[I Flip For Carl]

Since I'm new I would like to find out who everyone's favorite driver's are in Cup,Busch ,Truck's.

Who was your first favorite driver?

What year did you become a Nascar fan ?

What Tracks have you been to an what is your favorite?

Also if you don't mind I'd like to know your first name ,if you don't want to say thats okay


As for me

CUP~Carl Edwards and David Gilliland

BUSCH~Brad Coleman and Mike Wallace

TRUCKS~Todd Bodine and Chad McCumbee

I do have other favorite's in all 3 series ,but these are my top favorite's and btw of course I pull for Carl in the Busch series ,but these are just my favorite Busch driver's that don't run in Cup .

My first favorite driver was Davey Allison .I became a Nascar fan and chose Davey as my driver in 1993

I have been to Talladega (2),Charlotte(3) ,Atlanta (1),Bristol (3) My favorite is Talladega

My name is Terri

[jks812]

Cup- Dale Jr
Busch-Bobby Hamilton Jr
Trucks- Todd Bodine and Ron Hornaday

My first driver's were Richard Petty and Cale Yarborough.I became a fan back in the 70's. I have not went to any race live.
And my name is Kathy

[Racer Duck]

hi terri, aka flip.

my first favorite driver was my brother, Clarence Lovell (1972-73) he introduced me to circle track racing after I got out of the navy in '67 so guess that's when I became a NASCAR fan.

right now my favorite driver is my son, but he doesn't race NASCAR. he worked on Rich Bickle's CTS and Busch team in '98 & 99. we have a couple late models we race in Texas and plan to make a trip to Mobile/Pensacola area to race next year (wanted to do it this year but he's recovering from a ruptured disk so we're taking it easy right now.)

I like a lot of drivers and will root for which ever one "feels" right at the time. there's a few I don't like and won't take up time and space with their names...

like you, I enjoy just about any kind of motorsports - if it's got a motor, I probably have seen it in competition (personally or on TV)

I've been to Texas, Charlotte, Dover, Trenton, and Texas World plus a plethora of short tracks (not necessarily NASCAR related.) drove past Talladega and Atlanta on my way to visit son in NC, but they weren't open at the time. no favorite .. I like them all.

my mama called me Charles, but most everyone else calls me Charlie or "hey you!" "Salt Shaker" is my CB handle and Racer Duck is my online moniker...

[I Flip For Carl]

Thank you Kathy & Charlie . Nice to meet both of you !

Racer Duck aka Charlie I like Richie and miss not seeing him on the circuit .I got the chance to meet him in Atlanta in '96.

One thing I can say for sure about Rich is that he is fearless and aggressive. I watched him in a race one time where he drove right up on a guy's fender well .LITERALLY!

I didn't take this picture and wish that I 'd had a digital camera back when I met him .

[Racer Duck]

my son tells me that Rich has one of the most awsome short track records around .. something like 500 wins. he's the only driver to win the Snowball 5 times. I've got a picture of the team (with my son in it) taken later in the night after his 5th win. my SLM is one of his Snowball cars.

he also collects: beer cans and mopar muscle. he has an extensive collection of beer cans, some very rare, at his home on Lake Norman. while my son was working for him (he was the only "mechanic" in the place, so was responsible for keeping the mopar muscle running well in addition to his team duties) Rich bought a 67 hemi 'Cuda with less than 10K miles on it - heard he paid upwards of $70K. that was my son's introduction to hemi's.

Rich turned down a lucrative Dodge offer for CTS in '99 while he was racing Busch. Said he felt it would be moving "backward" .. had he taken it, he would probably have been "promoted" when Dodge setup their Cup teams. I think that started his downhill slide. I see his name in an occasional CTS race, but think he's pursuing other interests. thought we would see him last year, but we had to cancel our trip at the last minute.

[tkj24]

Hi Terri
I imagine you can guess who I am for from my name. LOL. I have been a Nascar fan since the early 70's. I was only a teen-ager back then. I was a Richard Petty fan till the day he retired. Yes I was there to see his last race and Jeff's first cup race.

I have been to Bristol(my home track), Atlanta, Daytona, Talledega, Richmond, charlotte, Darlington, I was at the inagural Brickyard 400 to see Jeff win it, Martinsville, Michigan, The Rock and N. Wilksboro also. If there are more I can't think of them now. Mostly just the southern tracks.

