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  1.   jackie posted:
  09.03.2007 - 9:14 pm
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This was the first Bristol Night race. I bought tickets the afternoon of
the race. I dont think it was a sellout.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.17.2009 - 10:41 pm
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Roger Hamby's best Cup finish in 10th


  3.   Mahbub posted:
  02.28.2013 - 11:18 pm
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I believe this Nascar's first ever scheduled night race


  4.   Mike Daly posted:
  05.28.2013 - 6:44 pm
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The two Nashville races were NASCAR's first scheduled night races (as
far as Modern Era Cup goes).

This was the race where Darrell Waltrip said he would replace Lennie
Pond in Ranier's car; Darrell sideswiped Pond and Pond later crashed
into Waltrip with a blown tire.

One of the might-have-beens of the decade was that Richard Petty wanted
Pond as a teammate out of the Petty Ent. shops, but sponsorship for a
second Dodge never developed.


  5.   Paul posted:
  06.18.2014 - 2:02 pm
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The car Richard Petty ran in this race was actually loaned to him from
Henley Gray's team. This was only 2 weeks after switching to GM from
Chrysler, and the only race-ready Chevy Petty had in his fleet had been
written off in a wreck the previous week at Michigan.


  6.   oldschoolracing519 posted:
  11.05.2017 - 7:36 pm
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what #5 says is correct, so Henley Gray should be listed as the owner
for this race


  7.   Ivan Balakhonov posted:
  08.21.2018 - 8:22 am
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Poor Lennie Pond had a nightmare of a race.

Started from pole, led until lap 31 then Darrell, while making a pass
for the lead, apparently cut a tire on Lennie's car. At least that is
how Lennie explained his spin afterwards. Soon after - another incident.
Cecil Gordon shoved Lennie to the guardrail and made him almost leap the
wall. And the final straw: on lap 107 Lennie spun Waltrip (Pond denied
it was intentional, Darrell thought otherwise) and that was enough for
Harry Ranier. He reportedly ordered Lennie to park the car, being
furious that the race is turning into the shoving match between his
current and future driver (before Bristol Ranier and Waltrip agreed to
personal terms for 1979 and the only question was how to negotiate the
buying off Darrell's contract with DiGard).

The bad blood between Waltrip and Pond had its roots in 1973, when
Lennie was named ROTY and Darrell was voicing his displeasure with this
decision, claiming that he was a better choice for the award.


  8.   Jimmie4life posted:
  09.04.2020 - 5:06 pm
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Based upon the average speed and race length, this race took 180.42
minutes, or 3 hours and 25 seconds, not 3 hours and 25 minutes.


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