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Location: Charlottesville, VA
Quote/Motto: Turning on the people ... now that's a beautiful place to be, but if I spend my time turning on the people who's gonna turn on me?
Favorite Track:
Martinsville Speedway
Favorite Racing Moment:
Earnhardt winning Daytona.
How I discovered Rowdy, and why I Listen:
Oh I dunno.
My dream car:
A Hinckley Sou' Wester 70
Heroes:
Pop Pops, Arnold Palmer and The Duke
Gibbs Nationwide 20 Car = T-Rex?
Now I'm not pointing the finger here and I'm not saying that Smoke, Sliced Bread, Grand Slam and Shrub are not all top flight NASCAR drivers... but what I am saying is that it looks like by the looks of things that "THAT 20 CAR" is something special. Maybe we should call it The Raptor cause it reminds me of a T-Rex.
Don't remember T-Rex? Let David Newton of ESPN take you down victory lane. Ooops I'm mean memory lane. And, then tell me if you're not thinking what I'm thinking.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Ray Evernham still laughs when people claim the T-Rex Chevrolet that Jeff Gordon drove to victory in the 1997 Winston All-Star race was illegal.
Jeff Gordon and then-crew chief Ray Evernham made a heck of a team at Hendrick Motorsports in the mid-1990s.
"That car had no cheating on it," said Evernham, then Gordon's crew chief at Hendrick Motorsports. "That car was built by what the rules were, and it never became illegal until after The Winston when NASCAR wrote rules to make the car illegal."
The car in large part was the engineering marvel of Hendrick engineer Rex Stump, who at Evernham's request built a car that pushed the limit of every gray area in NASCAR's rulebook without crossing the line into cheating.
It single-handedly forced NASCAR to add several pages to its rulebook and sparked the engineering boom the sport enjoys today.
"Gary Nelson had seen the car as it was being built," Evernham said of the former director of NASCAR's premier series and initial developer of the Car of Tomorrow. "That car was perfectly legal until after The Winston, when other car owners complained and said they would have to build all new cars to keep up with that car.
I dunno... was the 20 car from last night the same exact chassis that won those other races? If it is, I am realy amazed at the versitility of that particular chassis.
Take a team like Gibbs, give them the top line HP of Toyota, put guys like Hamlin, Stewart, Kyle Busch and Lagano in it week to week against Nationwide competition and this is what you get.
And I GUARANTEE you that THAT 20 CAR is gone over more thoroughly than any other car in the Nationwide garage. If this kind of dominance were happening in Cup, THEN i'd be calling up the T-Rex references (as I'm sure other car owners would)....
But this is Nationwide. They're only beating like 6 or 8 cars that are in their class anyway...
X:)
- Racer X
- 10:48:07 07-05-2008
Jr was hinting on that after the race, that the shape was difference on the front fenders...hummmmm
- Don Runkle
- 10:50:34 07-05-2008
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