|| *Comments on the 1973 Talladega 500:* View the most recent comment <#66> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. James Reisdorf posted: 03.14.2005 - 10:16 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Only career win for Dick Brooks, but it was overshadowed by a crash which killed defending rookie of the year Larry Smith. 2. Chicago posted: 11.30.2005 - 11:15 pm Rate this comment: (2) (1) Larry Smith was killed in what was a relatively minor impact with the wall -- indeed, right after his Carling Black Label Mercury scraped along the wall, his crew was already preparing to fix it. The real story behind his death, which was due to 'major head injuries', is that his helmet had been irritating his scalp for some time, and he tore out all of the padding and inner liner. Talk about a ticking timebomb ... any minor hit would've turned into disaster. He had been driving for two laps on a flattened right front tire trying to impress Carling Black Label executives who were at the race en masse. His year up until that point had been a disaster. 3. Darrell posted: 12.10.2005 - 1:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Thanks for the info Chicago. 4. Darrell posted: 01.02.2006 - 4:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wasn't this the race where Bobby Isaac quit the race because a voice in his head told him to? 5. Chicago posted: 01.15.2006 - 11:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Indeed it was. He was deathly afraid of a heart attack and bailed out of the car when the voices became too strong for him to ignore. Needless to say, Bud Moore was stunned. He couldn't stay away from the sport, though, and toiled in some horrid cars before he eventually did die of a heart attack during a local short track race. 6. Darrell posted: 01.23.2006 - 10:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This is probably one of the more bizarre races in NASCAR history. 7. Chicago posted: 02.24.2006 - 3:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) And also has some "new life", if that's the right term, about it with the tragic loss of Richard Brooks due to a heart attack earlier this February. Rest in peace, Dick. You were quite a character. :) 8. HomeDepotKid posted: 02.27.2006 - 8:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Also, if I remember reading correctly, this was the only top-15(!) in the history of that team, which Richard Brooks took to victory in this race. 9. Steve posted: 05.19.2006 - 9:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) You are correct, HomeDepotKid. Jimmy Crawford could only finish 16th for the Crawford Brothers team, and he did so 3 times. 10. Anonymous posted: 10.25.2006 - 3:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) To this date, the Plymouth marque's final victory in Winston Cup racing. 11. Destiny posted: 04.10.2007 - 6:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I saw it on TV and a magazine. I remember Larry Smith got killed in a crash on Lap 13. After the Race, Bobby Isaac tries to quit Bud Moore Racing. So Darrell Waltrip tries to switch to #95 to #15 next week. I remember Richard Harold "Dick" Brooks ran faster than 19 laps and hold on for the win. Rest in Peace, Dick, you are my best friend. 12. biffle16 posted: 05.20.2007 - 8:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) FYI, Roger Williamson was killed a couple of weeks before this race in a tragic Grand Prix accident. Read the story on Wikipedia, it's very heartbreaking. This poor driver went out of his way to help Williamson. He got out of his car DURING THE RACE, and these idiotic firemen shooed him away. :( 13. DEIFan16 posted: 09.04.2007 - 2:55 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) On a happier note, first race with over 60 lead changes! 14. Anonymous posted: 12.06.2007 - 5:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "FYI, Roger Williamson was killed a couple of weeks before this race in a tragic Grand Prix accident. Read the story on Wikipedia, it's very heartbreaking. This poor driver went out of his way to help Williamson. He got out of his car DURING THE RACE, and these idiotic firemen shooed him away." Wow, you sure know your racing! 