Did you know Dale Jr. was a smoker?
AJ Allmendinger and Brad Keselowski were too.
here's another Dale Sr. and Ralph Earnhardt only raced against each other once and that was at Metrolina.
Share your little known driver facts from whatever Motorsport you want.
Bearmtnmartin has never won a race. I know. It's astonishing.
Jerry was a race car driver. He drove so god damned fast. He never won any checkered flags, but he never did come in last...
Colin Braun's early home is close-ish to mine. After reading this old C/D article, I looked up his Home track. Sounds and looks pretty idyllic.
Randy Pobst is really nice and has raced at a number of lemons races.
Tony Stewart was offered a ride at Hendrick Motorsports early in his career (before he ran NASCAR full-time). He turned it down.
NASCAR Notebook: Tony Stewart turned down Hendrick Motorsports ride in 1996 - masslive.com
Spencer Pumpelly killed a guy.
Johnny O'Connell tried to murder Dario Franchitti in the paddock at a World Challenge race.
(those may not be facts, BTW)
bearmtnmartin (Forum Supporter) said:Bearmtnmartin has never won a race. I know. It's astonishing.
I've always wondered what the distribution of wins looks like among race car drivers. I suspect there are a few with a ton of wins (both single-event and championship) and a vast majority with none. I've only ever got a couple of single-event class wins, closest otherwise would be some championship 2nds. Most of the drivers I know who've won an event have won many other events and some championships.
Dick Trickle had a lighter installed in the cockpit.
^The monkey symbolizes the chaos
Enzo Ferrari figured he would be made a mechanic when they put him in the army.
He ended up shoeing mules instead.
Did you know that Dale Jr Dale Sr and Ralph Earnhardt all share the same first and last name? Ralph Lee Earnhardt Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Did you also know there's an abandoned oval in the UK and ChampCar (known now as Indycar) raced there
J.A. Ackley said:Tony Stewart was offered a ride at Hendrick Motorsports early in his career (before he ran NASCAR full-time). He turned it down.
NASCAR Notebook: Tony Stewart turned down Hendrick Motorsports ride in 1996 - masslive.com
Poor guy.. I wonder if he was ever able to make anything of his life after that mistake?
Did you know that Fangio was kidnaped for ransom in Cuba by Castro rebals in 1958?
Graham Hill didn't even learn to drive until he was 24.
John Surtees was a motorcycle champion before switch to four wheels. Damon Hill was also a bike racer first and didn't start racing cars until he was 23 when he switched to four wheels at his mothers request.
The Indy 500 was part of the F1 world championship from 50-58 (I think) so there are several F1 winners who only have a handful of F1 races, all of which were the Indy 500 even though most F1 teams didn't turn up and the cars were different.
A Lotus 7 has entered a Formula one race, I posted details here years ago. IT was a modified narrowed 7 raced in South Africa.
The Australian Repco 3.0L F1 engine used a stock Buick 215 (AKA Rover 3.5) block.
BMW DID NOT get old 100,000 mile plus M10 engine blocks out of the junk yard to build their 1,500 hp F1 hand grenades despite popular belief.
The Bugatti owners club founded and built the Prescott hillslimb course in England in the 1930's. Not sure if they still own it these days.
Chris Dyson once suffered a black eye post race at the hands of another driver at the Baltimore Grand Prix.
Did you know I used to bag Ernie Irvan's groceries? Harris Teeter, Morresville, NC 2001-2002ish.
I also watched from a distance when his house burned down.
He seemed like a nice guy from what interaction I had with him.
Did you know that Jackie Stewart nearly went to the Olympics for clay pigeon shooting.
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