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Post by Fire21 on Jul 3, 2019 9:38:33 GMT -5
Taken from a Wood Brothers newsletter I just received...
When Paul Menard and the No. 21 Menards/Dutch Boy Ford Mustang leave Daytona International Speedway at the end of Saturday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400, it’ll mark the end of an era. From the opening of Daytona International Speedway in 1959, the track has hosted the series now known as Monster Energy Cup on the Fourth of July or that weekend. Beginning next year, the second Cup race at Daytona, behind the season-opening Daytona 500, will be run in late August and become the final event in the 26-race regular season, giving drivers and teams one last chance to make the cut for the 10-race Playoffs, which will begin the following week at Darlington Raceway. From 1959 through 1987, the race commonly known as the Firecracker 400 back in the day was run on July 4. Races typically got the green flag at 10 a.m., allowing fans a break from the July heat, and giving race teams an opportunity to do their work at the track and get in some beach time in the afternoon before heading home. (Fans also were able to flock to the beaches after the race.) In 1988 the race moved to the Saturday of the Fourth of July weekend and ran on that day until this year, with the lone exception being in 1998, when wildfires in central Florida forced the race to be moved to October. To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, "I tell ya, NA$CAR just can't get any respect"...at least from me.
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Post by 88cars38 on Jul 4, 2019 5:19:51 GMT -5
Nascar is killing itself. 😥😥😥
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