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11 Feb 2002, 23:15 (Ref:214307)
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Mystery stock-car crash needs identification
Can you identify this crash?
 As you can see it's really hard to make out a lot of details, but that #83 car should be a pretty helpful hint. Speculations are always welcome, but hard facts would obviously be preferred. |
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12 Feb 2002, 02:33 (Ref:214364)
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I bet it is dick skinner,i meen mike skinner,and wallass.
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12 Feb 2002, 04:05 (Ref:214376)
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Can't be sure yet until I look at my tape, but I think it's the race from Talladega from 1987 when Bobby Allison ripped out all the fencing. This race was the reason they went to the restrictor plates...even though it wasn't the next season that they put the plates back on the cars. The season after that crash they tried smaller carburetors.
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12 Feb 2002, 05:30 (Ref:214399)
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12 Feb 2002, 08:24 (Ref:214413)
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I doubt it is Allison's crash, mainly for two reasons:
1. Allison's car never got that much airtime - it simply rises up, goes backwards into the fence and then bounces back down onto the track pretty much directly after the crash. 2. There is no other cars involved in Allison's crash, which contradicts that spinning car in the pic. I was thinking it might be Lake Speed's flip in the 1989 Pepsi 400 at Daytona (since I haven't seen that crash - only read about it), but I haven't gotten any closer to identifying it as of yet. |
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12 Feb 2002, 08:32 (Ref:214414)
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Nevermind - I just had it identified. At least I got one of the drivers right, as well as the year.
It's Greg Sacks that flips, in the Dinner Bell #48, while Lake Speed is the driver of the #83 Bullseye car. Happened at Pocono in '89. Speed broke his collarbone in the wreck, Sacks was uninjured. Figures. Hmm, come to think of it, I might have a vid of this crash, but I never knew what it was. I'll have to check once I get home. |
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12 Feb 2002, 19:01 (Ref:214766)
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Glad you got the pic identified.
But, I think there was a few cars involved in Bobby's crash? I thought I remember Phil Parsons with a lot of damage and Darrell Waltrip replacing his windsheild during the red flag? Nascar gave him the ok for safety reasons. I could be wrong though, it's been a few years since I watched that tape. |
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12 Feb 2002, 22:40 (Ref:214993)
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There was only Allison directly involved in the crash, but I think several cars crashed in avoidance of Allison's stationary car, going through the debris that had been scattered about.
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12 Feb 2002, 22:48 (Ref:215002)
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In regards to the Sacks/Speed crash - I do think I have that one in MPEG, dumped some time ago; at least there's a yellow car doing a wild flip, at Pocono, with a red/white car nearby. It's captured from some distance, so it's pretty hard to make out any details on the cars.
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