#nascar winston cup series

[justahillbillyfromouterspace]

just watched 1986 Winston Cup race from Richmond today was cool Earnhardt was pissed at Waltrip dumped him and wrecked himself so Kyle Petty won hahahahaaa

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[captainfreelance1]

DeviantArt Description- A Winner Down Under

'February 28, 1988

Calder Park Thunderdome, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Pipe Fitter turned NASCAR Driver Neil Bonnett is about to make history, by becoming first man to win a NASCAR race outside the North American continent; He is a member of a fabled group friends known as 'The Alabama Gang' this group is comprised of fellow drivers Bobby Allison, Donnie Allison and Red Farmer, whose careers like his began on the Alabama Dirt and Short Track scene before reaching the ranks of NASCAR.

Calder Park Raceway was the vision of Australian Businessman Bob Jane, who seeks too bring superspeedway excitement to the Land Down Under; Jane promotes this new track and manages to convincing the American based NASCAR into holding their first ever overseas exhibition race, with the finest race car drivers of both the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Australia to participate.

Neil Bonnett driving the Rahmoc Enterprises No. 75 Valvoline sponsored Pontiac Grand Prix, accepts the challenge realizing the rare opportunity that lays ahead of him; Neil remains calm and cool the under pressures placed upon him by the new track and the unforgiving heat, he has won a number races before this including one at Richmond the before week; He dominates field leading several laps holding off friend and rival Bobby Allison, Bonnett handles the car with the ease of a relaxing Sunday drive thorough his native Hueytown; Neil's patience pays off as the checkered flag drops he scores his first and only win on foreign soil, thus making him a rare back to back winner on two separate continents.'

[opsbritney]

BRITNEY SPEARS The Nascar Winston Cup Series Pepsi 400 in Daytona (2001)

[roe-and-memory]

Okay so I'm gonna take a few things from real life here so bear with me.

So IRL Nascar has drivers switch cars every time they make a new aero package so everyone is on a level playing field. But chassis are the same more or less as the Gen 6 car was basically a reskined car of tomorrow which used the same chassis before the next gen gen 7 car came out.

Do rules like that apply in the piston cup?

i think so, yeah!! i like to believe that the piston cup is literally just nascar with a different name (especially due to the reference of Piston cup with Winston cup, which is what the nascar cup series was called up until 2003)

i think they work basically the same, i think that the tracks that are unnamed in the cars universe are just the same (or slightly edited versions) of their real life counterparts, and i think the paint schemes work the same way - with every so often a driver has a different main sponsor for a race. i think keeping these rules for the piston cup like the ones we have in nascar adds more room for creativity as writers and artists arent stuck trying to make up rules, even if theyre simply using the real life rules as guidelines for their own add-ons.

this was a lovely ask, thank you!!

[explosive-aircooled]

just remember the time AMC won the fucking Winston Cup in Nascar in 1973. In a fucking Matador.

I can imagine the meeting with Roger Penske and Mark Donahue. AMC: “listen, can we get Mr. Penske on the phone?We wanna enter nascar.” Penske: “should we build something like the Trans Am cars? The Javelin? It’s a proper sports car. It already won the series in ‘71 and 72. It’ll be great against the chargers and Torinos. AMC: “ok, so you know the Matador?” Donahue: “the cop cars?” AMC: “yes. That’s exactly what we want. It’s gonna be great for our sporty racing image. We wanna race are boxiest and most unaerodynamic car in our lineup…”

[jwclapton]

I've been tagged by @shedreamsintechnicolor to do this. Many thanks, love! I've missed doing these. 😊

Last song: The Gregg Allman Band – 'I'm No Angel'.

Song stuck in my head: Eric Clapton – 'Too Bad'.

Currently watching: Mystery Diagnosis.

Favorite colors: Any dark shade of blue.

Currently reading: The Earnhardt Collection. It covers all of his NASCAR Cup wins, including non-championship ones (the Busch Clash, the Daytona qualifiers, and The Winston).

Currently craving: To be held and to fall asleep in someone's arms, even once, would put me so right.

Last movie: Young Frankenstein.

Sweet, spicy, or savory: Both sweet and spicy.

Relationship status: Single.

Current obsession: The Beetlejuice animated series.

Last thing Googled: 'platonic love songs'.

Three favorite foods: Pizza, pasta, and buffalo chicken.

Dream trip: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, to watch the 500 there someday.

Anything you want right now: To have the best holiday season I've had in a long while. I'm really looking forward to it this year.

Tagging – @darkvictories-fullheart, @gingerbreadland, @jackbeauregards, @maudeboggins, and @norashelley.

[nascarwallpapers]

2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series: Steve Park, #1 Pennzoil Chevrolet, Dale Earnhardt Inc. Download full resolution & extras on Patreon.