15. Steve posted: 01.10.2009 - 2:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) To add more to the Williamson story, he blew a tire and crashed on Lap 8 in the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in The Netherlands. His car flipped and caught fire, but fortunately fellow March Engineering entrant (but not a team mate) David Purley saw the fire and stopped immediately. The track marshals merely stood there at the scene, appearing to be very underrehearsed for the incident (not even wearing fire-retardant clothing!), and as they stumbled around Purley ran across the track, grabbed the fire extunguisher, and attempted to put out the flames after trying to flip the car onto its wheels. But the flames grew, and as Roger continued to call for help (verifying that he was still alive), the extinguisher fluid ran out. By this time, a TV camera mounted about a mile away shows the smoke billowing high into the air (perhaps 1/2 mile). Purley pleaded angrily with the marshalls to do something, but he was foolishly shooed away, and he has no further choice but to walk away as Williamson burned to death in an otherwise survivable accident. Perhaps the saddest moment in racing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5-6taeWRQ But on a lighter note, Purley was presented with the George Medal for his act of bravery. A hero, indeed. 16. Doc posted: 03.02.2010 - 4:49 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) What a strange race. Poor Dick Brooks' only win. He should've had more than one. 17. 00andJoe posted: 10.28.2010 - 8:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Question, who took over the #15 to finish the race after Issac bailed out? 18. sk posted: 05.06.2011 - 9:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @17, coo coo marlin finished the race in isaac's car. http://insiderracingnews.com/Writers/Guest/PK/042510.html 19. Walleyewhacker posted: 07.04.2011 - 12:36 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) Any race in 1973 where Pearson ran and didn't win was really an upset! 11 out of 18 was total domination, and it would have been 12 out of 19 had there been an August race at MIS. 20. autryvilleracefan posted: 10.27.2011 - 1:24 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) According to a newspaper article I read from 1973, Larry Smith had said before the start of this race that he "had a score to settle" with Talladega because of the bad luck he had there. He mentioned getting caught up in the massive pileup in the Winston 500 in May 1973 as his most recent misfortunate at Talladega. Smith said, "I have a score to settle at Talladega. I have never been able to run well at this track. Things happen here that don't happen anywhere else." 21. rob posted: 06.06.2012 - 10:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) the audio of this race is now on the motoracing network site under classic races. i listened to the broadcast live as a teenager and it's still one of the best races ever except for the death of smith. 22. rob posted: 06.07.2012 - 1:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) jim vandiver drove the car normally driven by john sears after john's brother was killed in a dirt track event just a few days earlier. 23. Schroeder51 posted: 09.24.2012 - 6:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I recently found an image online featuring an old newspaper clipping that actually shows a photo of Larry Smith's fatal crash. Indeed it doesn't look like a terrible crash; a hard hit for sure but not one that looks like it would be fatal. Judging by the picture, it looks to me like his safety harness may have failed in the crash. Here's the link (Warning: contains the image of a fatal crash): http://media.photobucket.com/image/larry%20smith%20nascar/moparmanpettyfan/larrysmithkilledatdega.jpg 24. Schroeder51 posted: 09.25.2012 - 2:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only career Cup start for Bob Davis. 25. Schroeder51 posted: 09.27.2012 - 2:44 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Gave the MRN radio broadcast of this race a listen on the "Classic Races" section of their website. Raymond Williams and Charlie Roberts were both alternates for this race; they replaced Ron Keselowski and Richard D. Brown who both withdrew. Neil Bonnett was a DNQ for this race; he crashed in the consolation race run the day before. Although Jabe Thomas started this race, he got out of the car after just one lap and Roy Mayne drove his car for the rest of the race. Dick Brooks was actually a lap behind with less than 20 laps to go. But with a little more than 10 laps to go, Buddy Baker's car started smoking (due to a hole in his oil filter) and Brooks made his lap up in the race to the resulting caution. He took the lead from David Pearson on the restart and pulled away from Pearson to win by a rather large margin of victory as Pearson's car dropped back due to a dropped valve. Brooks' car had a Mickey Mouse decal on its' hood. By finishing 3rd in this race, Pearson became the second NASCAR driver to reach $1,000,000 in career winnings (Petty was the first, obviously). The 64 lead changes and 15 different leaders in this race were both at the time NASCAR records. The cautions were... 1: #92 Larry Smith crash, turns 1 and 2 (around lap 15) (As we all know, Smith lost his life in this crash. RIP Larry.) 2: #54 Lennie Pond engine failure (around lap 35) 3: #02 L. D. Ottinger spin, turns 1 and 2 (around lap 75) 4: #4 Jim Vandiver engine failure (around lap 90) (Bobby Isaac got out of his car under this caution after hearing voices telling him to quit, Coo Coo Marlin replaced him) 5: #96 Richard Childress stalled, turn 4 (around lap 125) 6: #12 Bobby Allison, #88 Donnie Allison crash, turns 3 and 4 (around lap 160) 7. #71 Buddy Baker oil on track (around lap 175) 26. J Louis Frey posted: 08.05.2013 - 7:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) According to the MRN broadcast Richard Brown and Ron Keselowski qualified but dropped out. Raymond Williams and Charlie Roberts took their place. Roberts won the qualifying race the day before. Neil Bonnett crashed in the qualifier and his car caught on fire. Broderick Crawford, the Hollywood actor, was Honorary starter. Bart Starr, former NFL quarterback, was the Grand Marshall. 27. rob posted: 08.09.2013 - 10:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I don't think the qualifying results that you have for this race are actually for this race. Looks more like results for Charlotte. 28. rob posted: 08.09.2013 - 10:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Just figured out that the qualifying results are from the 1973 Dixie 500 at Atlanta. 29. rob posted: 12.18.2013 - 11:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Brooks and Isaac actually collided on pit road during one of the pit stop sequences with both cars ending up in the grass. Brooks lost a lap at that point, but still ran as fast as the leaders when he returned. 30. rob posted: 12.18.2013 - 11:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Brooks was slated to drive a car for Tom Pistone in this race, but the car never showed and the Crawfords asked him to take their ride. 31. rob posted: 12.18.2013 - 11:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This would have probably made the list of the all time greatest NASCAR races had Smith not had his fatal crash. The previous high for lead changes was 54. The win by Brooks represented one of the greatest upsets in NASCAR history. 32. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:03 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) L.D.Ottinger ran extremely strong in just his third career start. He battled for the lead at various points before fading to a 10th place finish. 33. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 18th place finisher Bill Ward was a local driver. He won a NASCAR Grand American touring series event at the track in 1970. 34. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Best career start for Ed Sczech. 35. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) BTW, Sczech was driving the car that had finished fourth in the previous Talladega race for the late Clarence Lovell. 36. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) First career laps led for Walter Ballard. 37. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:23 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Career first single lap led by Richard Childress. 38. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Career first single lap led by Marty Robbins. 39. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) First career laps led by David Sisco. 40. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:36 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) In a USAC stock car race a month earlier, Ramo Stott driviung for Jack Housby was eliminated in a crash with Hoss Ellington's driver Gordon Johncock. In a great show of sportsmanship, Ellington gave his care over to Stott for this race. 41. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:43 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Last of five 1973 starts for Paul Tyler in a car owned by Norris Reed. Tyler drove the final 1973 race at Rockingham for Frank Warren and never raced on the tour again. 42. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:48 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Harley Smith ( I think he was Larry's dad) never fielded another car in Grand National racing. 43. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 12:52 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Bill Ward drove all seven of his career races at Talladega. 44. rob posted: 12.19.2013 - 11:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Much of my info came from the archived MRN broadcast. 45. nascar_vd / racing-reference posted: 12.23.2013 - 7:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rob, why not consider consolidating maximum info in one comment? It would be more readable for everyone. 08.09.2013 = 2 comments (= ok) 12.18.2013 = 3 comments (= ok) 12.19.2013 = 13 comments (=... not really Ok...) Thank you in advance. 