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...spectators sit on concrete ledges. Yet Concord is a shrine. Junior Johnson, Tiny Lund and the illustrious Petty clan (Richard Petty, king of the stockers, won $378,865 last year) began their racing careers here. Spectators expect the local boy they applaud to become tomorrow's NASCAR hero. Says Cabarrus County Sheriffs Deputy Stowe Cobb: "We're all participants because those boys out there are our own people...
...Americans, accustomed to the stock cars of Darlington and Daytona, might expect. While Medenica's Lola T-340 will never turn world champion Niki Lauda green with envy, it is still a far cry from the souped-up stock cars made famous by the "good ol' boys" of the NASCAR speedway circuit...
...then in small print right below the winners of the NASCAR 400 or some such event there was the box score for the Boston Minutemen, the Hub's pro soccer franchise in the North American Soccer League (not to be confused with the American Soccer League, but don't ask me why it shouldn't be confused...
...Traveco Mobile home, driven by NASCAR stock car pilot Joe Frasson and other members of the Bolus and Snopes (named after the Faulknerian family--auto racing is a crass sport and Snopes symbolizes pretty well a lot of what most auto racing is like) Racing Team, managed to finish with a flourish in 44 hours. According the B & S co-driver, a racing photographer, the mobile home hired a police escort from the county line to the finish for the standard rate of $75 thus missing all the red lights and other foulups that might beset other less well-planned...
...Unser put on the pole this year. He is a fairly wealthy man now, and he races only when and where he wants to. Jones is still probably one of the ten fastest drivers in the world, despite his partial retirement. The only driving he still does is the NASCAR road race at Riverside in January, and the Trans Am series for Bud Moore's Ford Mustang team. He is very fast in the school bus yellow racer, and has won the first two Trans Am races this year. Not that Jones won without opposition. Donohue ran on his tail...