[racecargraveyard]

2000 Dale Earnhardt #3 GM Goodwrench Service Plus Atlanta Win Raced Version Custom. Earnhardt held off Bobby Labonte in a photo finish for his 75th career NASCAR Winston Cup Series win, beating Labonte by 0.010 of a second.

[foreverbritney]

The Nascar Winston Cup Series Pepsi 400 in Daytona - July 7, 2001

[waybackwanderer]

rpm.espn.com: NASCAR Winston Cup Series Oct 2003 Archived Web Page 🧩

[benjaminftw]

Journeyman Appreciation: Bobby Dotter

Following the theme of my last post in this series, I wanted to spotlight somebody else who found another niche in racing after the end of his driving career: Bobby Dotter. 

Born in Chicago, Bobby Dotter was the son of a midwestern legend, Bob Dotter who despite having just one arm won three ARCA championships in the 1980s. While dominating Illinois short tracks in late models, Bobby spent much of the 1980s making sporadic starts in the ARCA series in which his father had had so much success, with a best finish of 5th at Pocono 1983 and a handful of top 10s but never running more than 4 races in a season. 

In 1988, Bobby began racing in the Busch Grand National Series which would be his home for a number of years going forward, driving a car owned by his father in a limited schedule focused on the short tracks, showing real flashes of promise with a pole at the tricky Louisville and top 10s at the legendary Hickory and IRP tracks. In 1989 Bobby made just one start, but it was a top 10 finish at Martinsville and the first start for the car owner he’d spend a bulk of his career with, Ed Reizen in his number 08 car. 

In 1990 Dotter and Reizen would run their first full season together. Although they DNQ’d at two of the biggest events on the schedule, the Daytona 500 and World 600 support races, Bobby proved very good on the short tracks picking up 8 finishes inside the top 10 over the course of the year and best finish of 4th at Myrtle Beach Speedway, ending the year 14th in points. Still under sponsored, Dotter backslid in terms of average start, average finish, and had half the top 10s in 1991 but tied his career best finish of 4th at South Boston and once again came home 14th in the final standings. 

In 1992 Bobby had his crowning achievement in NASCAR, winning a race at the New River Valley Speedway in Southwest VA (later better known as “Motor Mile Speedway”, and the hometrack of this writer where he has been multiple times to catch local racing) in convincing fashion but putting up identical top 5 and top 10 numbers as the year before and seeing his average finish drop a bit, placing 16th in points. 

In 1993 Reizen and Dotter finally picked up substantial sponsorship from DeWalt tools which led to a dramatic turnaround for that team, matching career highs in top 10s (8) and a best ever top 5 count (3) and placing solidly in the 7th place in points, a feat that would be replicated with one less top 5 in 1994, in both years managing to outpoint numerous better known drivers with wins to their credit. In 1995 DeWalt was replaced by Hyde Tools, and while the team still managed 6 top 10s they had a dramatic increase in DNFs including a number of engine failures and a DNQ at Richmond and slid back to 14th in points. Reizen’s team shut down at the end of the year.

Thus began the true journeyman portion of his career, having consistently driven for the same owner for most of his time. While Bobby started 1996 with Dennis Shoemaker’s number 64 Dura Lube car, he failed to qualify for two out of the first three races and they soon parted ways. Bobby then hooked up with Ray DeWitt whom you might remember from the Tim Fedewa entry, replacing Johnny Chapman in the 55 car for 15 events in ‘96 with a best finish coming in his first race with the team at Nashville where he placed 10th. Bobby also made a start at Hickory driving a 08 car he owned himself to a 13th place finish and made two starts for Cup legend Kenny Schrader with a best finish of 12th at Dover. 

The rest of the 90s were pretty lean for Bobby. Through 1999 he made just 3 Busch Series starts, all coming in an 08 car he owned himself with a best finish of 15th, one lap down, at Milwaukee in 1998. He made 9 Truck Series starts, 8 of which coming for Carl Wegner, with his best finish being a pair of 16ths. He also scored a couple of top 10 finishes in the ARCA series in 4 starts and ran a partial schedule in the NASCAR Winston West series in 1999 with 3 top 10s in 6 starts. Presumably it was this last stint that led to what would be the third stage of his career. 

In the 2000 season Bobby Dotter finally returned to full-time racing with a second car fielded by owner-driver Gene Christensen in the Winston West Series, sponsored by Christensen’s People Against Drugs organization. The combo proved potent, with Dotter winning four times: at the legendary Laguna Seca road course, twice at Irwindale and one at the Rocky Mountain Raceway in Utah. He also finished in the top 10 in 9 out of 12 events on the schedule, and finished runner up in points to the young off-road hotshot Brendan Gaughan. Dotter and Christensen also ran a couple of Truck series races together with a best finish of 17th at Bobby’s “home track” (Chicagoland Speedway and Chicago Motor Speedway weren’t built until the early 00s) of Milwaukee. 

