|| *Comments on the 1971 Islip 250:* View the most recent comment <#19> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Nascar Man posted: 01.24.2007 - 12:23 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) The Friday Hassler's Best Career Finish (2nd) 2. DEIFan16 posted: 08.28.2007 - 1:28 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) 230 laps? It was shortened 20 laps for an error in scoring? Thats funny. 3. RaceFanX posted: 02.03.2008 - 4:03 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Last NASCAR cup for Islip Speedway, perhaps the series shortest track ever. The track was later knocked down and replaced by a cookie factory 4. RaceFanX posted: 02.22.2008 - 3:35 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Doing a start and park in Neil Castles' #06 Dodge, Frog Fagan makes his final start. Good grief, almost 1/3 of the field quit before the race was 4 miles in. What was happening there 5. RaceFanX posted: 02.22.2008 - 3:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only career start for Benny Listman First of two career starts for George Wiltshire 6. kirkyal posted: 06.07.2008 - 2:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Would love to see a driver today get 3 laps in and then think to themselves "nah cant be bothered" and quit!! 7. Ron posted: 10.21.2008 - 2:19 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Back then some drivers would take the green, run a couple of laps and get their money... 8. Ron posted: 10.21.2008 - 2:32 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) I attended 100's of races at Islip and also scored a few Modified races. They had what looked like a rolodex card system that would flip down cards with minutes and seconds on it. When your car passed by you wrote the time down on a sheet given to you by the track. There was scorers up in the booth also. So I presume something happened with the scoring system. I was there but can't remember the reason or it being shortened. Hey thats the way it was back then... 9. Anonymous posted: 05.10.2009 - 12:10 am Rate this comment: (4) (0) 33 cars, .2 miles? I'd quit too! The leader was probably already in their mirrors by the time they saw the green flag... 10. Uptight Motorsports Nerd posted: 01.21.2011 - 12:41 am Rate this comment: (1) (3) At least these start & parks would really say they quit instead of lying about handling problems. I hope Frank Warren put his $10 to good use. 11. crewman posted: 05.22.2011 - 10:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) RON.. if I'm not mistake.. that's still the way CUP does it today. I know I was the scorer for some NASCAR races back 8 years ago or so,.. and they had the same system then. The thing you spoke of they called a "flop clock". Worked just like you said. Scores are still used, as a backup in case the electronic system goes out. If you'll notice when they have a red flag now,.. the cars are never stopped with some cars across the start/finish line and some not. They are all either acorss the line, or all stop before they get to it. This has to do with the scoring system. 12. David posted: 03.08.2012 - 6:18 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) I'm not sure about whether it went on at this race, but there were definitely other races during the 1971 season where a lot of the independent drivers start / parked as a protest over the poor prize money. The $100 that the guys at the bottom of the field got undoubtedly didn't cover their expenses, particularly since they were far from home during the Northern Tour. This a big problem at the smaller short tracks that couldn't pay out a lot of prize money. 13. David (a different one) posted: 06.25.2012 - 7:38 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Things got so bad during 1971, NASCAR permitted the smaller Grand American tour entries to mingle with the Grand Nationals on six occasions. Sometimes, the promoters would reject the GA entries. 14. joey2448 posted: 07.20.2012 - 5:58 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Post #13 - Is that the reason why Bobby Allison complains, to this day, that NASCAR didn't count one of his wins, and he should have 85, not 84, career victories? I believe the story goes that he won in a Chevelle, or something like that, and so NASCAR did not count it? 15. Timberwolf Frenzel posted: 09.19.2012 - 6:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only ever Cup race with two African American drivers: WenDell Scott and George Wiltshire. 16. Rob posted: 05.03.2017 - 9:11 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) To post #14...Reference the 1971 Myers Bros. 250. This is the race that Allison got screwed out of an official GN victory. 17. thog posted: 05.26.2020 - 5:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Pretty sure Frank Warren earned 100 and not 10 18. LS318 posted: 06.18.2020 - 9:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @6 Terry Cheveaux at Talladega in 1996. If he didn't order that chicken sandwich, then Ricky Bobby would've been a pit crewman his whole life and that great documentary about the trials of his 2005 season and his triumphant comeback as an owner-driver would never have been filmed. 19. RaceFanX posted: 07.28.2020 - 1:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #43 Richard Petty- Plymouth by Petty #39 Friday Hassler- See Rock City ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: