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[59] [10] Following the event, John introduced Jeff to Lee Osborne, a former driver who operated a business in Jamestown, Indiana building sprint cars. [59] [63] [10] John was interested in buying a used motor and a sprint car chassis for Jeff. [63] [10] Osborne assumed John was in the market for himself, not Gordon.
This is a list of inductees in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. 1990 ... Lee Osborne; Cavino Petillo; Roger Rager; Fred Rahmer; ... Jeff Swindell; 2022. Bob Frey;
Through the meetings about building the track the idea was conceived to create a touring sprint car series in the area. The idea of the All Star Circuit of Champions was then born in 1970 and began operating that year. The series would cease operations after just 3 years in 1973, when the 1973 oil crisis triggered fuel price increases and ...
The Sprint Showdown and Sprint All-Star Race XXIV were run on Saturday, May 17, 2008, at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, a suburb outside of Charlotte.The events were telecast live at 7 pm US EDT on Speed Channel with radio broadcast on MRN Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio beginning at 6:15 pm US EDT.
After retiring from driving, Osborne became one of the top Sprint car builders. In the 1990s, Donna Hoag lost her husband to cancer, reunited with Osborne, and married him. [3] Geoff Bodine's first taste of Modified driving came in Dutch Hoag's car at Shangri-La Speedway, when Hoag let him try it in a practice session. Bodine worked on Dutch ...
World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series, originally known as the World of Outlaws (often abbreviated WoO) is an American national touring dirt track racing series. It is owned and operated by World Racing Group, and was rebranded when the World of Outlaws Late Model Series was introduced. [1]
The race logo for the 2008 UAW-Dodge 400. The UAW-Dodge 400 was the third out of 36 scheduled stock car races of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. [2] It ran for a total of 267 laps over a distance of 400 mi (640 km), [5] and was held on March 2, 2008, in Las Vegas, Nevada, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, [2] an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. [6]
In 1986, Gordon began racing sprint cars, winning three races. The next year, Gordon was awarded a USAC license at age 16, the youngest driver to do so. [15] During the 1980s, [15] Gordon and his family had to overcome an insurance hurdle. The minimum age for driving the sprint cars was 16, and his persistence paid off with an all Florida speed ...