|| *Comments on the 1952 unnamed race (1952-02):* View the most recent comment <#21> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. DaleJrfan14 posted: 03.22.2006 - 8:34 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) incoming tide....hah! 2. Dennis Garrett posted: 04.20.2007 - 7:57 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Hey NASCAR, There was Two Joie Ray!!! On February 10, 1952 at Beach & Road Course, Daytona Beach, FL. A mystery man that used the name of Joie Ray from Portland,OR. was driving a Henry J stock race car #105 for owner Grady Quinn. Started 25th position, Finished 51st position in the race, after he wrecked it on the 37th lap of the 49 laps* race on a 4.100 mile road course (200.9 miles) Grand National race number 2 of 34. One night on an popular local radio live broadcast auto racing show located in Richmond,Va., that was hosted by Joe and Ruth Kelly, a gentleman by name of Joseph R. Ray Jr. called in and set the racing record straight that he wasn't the first black race driver in NASCAR and he had never raced race cars on any race tracks in Daytona Beach, Fla. area. He called the mystery man listed above as "the White" Joie Ray, the crook, who was wanted by law and had an large collection of arrest warrants following him. During the radio interview, Mr.Ray proudly called himself "the Black" Joie Ray, an honest law abiding black race car driver, trying to race!!! Every where he went to race, "the White" Joie Ray's arrest warrants was following Mr.Ray. It got so bad he had to produce to The law enforcement officers an "Special ID", proofing he was "the Black" Joie Ray, the black race car driver, not "the White" Joie Ray,the crook!!! After Mr. Ray's interview, he gain a bunch of new race fans for being honest with his racing history and tell it like it is. Note: On Wed., April 18,2007, at 6-8 PM, The live broadcast radio auto racing talk show that was hosted by Joe and Ruth Kelly was in your honor, Mr. Joie Ray. Sincerely yours, Dennis Garrett Richmond,Va.23225 3. Nuck Chorris posted: 11.26.2007 - 8:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) So... was the Joie Ray in the #105 car the African American indy-car driver or the crook? 4. RaceFanX posted: 03.20.2009 - 2:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) L.C. Rigsby's lone NASCAR race 5. Anonymous posted: 08.05.2010 - 3:37 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @ Nuck Chorris He was the African-American Indy Car driver. Ray also flipped in this race, as did Smokey Purser. 6. Zach posted: 12.31.2012 - 7:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lol this race was shortend 11 laps due to tides coming in.Weird 7. Zach posted: 03.17.2013 - 11:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) TIDE INCOMING! 8. Anonymous posted: 10.26.2014 - 12:19 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) DNFs: Smokey Purser- driver injury (he broke his right arm in the crash) Buck Baker- stuck 9. Graham Clayton posted: 06.21.2015 - 7:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Fantastic summary of the race can be found here: http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/forum/topics/february-10-1952-teague-tames-the-beach 10. Anonymous posted: 12.24.2015 - 8:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jack Smith won the 100 mile Modified-Sportsman race the day before, Curtis Turner was second, Joe Weatherly 3rd, Frankie Schneider 4th and Bill Snowden 5th. Tim Flock was flagged as the winner but later disqualified because "the car was not equipped with the proper interior supports" My understanding is that Flock was using wooden roll bars. 11. Spen posted: 12.16.2017 - 2:48 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Pat Kirkwood scored the first pole for Chrysler, both for the brand and the company as a whole. 12. Dennis Garrett posted: 03.02.2018 - 7:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Our Friend and movie stunt driver Joie Ray" #105 Henry J race car. The Joie Ray, whom refer himself as "The Black Joie Ray" was never an "Movie Stunt Driver" or drove NASCAR races. He was an "Winning Race Driver" of non-NASCAR races. The " White Joie Ray", whom claimed to be an movie stunt driver, was hired by "Big Bill France" to shown some excitement in beach race by doing rollover wrecked the "#105 Henry J" in the turn in front of movie cameras. 13. nascarvd/racing-reference.info posted: 02.18.2019 - 11:42 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) W1952-02 Driver standings after this race (Top20): 1) Fonty Flock = 470 points 2) Lee Petty = 413 3) Frank Schneider = 371 4) Bill Blair = 332 5) Marshall Teague = 325 6) Herb Thomas = 312 7) Pat Kirkwood = 299 8) Gober Sosebee = 273 9) Tommy Thompson = 247 10) Tommy Moon = 234 11) Tim Flock = 213 12) Lloyd Moore = 208 13) Larry Shurter = 182 14) Buddy Shuman = 181 15) Leo Caldwell = 174 16) Al Keller = 171 17) Leonard Tippett = 169 18) Frank Mundy = 160 19) Donald Thomas = 156 20) Jim Millard = 152 14. Evan posted: 12.08.2019 - 9:44 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I guess some drivers in the race got stuck on the course. 15. JSPorts posted: 12.08.2019 - 10:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) You'd never see that these days! 16. Jimmie4life posted: 12.08.2019 - 11:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) How do you not plan for the tide? I mean, start the race an hour earlier, or something. 17. RaceFanX posted: 06.10.2020 - 11:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The late Larry Shurter returns to the Cup series after a two-year absence and finishes 12th to claim his best finish on the national tour. He'd go on to run four races in 1952. 18. MSportRev posted: 06.10.2020 - 12:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Based on a newspaper report of the race, 29 cars were running at the end of the race. We have 21 confirmed as running here. So there's eight more that were running while the rest DNF'd. I haven't found who those other eight finished were though. 19. MSportRev posted: 06.17.2020 - 3:00 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) After finding a photo on Twitter, Tommy Thompson's 7th place finish is more impressive because he finished on just three tires. After some additional research, he lost a left front wheel on the 33rd or 34th lap. Despite the handicap, he limped around to finish 7th due to the incoming tide. Whether or not Thompson could have finished had the race not ended early is unclear. 20. MSportRev posted: 08.05.2020 - 2:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Status for Tommy Thompson: crash Thompson crashed into the starter stand per the newsreel footage. Both were uninjured and the flagman began waving the white flag afterwards. Sponsor for Buck McCardell: Mason-Dixon Speedway Sponsor for Leon Sales: Hudson Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_gxXi32zsY 21. QFH posted: 04.03.2021 - 7:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Marshall Teague ran the entire race distance without a pit stop, but shortly after the finish his car stalled out of gas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: