Brandon Reed
By Brandon Reed
Posted in Columns 11/19/10
Several years ago, my dear friend and mentor Rob Wainberg taught me a phrase in Yiddish that I have used many times since. It’s become one of my favorites, and it sums up some situations nicely.
The phrase, as best I can spell it in English, sounds like “Tokhis oyfin tish.”
Roughly translated, it means, “Put up or shut up.”
Brandon Reed
By Brandon Reed
Posted in Columns 10/22/10
If you haven’t had the opportunity to see the new documentary “Petty Blue”, you really should.
While if focuses mainly on Richard Petty, it tells the story of the Petty racing dynasty, good, bad and ugly.
One of the most heart rendering moments of the video is when they reach the story of Adam Petty, Kyle’s son, who was lost to us in a crash on May 12, 2000.
It was on that day that the sports world lost something special.
Brandon Reed
By Brandon Reed
Posted in Columns 10/8/10
One of the things that always amuses me about the latter half of the racing season is watching all the various pundits try to be the first to name who the Sprint Cup Championship will go to.
First they’ll point to somebody who carries momentum into the chase. Then they’ll jump on the bandwagon of the first winner, only to promptly claim that the second race winner was the one to watch all along.
Brandon Reed
By Brandon Reed
Posted in Columns 10/1/10
A couple of years ago, I was lucky enough to get to play chauffeur to a person I consider to be one of the all time great wheel men in NASCAR, Buddy Baker.
Buddy was kind enough to serve as the grand marshal at the Mountain Moonshine Festival, the annual gathering of race and old car enthusiasts centered around the square in downtown Dawsonville that particular year.
The event always brings out veteran racers, including David Pearson, Cotton Owens, Rex White and Junior Johnson.
Mike Bell
By Mike Bell
Posted in Columns 9/24/10
Jerry Wimbish died on June 22, 1998. Two days prior, he had been part of a team representing the Georgia Auto Racing Hall of Fame Association (GARHOFA) at the Alabama Auto Racing Pioneers Banquet in Talladega, Alabama.
Jerry was a true pioneer of the sport and no stranger to Atlanta’s racing addicts, especially those who frequented the Peach Bowl in Atlanta and at Lakewood shortly after World War II.
During the war, he flew several dozen missions as a bombardier over Germany. I once asked him why he had a slight limp.
Ken Stanford
By Ken Stanford-Guest Columnist
Posted in Columns 9/10/10
My first NASCAR race really wasn’t my first one.
That’s because rain postponed it. It was to have been the Atlanta 500, sometime in the early 1960s but rain got in the way.
I’m not sure of the year but I know it was the Spring race… then known as the Atlanta 500, the one that has just been pulled from NASCAR’s schedule.
Brandon Reed
By Brandon Reed
Posted in Columns 9/3/10
When the NASCAR Sprint Cup tour rolls into Atlanta this weekend, it will be mark the last time the tour will visit the 50 year old facility twice in one season for the foreseeable future.
It’s an odd situation to see Atlanta lose its spring race date. Since it’s first event in 1960, the speedway has hosted to Cup events yearly.
But the spring race has always been a tough sell. And, with the opportunity to go to new venues, the decision was made to limit AMS to only one event, the successful Labor Day race, for 2011.
Brandon Reed
By Brandon Reed
Posted in Columns 8/6/10
For some reason in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a slew of stock car racing movies filmed in the south.
Some were okay, some were terrible, but many of them had one thing in common – they were made by people who really didn’t know what stock car racing was all about.
The film “White Lightning Road” is just such a film. It was made in 1965, written, directed and produced by Ron Ormond, a low-budget filmmaker from Nashville.
Brandon Reed
By Brandon Reed
Posted in Columns 7/30/10
Reports from the Associated Press this week said that two of NASCAR’s top tier drivers were handed down stiff financial penalties recently for making critical comments publicly about the racing series.
In other words, after telling them “boys, have at it” in the off season, it was followed by “boys, keep your traps shut.”
This move has been justified by some since other big league sports have taken the same path over the years.
Brandon Reed
By Brandon Reed
Posted in Columns 7/2/10
First off, let me start this column by saying a big thank you to all our readers!
Georgia Racing History.com turned one year old on June 26. So far, the response has been phenomenal, and we can’t say thank you enough!
The birth of this website actually started more than a year prior to the website being officially launched. It began as a conversation between myself and Mike Bell, the historian and CEO of the Georgia Auto Racing Hall of Fame Association.
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