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Denny Hamlin Wins NASCAR Race At Pocono
Denny Hamlin ended a sophomore slump of sorts when he won the rain delayed Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway. The win was Hamlin’s first of the season and broke a 50 race winless streak. His last victory had come in 2008 at Martinsville Raceway.
After the race, an emotional Hamlin dedicated the victory to his grandmother who passed away late last week at the age of 91:
She understands the competition of the sport and she understands how much she means to me. Like today, she’s pretty proud. We definitely had some angels with us today.”
The unique triangle shaped track at Pocono has bedeviled many drivers, but Hamlin has always done well on it. He swept both races here as a rookie in 2006 and after the race his boss J.D. Gibbs made note of that fact:
I told him earlier, we’re going to lobby for a few extra races at Pocono”
Hamlin moved up to fifth in the NASCAR championship points standings after the victory. Tony Stewart increased his points lead over second place Jimmie Johnson to 197 points with a top ten finish.
Juan Pablo Montoya finished second, moving him up to 8th place in the overall points standings. Clint Bowyer finished third and expressed pleasure with the solid performance in his postrace comments:
“Things haven’t been going our way all year long so it feels good to have something swing our way.
Former Indy Car driver Sam Hornish, Jr. took fourth. Kasey Kahne rounded out the top five.
Points leader Stewart will have a good opportunity to increase his lead this weekend, as NASCAR heads to Watkins Glen, NY to race on the road course there. Stewart is considered not only the best road course driver among current NASCAR competitors, but arguably the best of all time.
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Opinions On Muscle Autos
There are so many folks in the world that have shown their American pride by involving themselves in some way to American muscle cars. American muscle cars have always been the most popular auto, and no matter how hard those that cannot fathom the feeling of the individual behind the wheel of these American muscle cars, try to take away the freedom associated with the muscle car generation away, it won’t happen.
These cars were built in the time era when the baby boomers of WWII, were teenagers and young adults. There were a lot of people that spent a lot of time doing a lot of things in and around these muscle cars. These muscle cars are a symbol that went along with what was happening in the world. Typically, a fast life getting faster everyday, with lots of style and a great amount of competitiveness, everyone thriving to be the best at everything.
In the present day, muscle cars have become a hobby for the motor loving individual. There are shows that people from the muscle car group can gather and exchange stories that involve the exchange of stories involving the muscle cars, that are presently parked in a garage, and are mostly only driven on sunny Sunday afternoons. In most cases, these cars which are only driven on good weather days, are on their way to compete for the best looking, best kept, Classic muscle car.
The American muscle cars were a symbol of the competitive and ability to win, American pride. Some religions believe pride is wicked. Although, pride has more than a few interpretations. When American muscle cars were built based on the blue collar American worker, and the product bearing the sticker stating made in the U. S. A., any individual would take pride in the finished product.
American muscle cars did not have all the tracking devices and electronic mumbo jumbo that is available today, which allowed more room for the motor. The best hobby know to the genuine American, is to drive a true American muscle car.
Dodge has a fair amount of competitive muscle cars as well as Pontiac. Dodge is known for the hemi and the amount of horsepower that goes with it when placed in a charger or challenger. Pontiac had the GTO and other well known muscle cars. Although Oldsmobile and Chrysler were structured for luxury, there were a few cars built to get into the competition also.
In the modern day, the stress levels of world problems are almost intolerable, because everyone talks and no one does anything to help the situations. When a person revs up a 1968 mustang GT500, everyone around stops talking and looks in the direction of that distinctive authority sound.
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NASCAR Legend, Richard Petty, Still Has Them Beat
Because of the intense popularity of the sport of NASCAR across the entire United States, it should come as no surprise that interest in Richard Petty Trivia is always high, because Petty is one of the most dynamic and recognizable icons the sport has ever had. Would you know the following facts in a Richard Petty Quiz?
Did you know that Petty is now 72 years old, having been born on July 2, 1937? While you might know that he is nicknamed “The King”, did you know how well he earned that title? He has won the NASCAR Championship more times than any other driver in the history of the sport (although Dale Earnhardt has tied him) and has also won the Daytona 500 more times than anyone else at seven. Ten consecutive wins in a single season, more than 200 total career wins, and 27 races won in a single season are all outstanding records that made sure that Richard Lee Petty will forever be known as the king of his sport.
Richard Petty Trivia will also usually reference the three crashes that he is very lucky to have survived. In 1970, 1980, and 1988 Petty was involved in potentially fatal accidents that he luckily escaped from. The crash in 1970 prompted Petty to design the net, which is used to cover the driver’s side window in NASCAR vehicles and which the league has since began to require on all cars. During the two earlier crashes, Petty experienced injuries; the most serious being in 1980 when he had serious neck trauma. The crash in 1988 was widely considered to be the most spectacular, with the car flipping several times, and yet the injuries to the driver were the most minimal on this crash, partly due to the increase of safety technology which had taken place over the years in between the various crashes Petty was a part of.
Petty drove many different cars over his career, including a Plymouth, a Ford, a Plymouth Superbird, a Dodge Magnum, a Chevy Monte Carlo, a Buick Regal, and a Pontiac Grand Prix, among others. He is probably most famously associated with the Plymouth brand, although he did spend many years racing a variety of different cars due to both his personal preference and internal politics between his race teams and manufacturers.
One other interesting fact about Richard Petty is that he has always been known as being among the most personable of all sports celebrities and is extremely famous for always making time for his fans; signing at some of the longest autograph sessions the sport has known.
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The Legacy Of NASCAR Pioneer Lee Petty
Though his fame would be eclipsed by his son Richard, Lee Petty was a very successful race car driver in his own right and a pioneer during the early days of the sport. His legacy includes not only his son, better known to NASCAR fans as “The King” Richard Petty and Petty Enterprises has fielded race teams for four generations.
Lee Petty was one of the first serious businessmen to own a NASCAR team back in the day when many drivers earned the bulk of their income from bootlegging and running moonshine. He competed in the first ever sanctioned NASCAR race on June 19th, 1949 and has the dubious distinction of causing the first caution flag in that race. The elder Petty won 50 NASCAR races including the first one ever run on a paved track. He also caused his share of trouble, including a number of fistfights. He once hit Curtis Turner over the head with a wrench and started a brawl during the pre-race festivities on another occasion. The fracas ended when Mrs. Petty joined the fray swinging her purse–which contained a .44 handgun.
Lee also won three NASCAR championships (the precursor to today’s Sprint Cup) during his career. He also shepherded his son, Richard, into the sport. Surprisingly, things didn’t immediately go well for the Petty offspring–he’d race only 9 times in the first season and ended up in a wreck more often than not. He’d eventually turn things around and the man now known as “The King” Richard Petty would go on to win a staggering 200 NASCAR races–a mark that may never be broken.
Lees career was cut short by a nasty accident at the 1961 Daytona 500, where his car hit a guard rail and flipped a few times. Lee suffered a number of broken bones and internal injuries. He raced a few more times, but hung it up for good in 1964. He remained involved in the Petty Engineering team for awhile, but soon figured it was in good hands with Richard and Maurice running the show. Never a publicity seeker, he lived out the rest of his life enjoying the fruits of his labor. An avid golfer, he played frequently until a few months before his death in 2000 at age 86.
Lee Petty has a number of NASCAR records that may never be touched. He finished in the top 5 an amazing 231 times, and still holds the record for the best average finish for a full time driver at 7.6th place. This was all done before big money sponsorships against part time felons that ran moonshine for a living, making his achievements all the more impressive.
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