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  1.   Lester Tripus posted:
  12.29.2004 - 4:44 am
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NASCAR records show Bill Elliott running in this race instead of Roger
Hamby. The same discrepancy as with the 1979 race #26 in this database.


  2.   me posted:
  02.06.2008 - 2:35 am
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NASCAR.com shows Roger Hamby in the #17, not Bill Elliott.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  02.06.2008 - 5:47 am
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Last Cup race for John Utsman, a veteran driver best remembered for a
role a relief driver to help Benny Parsons win the only race of his 1973
Championship season at Bristol


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  09.13.2008 - 9:07 pm
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Career win #3 for man known for later driving car #3


  5.   18fan posted:
  03.13.2010 - 5:45 pm
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Earnhardt wins back to back races for the first, but far from the last,
time


  6.   Ivan Balakhonov posted:
  12.16.2018 - 2:12 pm
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Two sources I have (NASCAR 1980 Yearbook and Grand National Scene, Vol.
III No. 37) say that Bill Elliott drove Roger Hamby's car in this race.


  7.   Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted:
  12.16.2018 - 2:25 pm
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@6 like in the actual results?

Cause remember in the old days all you had to do was turn on the keys
and you'd get points, Hamby could have done that.


  8.   David posted:
  12.16.2018 - 3:03 pm
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NASCAR's official race report lists Hamby as the driver.

Those reports do not account for relief drivers, so Elliott may have
been in the car at some point during the race but (as always) the
starting driver gets credit for the stats & points.


  9.   Ivan Balakhonov posted:
  12.16.2018 - 3:19 pm
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The standings printed in the newspaper list Elliott as a driver.
Unfortunately, because the car was not in contention for top-10, there's
no mention about it in the race report, no photos either.

In 1979 Bill drove for Hamby in three races (Bristol-II, Richmond-II,
Rockingham-II), so apparently at that time there was some kind of
partnership between them and Bill entering another race in Bristol in
#17 car seem plausible. However in this case only Bill himself can give
a definite answer, was it him or not.


  10.   rateus posted:
  02.11.2021 - 4:44 pm
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DK Ulrich qualified 16th but handed that ride over to Dick May who had
separately qualified 27th - Travis Tiller took over May's original car.


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