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  1.   hyltonfan60 posted:
  02.09.2009 - 2:29 pm
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Paul Goldsmith's sponsor was Smokey's Best Damn Garage.


  2.   joey2448 posted:
  08.25.2010 - 12:45 am
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what happened in this race??? it was shortened due to a crash?


  3.   Anonymous posted:
  02.19.2011 - 2:48 am
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Billy Myers's car crashed into the crowd. I don't know of any fatalities.


  4.   AnonymousEFR posted:
  04.07.2011 - 1:29 pm
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He went over the wall, actually. A few injuries, but no fatalities.


  5.   Timberwolf Frenzel posted:
  05.15.2015 - 2:16 pm
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I think Lee Petty started sixth, not eighth. His and Billy Myers'
starting positions may be mixed up.


  6.   toomuchcountry posted:
  05.19.2015 - 4:53 pm
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Billy Myers was leading the race with about 60 laps to go. He was trying
to lap Tom Pistone. In doing so, the two collided. Pistone straightened
his car and continued. Myers headed for the wall and then jumped it near
where a crowd of folks were standing. A few were hit by debris, treated
and then released. But a 10 year-old boy suffered a serious but
non-lethal head injury.


  7.   nascar_vd / Racing-Reference.info posted:
  08.21.2017 - 8:57 am
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Note: qualifying results are now available.


  8.   nascar_vd /racing-reference.info posted:
  02.13.2018 - 11:52 am
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Note concerning the withdraw:
Jim Linke #881 was initially 18th in qualifying, withdraw due to engine
problem.

Note: Bill Bowman, initially DNQ and first alternate driver was upgraded
in the starting field with the WD of Jim Linke.


  9.   JG24Ever posted:
  06.17.2019 - 7:37 pm
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Eighth and final start that Ralph Earnhardt made with Petty Enterprises.
It's cool that this was very legendary duo coming together in a time
before that legendary status came to be at the hands of the next
generation.


  10.   MasonShell24 posted:
  12.02.2019 - 9:43 am
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From "The Last Lap" by Peter Golenbock, page 78

Tom Pistone- "I was leading a race at Martinsville, and it started to
drizzle, and I slowed down, and Billy Myers came down the straightaway
and drove right over the hood of my car and went over a concrete wall in
turn number one. There were some spectators standing at the point the
car went off track- they weren't supposed to be standing there, but
Myer's car hit them, and a young boy had a bad head laceration. It
bothered me quite a bit, because I thought the kid got killed, and I
didn't find out until four or five months later that the kid was all
right, and that's when I returned to NASCAR."


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