by fullnoise68 » Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:46 pm
When I started this thread I mentioned country singer Marty Robbins who was also a very good part time Nascar driver. His preference of car was Dodge. At the Talledega Superspeedway in 1972, Robbins stunned the top guns and the crowd by running near the front all race. After the race, Robbins was going to be awarded the `Rookie of the Race' award when he told officials he couldn`t accept the award. His reason, the previous night he removed the restrictor plate between the carb and inlet manifold, which effectively gave him 15 miles per hour more than the others. He told them he just wanted to know what it was like to run up the front and he had achieved that. In todays dog eat dog world such honesty in competition no longer exists.
When I started this thread I mentioned country singer Marty Robbins who was also a very good part time Nascar driver. His preference of car was Dodge. At the Talledega Superspeedway in 1972, Robbins stunned the top guns and the crowd by running near the front all race. After the race, Robbins was going to be awarded the `Rookie of the Race' award when he told officials he couldn`t accept the award. His reason, the previous night he removed the restrictor plate between the carb and inlet manifold, which effectively gave him 15 miles per hour more than the others. He told them he just wanted to know what it was like to run up the front and he had achieved that. In todays dog eat dog world such honesty in competition no longer exists.