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August 3, 1975 - Pearson Procures Pocono's Purolator over Petty Protest
The Winston Cup Grand National Series teams returned to Pocono for the track’s second annual Cup race - the Purolator 500 on August 3, 1975.Bobby Allison won the pole in his Roger Penske Matador...
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August 7, 1964 - Rambi Raceway in Myrtle Beach
Myrtle Beach's Rambi Raceway opened in 1958, and track hosted nine Grand National races from 1958 through 1965. As a car owner, Julian Petty experienced early success at Rambi with Bob Welborn as his...
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August 10, 1968 - Myers Brothers Memorial
On Saturday, August 10, 1968, NASCAR's Grand National drivers arrived in Winston-Salem, NC for the 250-lap Myers Brothers Memorial race. The same drivers raced at Bowman Gray Stadium just two days...
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August 18, 1966 - Sandlapper 200
NASCAR's Grand National drivers arrived in South Carolina on August 18, 1966, for some short-track racing on a hot, summer, Thursday night. The Sandlapper 200 was scheduled as a 200-lap race on the...
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August 19, 1965 - Sandlapper 200
NASCAR's Grand National drivers arrived in Columbia, SC on August 19, 1965, for the Sandlapper 200. The Thursday night event was a 200-lap affair on Columbia's half-mile dirt surface.Though many of the...
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August 25, 1974 - Michigan's Yankee 400
Michigan International Speedway joined NASCAR's Grand National schedule with two races in 1969. The second one, the Yankee 600, was scheduled for mid-August. From then until now, Michigan's second race...
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August 27, 1966 - Myers Brothers Memorial
On August 7, 1966, Richard Petty won the Dixie 400Â at Atlanta International Raceway. The primary storyline from the race involved Junior Johnson's infamous Yellow Banana Ford driven by Fred Lorenzen...
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September 6, 1976 - Southern 500
For the second year in a row, the 2016 Southern 500 was run at Darlington Raceway under the lights on a Sunday evening. For about 10 years before 2015, the race was a bit of a gypsy with it being run...
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September 9, 1966 - Buddy Shuman Memorial
As the 1966 Grand National season began to wind down, a couple of story lines stayed in the news week-to-week.David Pearson's incredible season - Through 42 races of the 49-race schedule, Pearson had...
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September 17, 1972 - Delaware 500
As NASCAR's Winston Cup series schedule hit mid-September, only six races remained between Richard Petty and his pursuit of an unprecedented fourth title. Petty and his fellow drivers arrived in Dover,...
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October 5, 1969 - Wilkes 400
The Wilkes 400 at North Wilkesboro Speedway on October 5, 1969, was the 47th event of a 54-race season schedule!The race was originally scheduled for September 21st - the Sunday after the inaugural GN...
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October 6, 1974 - National 500
As the 1974 Winston Cup season neared its conclusion, Charlotte Motor Speedway hosted its annual National 500 on October 6th as the third-to-last race of the year.Source: Motor Racing Programme...
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TMC Racing Stories: Talladega 1
After several years of blogging detailed posts about racing history, I'm pretty tired.So for the downtime of racing season between now and 2017 Speedweeks, I don't plan to do a lot of racing research...
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For the first half of the 1990s, I lived in Chattanooga, TN. Races at Talladega and Atlanta were easy day trips. In March 1992, however, we chose to live large, spend the night  in Atlanta, and then...
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TMC Racing Stories: Talladega 2
The eventual co-founders of the Schaefer Hall of Fame hit Talladega for the 1991 summer race. The weekend was a return trip for me but the first Dega experience for Philly.For the most part, my...
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TMC Racing Stories: Richmond 1
My one and (so far) only trip to Richmond for a race was in May 2002. I was scheduled to be in Cary NC the week after the race for work. So I left a few days early, jumped over to High Point to hang...
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Schaefer Year in Review: 2016
The Schaefer Hall of Fame and Ring of Honor - a bunch of good-time-havers and ne'er-do-wells - once again had a fantastic year of fun. As best I can tell, The SHOF and SROH were represented at eight...
View ArticleTMC Racing Stories: Daytona 1
Trying to convince someone to give racing a shot is challenging when the other person stubbornly rejects pretty much anything outside of baseball, football, and hoops.When two friends and I got an...
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TMC Racing Stories: Texas 1
In April 1997, Schaefer Hall of Famer co-founder Philly, my sister, my brother-in-law Chuckles, and I attend the inaugural race weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. Chuckles arranged a special event at the...
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TMC Racing Stories: Texas 2
As I noted in Part 1 of my Texas racing stories, I attended the first race weekend at Texas Motor Speedway in April 1997.On race day for the Cup event, my brother-in-law Chuckles and I got to the track...
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