Top Ten Bristol Descriptions
1. …Spin drying marbles.
2. …Cleaning the kennel with a propeller.
3. …Waiting for kennel debris to happen.
4. …Counting BBs with mittens.
5. …Catching killer bees with tweezers.
6. …Making Darlington Stripes on both sides of the car.
7. …Racing drag bikes in a Velodrome.
8. …Keeping track of a bubble in a Jacuzzi.
9. …Inviting fans from two Super Bowls into one stadium.
10. The classic: “Racing jet airplanes in a gymnasium.” (Attributed to many but most often to Dick Trickle.)
Feel free to add your own descriptions. If you need some incentive read Tom Higgin’s piece on the 1971 Volunteer 500 at Bristol. Won by Chargin’ Charlie Glotzbach, with relief-driving help from Friday Hassler, it may be the most improbable Bristol race in the tracks long history.
Legendary Junior Johnson said of the event: ” “I consider what happened at Bristol that day nothing short of a miracle.” The race record of 101.074 mph for a 500 lap event still stands which should give you a clue as to what happened that afternoon.
If you’re expecting a repeat of that ‘71 event you’re off your nut! And with the Bristol race being held under the lights keep this in mind: “It’s basically the same, just darker.” - Alan Kulwicki, on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons.
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Christians & lions at the Roman Coliseum. Most times your a Christian, sometimes your a lion. Either way you come out bloody!
A typhoon in a 4 quart Tupperware!
Gunfight in a broom closet.
Kyle Petty doesn’t like the place. I heard him once say (on TV) that he’d like to buy the track, fill it with water, and stock it with fish. That way he could fish there, and not have to race there.
Right on Kyle. Let’s hope your a better fisherman than driver!