Congratulations to ROBIN McCALL! She did something i havent seen a female competitor do in any series except for Go Daddy at Daytona……she passed a fellow competitor under green flag racing conditions. Something that Janet Guthrie never…EVER did. And we saw it live as it happened
POINT STANDINGS and WINS before the 1982 MOTOR STATE 400 (15 of 30): #44 Terry Labonte (2146 points, GM)
#88 Bobby Allison (-144 with 3 wins, GM)
#11 Darrell Waltrip (-210 with 5 wins, GM)
#28 Benny Parsons (-327, GM)
#15 Dale Earnhardt (-345 with 1 win, Ford)
#67 Buddy Arrington (-365, Dodge)
#33 Harry Gant (-397 with 1 win, GM)
#71 Dave Marcis (-461 with 1 win, GM)
#43 Richard Petty (-463, GM)
Jody Ridley (Ford #90 in 12th) has been improving over the months. Ricky Rudd (GM #3 in 17th) has had a combination of performance and mechanical DNFs. Cale Yarborough (GM #27) won the Carolina 500 and Neil Bonnet (Ford #21) won the World 600 despite both aiming to only race around half of the season. Tim Richmond (GM #2) got his maiden win in the Riverside 400km.
Drivers listed are the season's current top8, last season's top8 plus whatever race winner that doesn't fit any of those 2 descriptions. Yes, I’m using the unsponsored names of the races. In Michigan’s case, the early race is the Motor State 400 while the later one is the Yankee 400.
It's too bad this wasn't a ESPN race because we would have seen a good quality finish and victory lane interviews tape delayed and edited for time of course.
21:14 JD McDuffie blows an engine. Me and my late old man was watching when he lost his life. Youll never see racers like JD anymore, unfortunately. The back marker,seat of the pants teams are long gone. Its what made Nascar and Indy car interesting to me. You always saw the same guys out there doing their best with old, out of date engines and cars and underfunded teams of usually consisting of themselves, wives, family and friends. Its all corporate Neuteredcar now..🙄
ol d.w. really pissed off at cale blame nascar for not running the final moments of the michigan 400 on monday boy poor larry nuber messed with the wrong jaws no problem