following along via X today and I'm put to mind of Night of Destruction at the Stadium ... 🤔

Johnny Rutherford - 1976 National 500 @ CMS (my pic)

Have been giving away packs of M&Ms in memory of Kyle Busch at @NashvilleSuperS. Lot of smiles, thanks, and fist bumps.

Since I was in a Bud Moore conversation this morning, here he is standing in front of his car at Darlington in the spring of 1976. Buddy Baker was the driver. (my pic)

🚨 SOUTHERN LEBANON: HEZBOLLAH’S BORDER VILLAGES ARE BEING ERASED This is what remains of al-Adisa in southern Lebanon, near the Israeli border across from Misgav Am. I spoke with a very senior IDF officer operating in southern Lebanon. Here is what I learned. Israel is making sure Hezbollah and its supporters have nowhere to return to along the border. These villages were turned into Hezbollah forward positions. Now they are no more. At the same time, Christian villages in the area remain intact, with the IDF coordinating with local communities and even facilitating humanitarian aid.

at WGI today …

Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Ukraine war: "It was an attack on the very principles that we tried, however imperfectly, to put in place after the Second World War, to make sure that there wouldn't be another."

Mario Rossi & Darrell Waltrip - 1976 Rebel 500 Darlington prerace (my pic)

Always like this scheme (except for the wheels) ... my pic, Richie Panch - CMS October 1976 DNQ

So when do we get to the point where we have to switch broadcasts during the race? Stage 1: CW Stage 2: FS1 Stage 3: Prime Last 5 laps only for Premium Subscribers Highlights only on ESPN If you’d like to watch the race in it’s entirety wait 1 week and use YouTube Premium

Preface: I'm a nobody who walked entirely away from the sport in 2023. BUT that allows me to speak the truth without repercussions. I got to be part of the last of the 'good old days' where the manufacturers stayed in Detroit and were a partners not a principal. The final years of crew chiefing I would sit in meetings and listen to manufacturers tell me how I should be calling the race 'or else'. Meanwhile they sit in their suite while the CC and drivers take the fall for not obeying orders. At the beginning of my career, the talented people worked for the teams. The kids who couldn't get jobs with teams went to work for manufacturers. I assume this is part of the reasons why the @colepearn of the world aren't involved either. Racing used to be an outlaw sport of pushing the grey area. Now it's Legos and get in line. Manufactures killed it.

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What's happening? All the engines started when the dude called GSYE ... I don't understand, aren't they saving fuel? /sarc

Bobby Allison - CMS 1977

The fans in the stands are all Indycar fans, first truck race for everyone I talked to. They were very animated and loved two wide and beating and banging. However, we lost them w all the yellow laps at stages, they couldn’t understand why and really thought it was dumb.

1977 Talledega 500 winner headed to inspection after VL - started by D Allison, finished by D Waltrip

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Amen to that. Great lyric, great song 🎶 #lynyrdskynyrd