46. Rob posted: 12.24.2013 - 1:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sorry. I kept coming up with interesting tidbits and posted each one as I thought of it. 47. nascar_vd / racing-reference posted: 12.24.2013 - 9:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) All info are very interesting, It's just a matter of readability for visitors. 48. rob posted: 12.25.2013 - 9:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Gotcha. Thanks for the compliment. 49. DozierTheGreat posted: 01.28.2014 - 4:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Some sponsors: #30-Hekimian Foreign Cars #22- Got good shots all the way around, do not see Eastern Airlines anywhere. I see large C, with a capital E on the inside. May be a Crawford Brothers logo? Definitely see a large Mickey Mouse on the hood. Can anyone else confirm this? 50. We need more Onion posted: 07.24.2014 - 10:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Relatively minor impact" and the crew getting ready to fix the car for Larry Smith is probably bullshite. http://api.ning.com/files/yI5mkdONmaJUNMZFwoBZkY7YIkgtzR59GzkCVQKhPiVj*FcBjOzQy7ScsMY4u7k3Rvm1FwkLxdxqNZoCiieeUAXprhrOpXeC/1973Talladega500LarrySmithGadsdenTimes.png This looks like a very hard hit. Certainly not repairable. 51. Terry Maynard posted: 11.30.2014 - 1:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In response to comment 49 by DozierTheGreat: You are correct, the car Dick Brooks was driving did have Mickey Mouse on the hood and the lettering you are referring to was the logo for Crawford Enterprises. Eastern Airlines was not on the car. The car was a '72 Plymouth that was the same car Gordon Johncock had raced the year before at Charlotte with sponsorship from Eastern Airlines. Jimmy Crawford also attempted to qualify the same car at Rockingham the previous year with Eastern Airlines on the quarter panels. The car owner, Jimmy Crawford, had planned on driving the car himself in this race. NASCAR and representatives of the speedway at Talladega felt that he didn't have enough experience to drive the car. I don't know if this had anything to do with the Mickey Mouse on the hood or not. It wasn't until a few days before the race that Brooks was chosen as the driver. 52. nascarman posted: 08.18.2015 - 12:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) http://racing-reference.info/showblog?id=2297 53. RaceFanX posted: 08.18.2015 - 11:18 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Sponsor: #22 Dick Brooks- Mickey Mouse / Crawford Enterprises Somehow I doubt Disney gave the Crawford's any money for that graphic. Nice to see Mickey got on a car well before Bugs Bunny and the Looney Toons/Chevrolet promotion in 2001 though. 54. rob posted: 06.28.2016 - 6:11 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) #51. Crawford drove in the May 1972 event at the track so it wasn't going to be his maiden run. However, he did cause a late race crash which took out Bobby Isaac. 55. rob posted: 08.17.2016 - 11:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) One more bizarre twist. Isaac and Coo Coo died on the same day of the year August 4, eighteen years apart. Isaac started this race 18 positions ahead of Marlin. It was Marlin who relieved Isaac when Bobby heard his voices. 56. rob posted: 08.17.2016 - 11:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Scratch last post. This is what happens when you research way past your bedtime. Sorry. 57. Billy P posted: 08.18.2016 - 9:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cecil Gordon # 24 was in his 1972 Chevy Monte Carlo, not a Mercury. 58. Steve Horton posted: 12.07.2016 - 12:00 am Rate this comment: (4) (0) I was one of the guys that showed up with the Crawford team I helped on the car at only 17 years old. The story behind Mickey mouse on the hood was a comment made by Bill France stating that we were a mickey mouse race team so we put Mickey on the hood imagine that nothing to my knowledge after that was ever said 59. RaceFanX posted: 12.07.2016 - 1:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) That's a pretty cool update Steve. Thanks for posting. You guys pulled off an amazing upset here. 60. Canadianfan posted: 12.07.2016 - 11:40 am Rate this comment: (3) (0) I found this before and posted it to a blog. Like many of the folks from the Atlanta area, my group and I were closely watching one of the cars that many expected to be a back-marker that day. It was a 1972 Plymouth, painted in the black and gold colors and carrying the No. 22 made famous by the late Fireball Roberts. For today's race fans, that would be like a start-up team showing up at the track with a black No. 3 Chevrolet. The car was fielded by two Eastern Airlines pilots, brothers Jimmy and Peter Crawford. Jimmy, often the driver, had been discouraged by NASCAR from driving in the race because of a crash in his previous Talladega appearance. So a deal was worked for