As a hint, he made his debut in the 1950 Southern 500.
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As a hint, he made his debut in the 1950 Southern 500.
Quality hint, I know the answer now! But I'll let some other stabs go thru prior to chiming back in.
I was just remembering that he attempted the 2007 Daytona 500 in a car provided to him by Richard Childress-he finished near the back of his Duel race and wasn't fast enough in qually to get in on time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexamateo
dj do you want to go on and answer this?
Yeah he needs too. I too know the answer, but I cheated and looked it up after my last post.... :beer:
West coast racer Herschel McGriff?
That's who I believe it is, from looking it up.....but we will let Alex decide....Quote:
Originally Posted by djarumdudley
Hershel McGriff is it. He debuted at the 1950 Southern 500, actually came east and ran much of the 1954 Schedule winning 4 races including North Wilkesboro before returning to Oregon to work in the family business. He started running Winston West again back in the 1970's winning the Championship for them once and finishing runner-up 3 times. He always made the West Coast Cup series starts up until Sonoma in 1993, his final start 47 years after his debut. He tried to qualify for the inaugural Brickyard 400 in 1994, but was a DNQ.
Hi still makes the occasional start in the K&N west series making one start last year at age 85 in Sonoma. He "won" a race at the old Texas World Speedway in 1993 at age 65, but that was a class win. He was 4th overall behind winner Darrell Waltrip in the ARCA co-sanctioned race. He last won a race outright at Mesa Marin in 1989 at age 61.
After leaving the Wood Brothers following the 1984 season Buddy Baker started his own race team.
Who was the first driver to replace Baker as driver in the teams car?
Bobby Rahal