I also enjoy riding horses. I have one horse and 1 dog. My name is Tammy.

In Busch and Truck racing I usually just enjoy good racing. I am going to see all 3 races at Bristol in August. I also enjoy dirt track racing.

[BringBackWilkesboro]

Hmmm... Favorites and miscellanious. I'll try to keep it short.

My first favorite:

It's been a while since I've had a clear cut favorite, but I've had many in my day. Most of were guys my grandfather worked for and was able to get me close to, but in the later years, I just liked em cuase of the type of racer they were. I've posted many of these before.

The first one I remember being drawn to was Darel Daringer, but I just can't remember why. I was only 5 years old in '66 when he had his most successful season, my grandfather never worked with any of his teams and there was very little exposure to get my attention on him. The only connection I recall was the fact that I was living in North Carolina at the time and we were in weaverville for a race he won in '66.

The first guy my grandfather got me to watch was Dick Hutcherson when he worked briefly with John Holman and Ralph Moody. He also spent time with Tom Friedkin, Jim Paschal as the driver in the late 60s, and then Neil Bonnet with Nord Krauskopf for part of the '77 season.

From there I became a fan of Pete Hamilton and Cale Yarborough for various reasons, and Tim Richmond is the last actual favorite I had. I also like Rick Crawford in the truck series.

Tracks:

My dad brought us to many tracks in the southeast, but my favorites were Asheville-Weaverville Speedway and of course, North Wilkesboro Speedway.

First name is Rick by the way.

[Bob Tanner]

My alltime favourite was Tim Richmond. I also have rooted mightily for Junior Johnson, Fred Lorenzen, and Curtis Turner.

BGN favourite was, hands down, Sam Ard.

CTS, if I pull for anyone I pull for my homeboy, Rick Crawford.

There just isn't any of the current crop of drivers whom I give a hoot about. Basically anyone who (a) speaks his mind, and (b) has open wheel history is a little ahead of the remainder.

Tracks you'd be familiar with: Daytona (4 - Beach -1) Michigan (3), Pocono (1), Indianapolis (NASCAR-1, Indy cars - around 15 or 16 ), Bristol (asphalt - 4 concrete -0), Charlotte (2), Darlington (1), Martinsville (4),

Tracks you might not be familiar with: Hickory NC, N. Wilksboro, NC; Winchester, IN; Dayton, OH; Marysville, TN; So. Boston, VA, Richmond, VA (fairgrounds); Jacksonville, FL, Santa Fe Speedway and Soldier's Field (both in Chicago),and E. Islip, Long Island. Some of these I attended for nightly racing, not NASCAR.

My first NASCAR race was the last beach race in '58. (We were on vacation and went to it). I followed NASCAR thru magazine articles (primarily in Mechanix Illustrated written by Tom McCahill. Also SpeedSport news, which we got each week at our local track)

One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't get into NASCAR soon enough to see Karl Kiekhaeffer Chrysler 300's race.

[BringBackWilkesboro]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

My alltime favourite was Tim Richmond. I also have rooted mightily for Junior Johnson, Fred Lorenzen, and Curtis Turner.

BGN favourite was, hands down, Sam Ard.

CTS, if I pull for anyone I pull for my homeboy, Rick Crawford.

There just isn't any of the current crop of drivers whom I give a hoot about. Basically anyone who (a) speaks his mind, and (b) has open wheel history is a little ahead of the remainder.

Tracks you'd be familiar with: Daytona (4 - Beach -1) Michigan (3), Pocono (1), Indianapolis (NASCAR-1, Indy cars - around 15 or 16 ), Bristol (asphalt - 4 concrete -0), Charlotte (2), Darlington (1), Martinsville (4),

Tracks you might not be familiar with: Hickory NC, N. Wilksboro, NC; Winchester, IN; Dayton, OH; Marysville, TN; So. Boston, VA, Richmond, VA (fairgrounds); Jacksonville, FL, Santa Fe Speedway and Soldier's Field (both in Chicago),and E. Islip, Long Island. Some of these I attended for nightly racing, not NASCAR.

My first NASCAR race was the last beach race in '58. (We were on vacation and went to it). I followed NASCAR thru magazine articles (primarily in Mechanix Illustrated written by Tom McCahill. Also SpeedSport news, which we got each week at our local track)

One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't get into NASCAR soon enough to see Karl Kiekhaeffer Chrysler 300's race.