journeyman Dick Brooks to take the wheel. From the chicken bone section, it was apparent from the start that Brooks' machine was a fast one. Many a lap saw him drop to the inside of the long backstretch and blow by a string of cars like the rude motorist who ignores the 'Left Lane Closed Ahead' signs on the highway and speeds by the slowing motorists in the right lane before darting in front just as his lane closes. Brooks needed the straightaway speed because the car was a clunker in the corners, and his pit crew, a rag-tag bunch of amateurs, lost him a lap or so on most stops. But when it counted, Brooks motored by the top stars of the day and drove the black Plymouth all the way to Victory Lane. In a few years, the Crawfords had dropped off the NASCAR circuit. But one night in the late 1980s, Jimmy showed up in the pits at Senoia Raceway, where I was covering the weekly show. We started talking about the Talladega win, and that's when I learned the real story behind the Crawfords' upset victory. The win, it seems, wasn't so unlikely after all. The Plymouth had been built originally by Mario Rossi, one of the top mechanics of his era. But the real secret to the speed was under the big black hood, the area where Peter Crawford worked his magic. Peter Crawford, it turned out, was a mechanical genius. With NASCAR forcing the big- block engines of that era to run restrictor plates, Crawford set about to design an induction system that would maximize the air flow to his engine despite the plate. He wound up designing his own intake manifold, which he built according to the specifications in the rule book. He submitted it to NASCAR, and it was approved, as long as he made similar manifolds available to the other Plymouth teams; which he did. What NASCAR officials didn't realize at the time was the effectiveness of Crawford's creation. When the power plant was hooked to a dynamometer at an Atlanta-area race shop, the engine produced more power than the dyno could measure. So Crawford made his own dyno. Even with the restrictor plate attached, the engine cranked out far in excess of 600 horsepower. So it was really no surprise that Brooks was able to run so fast on the straightaways, especially since the brothers had also used their aerodynamic knowledge to tweak the body. And this was in the days before trips to wind tunnels were commonplace. The win wasn't just a surprise to the fans in the stands that day, it was something that NASCAR founder and track owner Bill France Sr. didn't expect â?" or appreciate. According to the Crawfords, France summoned them to NASCAR headquarters in Daytona Beach for a meeting, where he informed Peter that his manifold was being outlawed. Peter protested, saying his creation fit every spec in the rule book. France, he said, responded that it didn't. So Crawford respectfully asked France to show him where he was in violation. According to Crawford, France had him turn the rule-book pages back from the engine specs toward the front of the book. He had Crawford read the opening sentence. It read: 'All parts must be NASCAR approved.' That was his violation, and with that ruling, one of the slickest parts ever run in NASCAR was never seen at the track again. Bill France Sr. had done the job the modern-day medicine man seeks to do. He restored balance to Talladega Superspeedway. 61. steve horton posted: 05.24.2018 - 5:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy and peter Crawford were the best fabricators in NASCAR history I was one of the rag tag pit crew but we pulled it off , Both Jimmy and Pete were way ahead of their time.if folks only the time and the mechanical genuis these men done they pretty much invented throttle body fuel injection way before its time bill france was an idoit,he did not know the the intelligence of the brothers and crew as a rag tag pit crew member WE WON HANDS DOWN 62. roydmercer posted: 10.15.2019 - 1:23 am Rate this comment: (4) (0) First, we WON this race. It was no accident. We had experience in other races. We qualified well. We pitted the car well if not as fast as the Woods' Bros. We made the right calls and adjustments to the car before and during the race. Second, we didn't just stumble into Talladega and win... the amount of brains, thought, mechanical ability, and labor that went into this adventure was unbelievable. This win remains to this day as the last victory by any independent team in a 500 mile NASCAR race. It's never happened again. There isn't enough space here for the whole story but I worked on this car night and day... crewed the car at races including the T. 500 in '73... helped build the motor and several of the body pieces. There's far more to this amazing story than is posted.... and a lot more to Pete Crawford's brains plus incredible "creative engineering." Some of the trick stuff