[3829]

This is any Trivia about the Nascar Cup Series. You can ask any trivia question and the first person to answer it right gets to ask the next question and so on.

The first question is Whch Driver has the most Wins in a single Season and how many win was it?

[Team Yates]

Richard Petty * 27 wins in a season - 1967

[3829]

that right Team Yates

your turn to ask the next question

[lilsexy08]

I just saw this thread. I know I haven't guessed anything yet but I have a piece of trivia. Johnny Hayes-who was his sponsor? Also did he drive for Ford, Chevy or Dodge? Ponder on that one!!!!!!!

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by lilsexy08

I just saw this thread. I know I haven't guessed anything yet but I have a piece of trivia. Johnny Hayes-who was his sponsor? Also did he drive for Ford, Chevy or Dodge? Ponder on that one!!!!!!!

I believe you're referring to J.T. Hayes? If you are, I believe the correct name, as of 1992 is Terri O'Connell. I read that there was a plumbing reconfigurement done on J.T. As far as the car J.T. drove, he raced in 1990 so it was either a Ford, Chev, Pontiac or Buick. My guess'd Chevie.

[LSC9901]

By: Jane Grau
Creative Loafing
Charlotte, NC
Saturday, July 19, 1997


FORMER RACE CAR DRIVER J.T. HAYES IS A WOMAN NOW -- AND LOVING IT!

As racer J.T. Hayes, the subject of this article won over 300 regional
and national championships in go-kart, midget, and sprint racing, and
then competed in NASCAR Winston Cup before having sex reassignment
surgery in 1992. Coming out in Creative Loafing is the latest turn in
a life full of perilous curves and wide-open straightaways.

In her biography, Pink, Blue & Checkered (due out in 199
Terri O'Connell recounts a Huck Finn childhood when, as a boy, she was
told by the old racers she was going to be the next A.J. Foyt. Trouble
was, she really wanted to be Marilyn Monroe. Even so, she excelled in
the extrememly dangerous sport, hobnobbing with movie stars and earning
$100,000 a year, until she finally gave up the career she loved to find
peace and harmony within herself.

O'Connell's story puts gender bending slap in the middle of the
country's newest Mom-flag-and-apple pie pastime, motorsports, causing
us to question assumptions about masculinity, femininity and heroism.
Between go-karts, motorcycles, boats -- anything with a motor on it --
motorsports is touted as the biggest spectator sport in the world.
It's also said to be the last clean sport on earth, untainted (except
locally by Tim Richmond) by drug or sex scandals. The racers' wholesome,
family-oriented, masculine images are kept under tight rein by a handful
of powerful men. Neither they nor their fans cotton to people messing
with their family, their church, their favorite pastime. They especially
don't like the suggestion that things aren't really what they appear.

O'Connell contacted CL last fall after reading a review of an
art exhibit entitled "Where Do Queers Come From?" She agreed with the
theme of the show, which was that the only thing we know for certain
about the cause of gender anomalies is that it's a random roll of the
genetic dice. To make a point about the mistakes people make about
transgenderism, stemming mainly from sensational depictions by the
media, O'Connell challenged us to pick her out in the crowd when we met
for coffee.

It was impossible -- her long blonde hair, Ann Talylor wardrobe,
and soft voice belied any notions we might have had about Adam's apples
and big hands. In fact, O'Connell has been mistaken at various times
for Marlo Thomas, Michelle Lee, Diane Pennington, and, most recently in
Daytona, Kathie Lee Gifford.

So how the racing world handles the news that one of their own,
one of their big, brave, ballsy men is really a petite, shapely,
attractive woman remains to be seen.....


Creative Loafing: Between RuPaul and Lady Chablis, transgenderism
has lost its shock value. What makes you so different?

Terri O'Connell:Well, I don't know any transies who look
like real women and are national racing champions. I designed and built
20 race cars, then drove the hell out of them. Nobody ever mistakes me
for a man now, however. It's no a ho-hum story, it's an incredible journey.

[Quality88]

To quote Hank Hill.... "Dear God"

[LSC9901]

Just doing a little further reading about him/her. Supposedly she was going to make a comeback in 2005. Does anyone know if she did?

[3829]

i dont know of any comeback, but i know that it is kind of sick to have a sex chang.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

Just doing a little further reading about him/her. Supposedly she was going to make a comeback in 2005. Does anyone know if she did?

Darn! I thought that I was one of a small handful of fans who knew this story!? I am truely impressed with the knowledge of you folks in this forum. I'm glad I found it.

IRT J.T./Terri's "comeback, I read somewhere (I believe it was the Indy Star the week of BY400 #1) that an attempt to return to racing was comtemplated but sponorship and/or the ability to find a team was a problem. That was the last I have heard or read on the subject. Going out on a limb here, but I doubt that this was a comeback that NASCAR would have embraced. I remember how Tim Richmond was villified by NASCAR in... 1986? Personally, I'll claim ambivolence on the subject.

[Bob Tanner]

Here is my trivia offering, though it doesn't deal with Winston Cup:

When and where was the first night major NASCAR race on a super speedway held?

Hint: At the time any track a mile or longer was considered a super speedway

[TN_Gal]

Pepsi 400

October 17, 1998
Daytona, FL

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by TN_Gal

Pepsi 400 October 17, 1998 Daytona, FL

Sorry. You're a looooong way off. Decades, as a matter of fact. But, that was a good try.

[LSC9901]

Charlotte

1960

Winner was Speedy Thompson

Race was National 400

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

Charlotte 1960 Winner was Speedy Thompson Race was National 400

That was an excellent guess, but... you're not quite there. If no one gets it by tomorrow evening, I'll post the answer, along with references.

You did jog my memory a bit with your guess. I did some researching and found out Speedy won the '60 Charlotte race you mention driving for the Wood Bros. I never realized he ever drove for them.