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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.23.2009 - 10:53 pm
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Terry Forsythe's only top-5


  2.   The Zeusian posted:
  12.07.2009 - 2:46 am
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Dale Sr. start-and-park finish.


  3.   Burl posted:
  09.12.2018 - 4:26 pm
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Dale Sr. was there for all of about half a day. He flew in. Was driven
to the track. Suited up. Practiced, and if I recall, maybe all of 20
laps. Qualed. Waited the hour or so before the race. Ran two laps and
went out with a "clutch" issue. The only clutch going on was the
appearance money clutched in his hand. He was strictly there to fill
seats. Now the fact the fans thought he was going to race the whole
thing and maybe even win it, well no chance. Bill Elliott came out one
time to run Evergreen with us and was there for the stay and to win.
Donnie ran with us one time. Geoff Bodine. But Dale Sr. was there to get
the money and scram. I think he made it clear he was not to run
distance. When he was there he talked to next to nobody and barely waved
at the fans. For all his highness, the few times I was around him, and
this was one....he was an garden-variety a-hole and quite unlikeable
person. I have no idea what he was paid that day, but we heard it was in
the low thousands. Pretty good money then. For most working class folks,
to put it another way, it was two/three months work for what he got in
over about six hours.


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