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23rd September 2010, 04:36 #1
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1978 FIA Cup Championship
In 1978, Cale followed up with yet another DOMINATING performance enroute to his then record third straight Winston Cup, by 474 points over Bobby Allison. He had a series best 10 victories (DW was second with 6), and scored 23 top 5's and 24 top 10's. He also led a Shrub-like 3587 laps that year. If memory serves (Lee Roy, please help me with this) I believe Tim Brewer was his crew chief (yep, the same Tim Brewer that we see on DSPN every week in the Tech Center.
Let's check to see how bad the tail whippin was in the FIA points standings:
Code:001 Cale Yarborough........444 002 Darrell Waltrip........358 003 Bobby Allison..........315 004 Benny Parsons..........290 005 Dave Marcis............231 006 David Pearson..........208 007 Lennie Pond............201 008 Richard Petty..........195 009 Dick Brooks............105 010 Neil Bonnett...........104 ____________________________ 011 Donnie Allison.........100 012 Buddy Baker............079 013 Richard Childress......052 014 JD McDuffie............031 015 Buddy Arrington........025
Cale averaged "only"14.8 ppr this year, and the avg ppr for the group 6.6, down slightly from 1977. The group averaged starting 27.7 out of the 30 races, the best to that date. Their avg starting spot was 10.0, and avg finish was 13.5. Reliability continues its upward trend, with the avg RAF being 19.9, (or 71.63 %) and the avg DNF for the group was again 7.9. Avg Lead lap finishes dropped to 4.9 of 30 or 17.79% the last time it would be below 20%. Again the group scored all 30 of the race wins, with 29 of those in the top 10 drivers (Donnie Allison scored the win in the fall race at Atlanta). The p15 driver, Buddy Arrington scored a record low for that position with 25 points.
The Bud Pole award goes to Cale Yarborough with 8 poles.
Congrats to Cale Yarborough, the 1978 Winston Cup and FIA Cup Champion!#4 2014 Sprint Cup Champion, 2007 Daytona 500,2003 Brickyard 400,2x Coke 600,2014 Southern 500 Champ: 962 starts,90 wins, 345 T5s, 544 T10s, 44 poles, 2x NNS champ
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1st October 2010, 17:14 #2
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For NASCARRR NOW...III'M Tim Brewer! Yep, he was the CC thru the 1981 season on the 11 car, then 1982 was a transition year where Jeff Hammond shared the duties with 2 others, then it was all Hollywood's from '83 on.
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