|| *Comments on the 2014 Casino Arizona 100:* View the most recent comment <#16> | Post a comment <#post> 1. DH101 posted: 11.07.2014 - 12:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Nick Drake leads flag to flag to win his first ever KN pro series race. Suprised Gray didn't get to his bumper and did what Brandon Jones did to him the same way. 2. joey2448 posted: 11.07.2014 - 4:43 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) ...or what Gaulding did to Custer in this race one year ago. Greg Pursley wins the 2014 K&N Pro Series West championship with his ninth-place finish, his second title in four years. 3. HouseOfPenske posted: 11.07.2014 - 7:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Pursley drove a Chevrolet in this race. 4. Timmy Quivy posted: 11.07.2014 - 11:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Pursley told Speed51 after this race he is retiring. Always good to go out on top. His car owner Gene Price is also getting out of the business with former driver Jeff Jefferson looking to take over control of the race team. 5. nascar_vd / racing-reference.info posted: 11.07.2014 - 11:37 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Congratulations for Greg Pursley, Jerry Pitts, Gene Price and the entire Gene Price Motorsports for another great year and th second championsip in K&N West. Good to see Hannah Newhouse in the race. Congratuations to Nick Drake and th Bill McAnally team. Four win with the #99 with four different drivers this year ! A really good car. With a talented and experienced driver like Eric Holmes behind the Wheel, the 2014 crown goes to BMR for sure. 6. RaceFanX posted: 11.07.2014 - 11:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) With the K&N East series already done for the year several of its drivers came west for the K&N West finale. This race had the West series' biggest field of 2014 beyond its companion races with the East series at Iowa. Nick Drake makes his first West start of 2014 since the season opener, also at Phoenix, and drives direct to victory lane. It's Drake's first NASCAR national touring series victory. 7. rw posted: 11.07.2014 - 7:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Geez McAnally has some nice cars, props to Nick Drake! 8. roy cnmeron posted: 07.04.2016 - 7:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Historian Richard Parry has agreed to post pages on the beginnings of Stock Car racing in Central New York, including the upstart Consolidated and EMRC groups. Stay tuned, it'll be great reading and you'll learn something. The BEGINING IN AND AROUND NEW YORK STATE - 1949 Racing in New York was just starting to take off as the war was now over and family's were looking for a means of entertainment. As the County Fairs and local parades were a way of relieve stress, race tracks started to spring up across the state mostly at the local fair grounds in Vernon, NY was just one such case. 1949 wasn't the real start of racing in central NY as there had been quite a few sprint car and big car races held through out the central NY area. Vernon had a will established fairgrounds with a picture perfect setting and a half mile horse track there was no better place to race stock cars. With the aid of the newly formed sanctioning body NASCAR the promoter would be Edward 'Ed' Otto. The weekly race shows would prove to make for good action as there were many winners to grace victory lane. But it all came down to Oct 30th to decide the track champion and New York State Champion. The full afternoon of racing was highlighted by many crack ups and two drivers taken off to Rome hospital. There was a 20 lap co-feature with Charlie Barry the winner and Bud Larabee finishing second. The out come of the 50 lap championship was making history as Bobby Cameron of Kenmore won with Gene Austin from Mexico second and third went to Bud Larabee from Camden. This put the Vernon track title into Larabee's hands and Bobby Cameron grabbed the New York State title. The Vernon champion received the trophy from A&J MOTORS Yorkville, NY. And the New York State Champ received $1,000 NASCAR point fund plus championship trophy. Point Standings Vernon Championship NY State Championship 1.Bud Larabee Camden 365 1. Bobby Cameron 1460 2.Chuck Mahoney Camden 318 2. Charles Barry 1368 3.Frank Gallup Cooperstown 275 3. Bob Sund 1078- Uncle Bob Sund! 4.Jim Ingison Fulton 222 4. Bob Minet 675 5.Charlie Barry Syracuse 210 5. Chuck Mahoney 674 Vernon would only run under the NASCAR banner one more year 1950. Then be sanctioned by various clubs until it's closing. 9. roy cnmeron posted: 07.04.2016 - 7:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) NASCAR has once again re written History and wrote my Dad out of it! He was the New York State Champion of 1949. He won the Race on October 30th,1949 at the Vernon Speedway and it just so happens the Secretary of NASCAR at the time- William Tuthill was At the Race! It was a NASCAR SANCTIONED RACE! Hello, > > My name is Roy Cameron. I am one of 5 brothers. Our father, Robert Cameron was the 1949 New York State NASCAR Champion. He won the 50 lap Championship race that was held at the Vernon Speedway on October 30th, 1949 we are slowly putting together the information to get some kind of recognition as to Bobby Cameron's #70 NASCAR and his achievements in Racing. I still have all of his trophies and 2 thick scrap books chocked full of news paper articles from the Buffalo Currier Express old news clippings. He raced in the Daytona 50 2 years before he was killed at the Dunn Tire Raceway Park also known as the Lancaster Speedway on June 4th, 1960. I have the medal from the last race on the beach at the Daytona 500 in 1958 and recently saw an old film clip where he was filmed ,but not mentioned! He apparently had car trouble during the race, because he only came in 28th out of a field of 50. I have all kinds of racing programs where he raced against Red Byron and Lee Petty, Cotton Owens, the Flock Brothers and many others, but you never can find anything about our Dad. How can this be? My Brother's and I have a suspicion that it was because our Dad was trying to promote a Union for the Drivers. France and his Silent Partner- Ed Otto and their cronies were not too happy about it either. The night he was killed there was supposed to be a spotter at the Pit exit, but no one knew or was too scared to tell who was supposed to be there. Could it be they wanted him out of the way? Well they got their intended result as he was coming around the 4th turn leading the pack of course, a car was rolled on to the track hitting him in the right rear quarter panel causing him to go into a sideways roll and flip onto a full gas tank that ruptured causing it to explode and he was incinerated alive in front of over 4000 fans. The next week I am told they had the largest crowd in the history of the track.He was also the first NASCAR Safety Inspector given the position in 1956. Still NO MENTION ON IT! NASCAR think they can write their own version of History , but the problem they have is there are a few gys like me and racing Author -Richard Parry who Know the real story 10. roy cnmeron posted: 07.04.2016 - 7:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) we were just up at the Daytona Race yesterday with all my Dad's Trophies and passing out Flyers asking NASCAR to build some kind of Memorial to all the Drivers who have perished! There are a lot of guys like my Dad that NASCAR has written out of the History books and it is just not right! they need to erect a Wall of Remembrance with all the names of the Drivers who died weather they were famous or not and weather or not they died on or off the Track! 11. oldschoolracing519 posted: 07.04.2016 - 8:10 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) who the heck is this person^^ man your barking up the wrong tree and you choose a race from 2014 in arizona to air your grief? wow 12. Tylor Thaber posted: 07.04.2016 - 8:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @8, 9, and 10 http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=4293 Here, maybe this'll help you air it. Now mess off. 13. nascar_vd / Racing-Reference.info posted: 09.16.2017 - 7:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Note: one Red Flag lap 33 for 9 min. 8 secs. 14. RaceFanX posted: 09.12.2019 - 9:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Drake was a crossing over K&N East regular at the time he won this race in dominant fashion. As of 2019 he has yet to make another start in the West series. 15. Anonymous posted: 04.18.2020 - 1:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wendell Chavous' only K&N start. 16. Rich posted: 08.25.2020 - 10:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ray Dunlap and Phil Parsons were the commentators. Jim Tretow and Heather DeBeaux were the pit road reporters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: