STEVE PARK WINS at Daytona tonight. Never thought I would see him win again. Another race getting ready to start. I wish he was still in Sprint Cup. He was my fav next to Dale.

 

I like Steve Park, congrats to him, he was never really the same after that wreck in Atlanta where he drove righ into the pit wall.....

Did you ever hear the story when Dale Sr called him to come race for him?

 

Park once otld a story about going hunting with Dale Earnhardt and Earnhardt grazing the gate because it wouldn't open fast enough on the way back home.

 

just found this, pretty cool......can't copy and paste due to copyright issues, read all or just the paragraph labeled Steve Park and "The Call"


Steve Park - History

 

........and here is another Dale Earnhardt Sr story when he let Dale Jarrett use his plane to go to New York for the banquet...

Editorial: Goodbye Dale; We'll Miss You



After winning the 1999 Winston Cup Championship, Jarrett asked to borrow a plane from Eanrhardt so he could fly his guests to New York for the awards ceremony and told Earnhardt to send him the bill. Upon receiving and opening the bill, Jarrett said Earnhardt had written on the bill, "No charge. Congratulations on the championship. Courtesy of Dale and Teresa [Earnhardt's wife]." This side of Earnhardt clearly showed through during that final, fateful lap of the Daytona 500. He raced in third place and battled it out with the cars behind him, which allowed his good friend Michael Waltrip to win his first race in 462 tries and his son, Dale Earnhardt jr., to follow Waltrip across the finish line in second which made up a 1-2 finish for Dale Earnhardt owned cars. Unfortunately, instead of getting the chance to celebrate with Waltrip and his son, Earnhardt was involved in an accident in the fourth turn of the last lap that cost him his life

 

Classic NASCAR Photo of the Day

David Pearson explains what happened in victory lane in 1976 at the Daytona 500!!

Racing One/Getty Images

 

Classic NASCAR Photo of the Day

Here is an Ingo Giske owned negative of Cale Yarborough in the 1968 Daytona 500.

 

At that angle.. the banking looks outragious!
No soft walls back then !!!


Just curious Duane....
Back in the 70's

Who was the last person to Race a Chrysler/Dodge product just before they pulled out of NASCAR?

 

Petty held out til the very bitter end. He raced a Dodge Magnum? or something they came out with in like 1978 but he realized it just wouldn't be a competitive car, so the switched to I believe an Olds Cutlass.

 

What did buddy arington race in the late 70's early/mid 80's?... wasnt he the very last driver to run a chrysler/dodge product in Nascar... I think it was an Imperial???