I will admit that I do not think I would “totally” enjoy sitting at a race track weekend after week-end to watch long distance racing cars, but I would really like to attend one of the more prestigious events sometime before I die. (I have been at races down on Lawson Road and in the Crandall and DFW areas upon occasions and enjoyed them.) But I do enjoy being able to watch “on the tube,” as my uncle was accustomed to saying, and at one time during my younger years, I could name the winners of major events. Parnelli Jones, Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, Cale Yarborough, Eddie Rickenbacker, Carroll Shelby, Mario Andretti, Al Unser, and A. J. Foyt were some of my favorite drivers!
HELIO CASTRONEVES This year’s INDIANAPOLIS 500 was won by an OLD GUY (46 years), who had been dismissed by many as too old for Indy, or even fulltime, racing! The 140,000 or so folks in attendance applauded loudly, and former driving mates and rivals flooded out upon the track to congratulate this 4-TIME WINNER, who started the running in the 8th position and set a new Indy record of an average speed of 190.69 miles per hour.
He is the 4th oldest winner in Indy history (Al and Bobby Unser and Emerson Fittipaldi). He also joins Rick Mears, Al Unser, Sr., and A. J. Foyt as winners four times!
COCA-COLA 600: *KYLE LARSON* won this year’s event as the driver for team owner Rick Hendrick’s 269th career Cup Series victory, a new all-time record, passing Petty Enterprises! Larson led 328 of the 400 laps and all “four stages” for his 2nd win of the season. He became only the 3rd driver with multiple wins this “go-around” (or 400), and this moves him to a series-high 10 stages wins this year.
Kyle Busch, who finished 3rd, remarked with about 100 of the 400 laps remaining concerning what he would have to do to catch Larson and emphatically said that he couldn’t; “they’re too fast!” He was correct!
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