This led to the entire organization moving into the Truck series full-time with Bobby’s iconic 08, once again primarily sponsored by People Against Drugs, in 2001. The team had a number of mechanical failures and just one top 10 finish, a 10th at IRP, but still likely exceeded expectations by proving a regular fixture within the top 20 and coming home 15th in points, with Bobby also scoring a 27th for Fred Bickford in his first Busch Series start in several years at Phoenix. In 2002, the team scored more consistent outside sponsorship and generally improved their pace in most areas, scoring Bobby and the team’s first top 5 finish at Martinsville and collecting 3 more top 10s en route to 14th place points finish and much higher average finish. 

In 2003, Bobby stepped back from full-time driving while in his early 40s to focus on his role as the General Manager of Christensen’s Green Light Racing. Between ‘03 and ‘04, he ran 13 races for the team, primarily when they lacked sponsorship on one of their two entries. In 2004 Bobby also made his final Busch Grand National start, coming home 26th, 6 laps down for Rick Ware at his beloved Milwaukee Mile. Bobby’s final Truck starts would primarily be field filler start-and-park entries for the team in ‘07-08. 

Sometime around the 2008 season, Gene Christensen sold his interest in Green Light Racing which had merged with SS Racing to Bobby Dotter, who dedicated himself full-time to being a truck and car owner. In 2014 the team moved into Xfinity series racing where they would later get their first win at any level in 2002 with Cole Custer driving for the team in a partnership with Stewart-Haas Racing, and having provided a home for many young and veteran drivers both in the midpack of the series for nearly a decade. 

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Tim Richmond

Timothy Lee Richmond (June 7, 1955 – August 13, 1989) was an American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio. He competed in IndyCar racing before transferring to NASCAR's Winston Cup Series. Richmond was one of the first drivers to change from open wheel racing to NASCAR stock cars full-time, which later became an industry trend. He won the 1980 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year award and had 13 victories during eight NASCAR seasons.

Richmond achieved his top NASCAR season in 1986 when he finished third in points. He won seven races that season, more than any other driver on the tour. When he missed the season-opening Daytona 500 in February 1987, media reported that he had pneumonia. The infection most likely resulted from his compromised immune system, which was weakened by AIDS. Despite the state of his health, Richmond competed in eight races in 1987, winning two events and one pole position before his final race in August of that year. He attempted a comeback in 1988 before NASCAR banned him for testing positive for excessive over-the-counter drugs, ibuprofen and pseudoephedrine; NASCAR later announced it gave Richmond a new test and tested negative. Richmond filed a lawsuit against NASCAR after the organization insisted it wanted access to his entire medical record before it would reinstate him. After losing the lawsuit, Richmond withdrew from racing. NASCAR later stated its original test was a "bad test."

Richmond grew up in a wealthy family and lived a freewheeling lifestyle, earning him the nickname "Hollywood". In describing Richmond's influence in racing, Charlotte Motor Speedway president Humpy Wheeler said, "We've never had a race driver like Tim in stock car racing. He was almost a James Dean-like character." When Richmond was cast for a bit part in the 1983 movie Stroker Ace,[6]"He fell right in with the group working on the film," said director Hal Needham. Cole Trickle, the main character in the movie Days of Thunder, played by Tom Cruise, was loosely based on Richmond and his interaction with Harry Hyde and Rick Hendrick.

[thundermotorsports]

Darrell Waltrip #88 racing at Music City 420. Winston Cup Series. Nashville Speedway, 1977. 📷 Brandon Steadman #nascarmonday #monday #thundermotorsports . . . DM for credits or support. Welcome! . . . #nascar #nascarracing #winstoncup #nashville #speedway #oval #racing #racingblog #racingcar #motorsport #motorsports #photooftheday #photo #daily #instagood #welcome #vintage #vintageracing #classiccars #classic #classicracing #motor #gearhead #petrolhead #motorhead #passion (em Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm7CSClJ-F7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[opsbritney]

BRITNEY SPEARS The Nascar Winston Cup Series Pepsi 400 in Daytona (2001)

[whichstoodonrockyshores]

Starting strong with a series of drawings about another one of my interests- A bit of art about a few of my favorite NASCAR Drivers.

We begin with the Polish Prince, Quintessential Owner-Driver, and 1992 Winston Cup Champion, Alan Kulwicki.

->Next Part (Davey Allison)

[missanissa71]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Vintage Dale Earnhardt Sr 3 Jeff Hamilton Jacket Mens XL Black Great Condition.