, you don’t grow, and if you don’t grow, you get passed by. That’s why you see the motorsports landscape changing in ways that 10 years ago were considered immutable and impossible.
It was also the year in which the closest Indianapolis 500 finish occurred, when Al Unser Jr. topped Scott Goodyear by a miniscule .043 seconds. Or did he?
Politics, in my opinion, belong in the public square, not the paddock. Yet, since the very earliest days of racing, there have been political aspects, just as in about every other sport on the planet.
The era of the Next Gen car is here. NASCAR’s latest iteration of the traditional stock car has certainly drawn its share of attention, and rightly so.
CONCORD, N.C. — Looking back 25 years, a lot of things were different. First, gas was cheaper (average retail price back then was $1.23 a gallon) and a Big Mac cost $2.50. I’ll pause while you extrapolate those facts and compare them to the present day. One of the other…
