2022 NASCAR THREAD

nope. can you? lol

 

All but third place and I’m not sure about that one. Looks like my original driver ( third place) is back there banging doors with AK

 

Ricky Rudd
Rusty Wallace
Not sure
Dale Sr.
Geoff Bodine, maybe not.
Morgan Sheppard maybe
Bill Elliott
Dale Waltrip

 

Ricky rudd
Rusty Wallace
Neil bonnett
Bud car?
Kyle petty
Bill elliott
Darrell waltrip

 

Junior Johnson in the Bud car

 

https://www.racing-reference.info/race-results/1988_Budweiser_400/W/

 

Junior owned it, but he sure wasn't driving it.

 

You’re right!

Terry Labonte

 

Yeah, I looked at that link you posted, forgot all about Terry driving that car.

 

I was first thinking Bonnet in third then I noticed what appeared to be another Bud car back there beside Alan Kulwicki but they not right.
Looks like Tim Richmond in 11th and maybe Geoff Bodine in the Levi Garrett car. Possibly Lake Speed in the purple and white Buick just behind him.
Also believe that’s Bobby Allison in the gold and white Miller beer car and I can definitely spot Richard Petty a few cars behind him.
Back when the cars had a little personality and nascar was still relevant.

 

Yep. It’s a shopping mall and tract housing now.

 

Looking at the picture up close. I'm probably wrong on 1/2 of these:


26 Rudd (Quaker State)
27 Wallace (Kodiak)
75 Bonnett (Valvoline)
3 Earnhardt (Goodwrench)
11 Labonte (Bud)
21 Petty (Citgo)
9 Elliott (Coors)
17 Waltrip (Tide)
71 Marcis (Lifebuoy)
44 Marlin (Piedmont)
25 Parsons (Folgers)
33 Gant (Skoal)
5 G. Bodine (Levi Garrett)
?
19 Little (Coors)
20 Moroso (Moroso) ?
6 Martin (Stroh's)
15 B. Bodine (Crisco)
29 Yarborough/Jarrett (Hardee's)
7 Kulwicki (Zerex)
?
?
8 Hillin Jr. (Miller)
84/12 Alexander/Trickle (Miller)
?
?
4 Wilson (Kodak)
?
43 Petty (STP)
?
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?
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?
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55 Parsons (Skoal)

 

Oh shoot! There were some real curveballs in this race! The Winston West guys often ran this event, so you'd see some additional names & sponsors, with some Canadian guys in the mix.

• Tim Richmond was out, with Kenny Schrader his replacement. Tim was two months from death at this point.
• Rick Hendrick drove a Superflo #18 Monte Carlo, finishing 15th.
• Future Trans-Am ace Tommy Kendall finished 18th.
• Morgan Shephard subbed for Harry Gant in the #33.
• Hershel McGriff (US Bank 04)

Other names I don't recognize (likely Winston West guys):

• Bill Schmitt (73)
• John Krebs (Skoal 66)
• Roy Smith (Peterbilt 79)
• Jocko Maggiacomo (63)
• Terry Petris (62)
• Rick McCray (08)
• Ruben Garcia (32)

 

I found that photo last night really not knowing, initially, the relevance it had. That was the last Budweiser 400 at RIS. The nostalgia of yesteryear Cup racing is truly awesome.

 

I certainly reflect on the era with rosy-colored glasses, but I consider the mid to late '80s "Aero Wars" era to be peak NASCAR.
To think how much the cars advanced aerodynamically from 1982-1989 is wild. Bobby Allison's wreck and the onset of the restrictor plate era killed it.
It's so interesting to see the raw power and downforce (or lack of) teams were getting out of the cars with no digital sims or useable software at the time. Just dyno time, theories, rolling sheet metal different ways, pounding spoilers with their fists, and seeing what worked.

Bill Elliott went from this in '82:


To this by '87:

 

Fastest 4 tire pit stop in NASCAR history

8.6 seconds


https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChU1D9Uj13K/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

They also began transitioning away from the actual on road product. Although in this era it still resembled the on-road product if you added a front body kit.

 

Proof that you can still be fast and not have a wheel fall off.

 

Here's a good read on the subject:

https://www.streetmusclemag.com/news/when-stock-cars-ruled-nascar-and-why-they-left/

"Well, even up into the 1980’s they strongly resembled the factory version. If you look at the ’85 Thunderbird that Bill Elliot ran, or the ’86 Monte Carlo that guys like Earnhardt ran, the car still very much resembled the factory version. It was probably in the early ‘90’s that they really went away from looking like the factory car. At that point the only thing matching a stock factory body piece was the roof and the hood. Everything else was completely hand fabricated. In fact, until 2003, the hood, roof, and decklid were still required to be identical to their stock counterparts.

What really changed things body-wise was the ’83 T-Bird, because it was the beginning of the super aerodynamic cars we know of now. It’s a very round car with very few flat panels. Up until 1990 or so, teams would get “white” bodies from the manufacturers and use the quarter panels, roof, A-pillars, hood, and then fabricate everything else.

Interestingly enough, I have a quarter panel from one of the cars used in the 1990 movie, “Days of Thunder.” The gauge of the metal used in 1990 was far thicker than the cars that are run today, which are as thin as lunch meat wrappers! It’s just an example of technology moving forward."