NASCAR - CUP: Into The Hall – With Black-Eyed Peas
No, not the musical group. I seriously doubt that Cale Yarborough has any idea who they are. A good induction class but my ballot all three times has included a legacy racer who was among the first NASCAR legends. He is a man named Curtis Turner who came from the old bootlegger ranks and many still say was the best driver to ever run a top tier NASCAR race. In the late "60s he teamed up with Smokey Yunick to form a team that was awesome. He was a hard living man who got into a fight with Bill France Sr. over driver safety and an attempt to organize the drivers into a union. France had him blackballed during Turner's best years. Tales abound of Turner and his antics and I believe he should have been inducted at least by the time Junior Johnson was.
No comments:
Post a Comment