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  1.   Anonymous posted:
  04.14.2009 - 12:31 am
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Frank Warren was supposed to drive Car 0, the same with Jim Lineberger
in Car 13. Info found from the starting position list.


  2.   Anonymous posted:
  03.31.2010 - 12:13 am
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DNQ's:
#02-Ray Hendrick, #09-Wayne Gillette, #16-Paul Dean Holt, #80-Danny Turner
(Thanks to the results of the qualifier on this site)


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.03.2010 - 12:28 am
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Richard Petty's 9th and final win at the wheel of a Ford before he
returned to Plymouth in 1970


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.03.2010 - 12:37 am
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Also Cup win #101 for the King


  5.   Terry Maynard posted:
  10.29.2014 - 4:48 pm
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The 11th caution of the race occurred on lap 462, not 420 as shown.
Richard Petty had just passed David Pearson on lap 461 to get back on
the lead lap. This left Pearson, Buddy Baker, and Petty as the only 3
cars on the lead lap. Seconds later, a beer can that was thrown from the
grandstands hit the windshield of Petty's Ford. On the very next lap,
the caution came out for debris (the beer can on the track). Pearson and
Baker pitted under the caution, giving the lead to Petty on lap 465.
Petty was able to hold them both off for the win. Baker finished in
third, on the lead lap - not 4 laps down as shown. Several beer cans and
other debris were thrown onto the track during the race as many of the
fans were showing their displeasure at drivers who had boycotted the
race at Talladega two weeks earlier.


  6.   KW posted:
  02.04.2016 - 1:07 pm
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Bugs Stevens won the 100 lap Modified race run here the day before the
GN race.


  7.   Spen posted:
  05.20.2017 - 9:17 pm
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Petty gains the lead during a late race debris caution. Are we sure this
is 1969?


  8.   Busch77 posted:
  12.07.2018 - 2:49 pm
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From the Dave Despain Talladega Documentary, it is believed that Richard
Brickhouse's crash is retaliation for him withdrawing from the
Professional Driver's Association and racing at Talladega two races
prior (which he won). Apparently a driver (or two) gave the head's up to
a photographer that they should stand at a certain spot in the infield
to get "good pictures of the race"... the spot was near where Brickhouse
was wrecked.


  9.   JSPorts posted:
  12.07.2018 - 4:13 pm
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That's stupid. Nothing like bullying the guy because he was willing to
do something you weren't.


  10.   MSportRev posted:
  12.30.2019 - 8:44 pm
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DNQs:

41. Ken Meisenhelder

42. Bobby Parker

43. Wayne Gillette in a Chevrolet owned by E.C. Reid

44. Ray Hendrick in a Chevrolet owned by Ray Hendrick

45. Paul Dean Holt in a Mercury owned by Dennis Holt

46. Danny Turner in a Chevrolet owned by E.C. Reid

47. J.D. McDuffie


  11.   Tom posted:
  08.31.2020 - 1:49 pm
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@9 The scab stabbed them in the back and helped ensure no union ever
took hold in NASCAR.

Imagine how many lives could have been saved had a driver's union
demanded safety features that instead were only implemented after a
death. NASCAR dragges their knuckles, head in the sand on safety for
decades, and Talladega was a prime example.


  12.   ScottB posted:
  08.31.2020 - 3:14 pm
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Brickhouse was driving for a different owner here than at Talladega, so
the anger was partially misdirected.


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