we created belongs in a museum someplace but will never see the light of day. Of course, neither will what the Woods' Brothers or Allison or the Pettys or Junior or certainly Harry Hyde or many others did and still do. Peter's brother, Jimmy, was highly intelligent himself and both had degrees from Clemson... Pete in Mechanical Engineering; Jimmy in Applied Mathematics I believe. Of the others, myself and my college roomie also held Bachelors and we brought in some folks with aero as well as fluid flow expertise when needed. To correct some misinformation above: 1) The car handled perfectly fine in the turns but it ran hot all day... like 245 degrees hot. On top of that the air temp was in the 90's and poor Dick was almost cooked when he got out of the thing. The chassis was built originally as a "long track" car but Talladega was a unique beast with allot of download in the banking so the steering was heavy but not a wrestling match. 2) It was fast as a bullet in a straight line because I dynoed that Hemi motor at 705BHP at Pete Hamilton's race shop in Norcorss, Ga. It was clear we had an edge and Peter's genius had paid off. (Pete Crawford and I built a heat exchanger for Hamilton's new dynamometer in exchange for using it. (Hamilton was another extremely bright college grad. Hated France, too. My kinda guy!) 3) The manifold mentioned above was not on this car in 1973. It came later. 4) France and the inspectors were too stupid to figure out what that particular manifold really did which pissed 'em off. So France banned it. 5) Bill France could not stand "outsiders" meddling with his cash cow 'cause it was bad for his wallet. Plus a couple of other "professional" teams didn't appreciate a bunch of "nobodies" rubbing their noses in it or invading their turf either. We were officially persona non grata in '76 when we turned a 199MPH lap in the Spring at Talladega using a smaller 750CFM carb AND a restrictor plate. Maurice Petty went absolutely ballistic and said that speed was impossible. They were right, too! :-) SO rather than allow NASCAR to tear the car apart which was not in the Rules (imagine that) we loaded up and came back to College Park, Ga. By that time the rules were drastically changing and the expense of keeping up was unrealistic. We hung it up and moved on to real lives in business. Dick was greatly under appreciated as a driver and drove a fine race that day just as he had on other occasions. He expertly maneuvered the car to a position for a victory over the last 10-15 laps. In my mind he deserved more recognition and a far better NASCAR career. Sadly, he too was regarded as another "outsider" as he was from California and that didn't really change until Jeff Gordon came along way later. He was a great guy, easy to work with, and I'm sure he's missed by all his friends, associates, and family. He helped me have a a very special day that I'll never forget. Not many can say they hopped in Winston Cup car's passenger window and rode into victory lane at Talladega. (Footnote: Larry Smith's pit stall was right next to ours that day. An inertia reel that anchored the shoulder harness to the roll cage behind the driver's seat failed in his crash and his head struck the roll cage tube above the steering wheel killing him instantly. Those reels were common and came out of military aircraft so drivers could "relax" the shoulder harness if need be during caution laps. They were immediately banned following Smith's tragic death.) 63. Pale_Writer posted: 10.15.2019 - 7:54 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) My favorite "upset" of all time. The Crawford Brothers were geniuses whose "smarts" will likely never be fully appreciated, and Dick Brooks' talent as a driver was far, far greater than his stats will ever show. If he had landed with the right team he would have likely won more races. Jimmy Crawford gave me a drawing of that intake back in the 1990s and it was truly a work of art. roydmercer, wasn't that Plymouth the same ex-Ray Fox car that Cale ran at Daytona in '72? 64. MentallyWill posted: 01.11.2020 - 2:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It seems like MRN took the broadcast down. Does anybody know where to find a backup? 65. rateus posted: 05.30.2020 - 3:34 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Looking at ebay listings and the October 1973 issue of Stock Car Racing has Larry Smith's #92 as cover story with the tag line "How he sold himself to Carling, and how Carling sold itself on racing". Surely a contender for the worst timing in editorial history... 66. rateus posted: 02.20.2021 - 3:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Richard Brown qualified 39th and Ron Keselowski qualified 50th before they withdrew. Dick May qualified for Bob Davis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: