|| *Comments on the 1972 Myers Brothers Memorial 250:* View the most recent comment <#6> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Alex posted: 06.23.2015 - 8:11 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Little is known about this race, but this is what we know... Laps: Jim Paschal- 248 Leaders: Max Berrier 1-250 MOV: 2 laps + Source: Newspaper accounts, witness accounts 2. RaceFanX posted: 09.20.2019 - 10:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Max Berrier was weekly racer at Bowman Gray at time of this race so combining his home field advantage with a relatively competitive car from Junie Donlavey's Cup team meant it was lights out for competition's hopes of winning. Berrier won the pole, lapped the field twice over, and led flag-to-flag for the win, his second and last in Grand National East action. He'd get to do a Cup race with Donlavey's team later in the season after this runaway victory. 3. RaceFanX posted: 10.02.2019 - 2:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Starting spots: Bobby Fleming- 12 Wendell Scott- 20 Pee Wee Wentz- 15 Status: Bobby Fleming- rear end Wendell Scott- engine Pee Wee Wentz- engine 4. rm posted: 10.27.2020 - 4:03 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) This was supposed to be the final event of the 1972 season, but very late additions were made for a race the following night at Coeburn, breaking in the brand-new track there, and a race the following week at Columbia in a desperate bid to keep that track above water financially. An unusual prelude to this race: Neil Castles punched a Winston-Salem-based newspaper reporter in the garage area at Atlanta during the Cup race weekend there the month prior to this race. Supposedly, the reporter was conducting an interview with Castles and confronted Castles about his less-than-squeaky-clean history of traffic violations, leading Castles to punch the reporter and shred the papers the reporter had with him. Castles - known to be an unreliable narrator, at absolute best - claimed that Bill France Sr. refused to sign his payout checks until this race and was planning to suspend Castles until he paid an overly hefty fine and apologized publicly to the reporter, a series of threats that seemed to be based in more fiction than fact. What is known, though, is that the promoter of this Bowman Gray race was rather close with France Sr. and was aware that France had directed Castles to, at the very least, apologize to the reporter and to do it sooner rather than later. When raceday at Bowman Gray drew closer and the reporter told the promoter that he had yet to hear from Castles, the promoter stated that he was mulling the possibility of refusing Castles' entry at Bowman Gray on the basis that Castles violated the good old "actions detrimental to stock car racing" clause. Yes, that was a thing in the 70s. At some point during the race weekend - whether it was before the Bowman Gray race, or in between the Bowman Gray & Coeburn races is not completely clear - Castles fulfilled his end of the bargain, though almost all of the contemporary reports seem to dance around directly saying that Castles apologized to the reporter during their meeting. Castles was on record as saying that he would prefer to lose the series title he was chasing and its associated winner's check than to apologize to the reporter. Castles status - crash And sure enough after all of that, he crashed out here and had to pull nearly an all-night repair job to get his car ready for the Sunday race. Karma? Or just making him work for his money? 5. MSportRev posted: 10.27.2020 - 5:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lead changes: 0 6. RaceFanX posted: 10.30.2020 - 9:26 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Cup racer J.D. McDuffie makes his Grand National East debut and comes home seventh to score his best result in this series. McDuffie only ran three races on this tour but had two top-10s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: