The Official Brown Cafe Racing Thread

[wkmac]

Going to the GatorNats Friday/Sunday..Kurt Busch is running in P/S this year

And we're still waiting for a written report to the rest of the class on "What I Did At the Gators!"

 

[Turbo-J]

. Reminds me when Super Stock and Drag Illustrated called it a day but then the internet brought us it's near online version in Competition Plus. Maybe NSSN can re-emerge is some similar form.

Thanks for everything Chris!

fyi...Drag Illustrated is still around, or its a new version of the drag illust. from before...its one of the best pro street/pro mod/ outlaw 10.5/doorcars mags around....$99 for liftetime subscription..u can also view issues online

 

[wkmac]

fyi...Drag Illustrated is still around, or its a new version of the drag illust. from before...its one of the best pro street/pro mod/ outlaw 10.5/doorcars mags around....$99 for liftetime subscription..u can also view issues online

Tx!

 

[tarbar66]

Did everyone see that David Ragan won the pole for tonights race in Texas.

 

[moreluck]

 

[rod]

All packed and ready to leave for 10 straight nights if sprintcar racing in Knoxville, Iowa. I kind of hope it cools off a little while I'm down there.

 

[cachsux]

Report: UPS cutting NASCAR sponsorship

 

[wkmac]

End of an era!

Remember well in 78' when Kenny returned to Funny Car racing with the Chelsea Street Pub car and the late Leroy Goldstein wrenching the car. Ah the 70's, the glory days of Funny Car.

 

[moreluck]

Guy Fieri picked to drive Indy 500 pace car | Fox News

 

[wkmac]

Racing has lost a great one.

Chris Economaki

 

[rod]

End of an era!

Remember well in 78' when Kenny returned to Funny Car racing with the Chelsea Street Pub car and the late Leroy Goldstein wrenching the car. Ah the 70's, the glory days of Funny Car.

I still have an old tee-shirt from 1992 that has a speed limit sign on it and says "Speed Limit 301.70" from when he was the first to break the 300 mph barrier.

 

[texan]

I still have an old tee-shirt from 1992 that has a speed limit sign on it and says "Speed Limit 301.70" from when he was the first to break the 300 mph barrier.

War story and I guess necro post for all of us. I was there when the first Jet Powered cars ran at Atco N.J
many many years ago.

They lit up hit the afterburner and blew out the glass from the tower.

They (the owners and officials) had no idea that would happen.

 

[Hank13]

That did not work

 

[cachsux]

If you grew up a racing fan in the Midwest then this guy was THE man. RIP Dick Trickle.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

If you grew up a racing fan in the Midwest then this guy was THE man. RIP Dick Trickle.

Stupid question---was Tom Cruise's characters name in "Days of Thunder"---Cole Trickle---a tribute to this man?

 

[tourists24]

Stupid question---was Tom Cruise's characters name in "Days of Thunder"---Cole Trickle---a tribute to this man?

The name was sort of a tip of the hat to Dick, but Dick was not as accomplished as a sprint car driver. He was nontheless a legend. The role of Cole was rumored to have been patterned after Tim Richmond who was much more flamboyant....

 

[ajblakejr]

Kyle Busch will honor Dick Trickle this weekend.

 

[cachsux]

As will many. Carl Edwards, sharing the same number as Trickle is famous for, qualified on the pole for Saturdays cup race with his name replaced over the door by Trickle's.

I've lived my entire life in the Midwest and probably 90% of my trips into the state of Wisconsin was to see this man race. Despite the darkness of his passing he will be remembered as a good man from humble beginnings who loved and was loved by his fans.

 

[wkmac]

Stupid question---was Tom Cruise's characters name in "Days of Thunder"---Cole Trickle---a tribute to this man?

The character Cole Trickle was loosely based on the late Tim Richmond and Robert Duval's character on the legendary crew chief, Harry Hyde.


RIP #LEFturn!