Proof that Bob has done it all. Of course, I know that there's probably still more you wish you'd done.

[Racer Duck]

Originally Posted by BringBackWilkesboro

Proof that Bob has done it all. Of course, I know that there's probably still more you wish you'd done.

and some he hadn't

(I just had to beat him to that one! )

[I Flip For Carl]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

My alltime favourite was Tim Richmond. I also have rooted mightily for Junior Johnson, Fred Lorenzen, and Curtis Turner.

BGN favourite was, hands down, Sam Ard.

CTS, if I pull for anyone I pull for my homeboy, Rick Crawford.

There just isn't any of the current crop of drivers whom I give a hoot about. Basically anyone who (a) speaks his mind, and (b) has open wheel history is a little ahead of the remainder.

Tracks you'd be familiar with: Daytona (4 - Beach -1) Michigan (3), Pocono (1), Indianapolis (NASCAR-1, Indy cars - around 15 or 16 ), Bristol (asphalt - 4 concrete -0), Charlotte (2), Darlington (1), Martinsville (4),

Tracks you might not be familiar with: Hickory NC, N. Wilksboro, NC; Winchester, IN; Dayton, OH; Marysville, TN; So. Boston, VA, Richmond, VA (fairgrounds); Jacksonville, FL, Santa Fe Speedway and Soldier's Field (both in Chicago),and E. Islip, Long Island. Some of these I attended for nightly racing, not NASCAR.

My first NASCAR race was the last beach race in '58. (We were on vacation and went to it). I followed NASCAR thru magazine articles (primarily in Mechanix Illustrated written by Tom McCahill. Also SpeedSport news, which we got each week at our local track)

One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't get into NASCAR soon enough to see Karl Kiekhaeffer Chrysler 300's race.

I know where Winchester ,Indiana is and have even been there a few times in my younger days as I'm originally from Muncie, Indiana

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by I Flip For Carl

I know where Winchester ,Indiana is and have even been there a few times in my younger days as I'm originally from Muncie, Indiana

A Bearcat, eh? I'm from a ways down White River, Anderson. I did my first two years of college at Ball State. We use to race at the little track they had there in Muncie. Back when I was a kid I almost bought the farm at Winchester one afternoon. That was when they had the little concrete walls out almost on the track. A car flipped over the walls and landed in our pits. Got REAL crowded, REAL fast!

TRIVIA ALERT

Did you know that Darlington is a larger-scale copy of Winchester? Brasington got the idea for Darlington in 1948 when he attended the Indy 500 then went to a sprint car race at Winchester the following weekend. He was taken by the speed they attained and went back to So. Carolina and, using Winchester as a model, constructed Darlington. The banks and turn radius are the same, the only difference is the size and the tighter turn one because of the pond.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by BringBackWilkesboro

Proof that Bob has done it all. Of course, I know that there's probably still more you wish you'd done.

Nope. Not at all. Just evidence that I'm older than dirt and grew up in an era when hanging around race tracks and race people was affordable and fun.

[I Flip For Carl]

I graduated from Delta .

I also went to Anderson for ASA race's . Saw Mark Martin race there back in the late 70's .

An thanks for the trivia about the tie between Winchester and Darlington thats something I didn't know.

[PettyBlue]

Originally Posted by I Flip For Carl

Since I'm new I would like to find out who everyone's favorite driver's are in Cup,Busch ,Truck's.

Who was your first favorite driver?

What year did you become a Nascar fan ?

What Tracks have you been to an what is your favorite?

Also if you don't mind I'd like to know your first name ,if you don't want to say thats okay


As for me

CUP~Carl Edwards and David Gilliland

BUSCH~Brad Coleman and Mike Wallace

TRUCKS~Todd Bodine and Chad McCumbee

I do have other favorite's in all 3 series ,but these are my top favorite's and btw of course I pull for Carl in the Busch series ,but these are just my favorite Busch driver's that don't run in Cup .

My first favorite driver was Davey Allison .I became a Nascar fan and chose Davey as my driver in 1993

I have been to Talladega (2),Charlotte(3) ,Atlanta (1),Bristol (3) My favorite is Talladega

My name is Terri

Favorite=Lee Petty,year=1952 a fan,1957=first race I could afford to attend,too many tracks to name I have been to but SouthBoston Speedway as my favorite,my name changes depending on if people are glad or mad to see me,lol.