This Week in Racing History (June 25-July 1)
This Week in Racing History June25 Clay Wood, of NASCAR's famous Wood Brothers, born (1923). Jimmy Florian wins the 100-lap feature race at Dayton Speedway to give Ford their first NASCAR Grand National (now Winston Cup) victory (1950). June ...
This Week in Racing History
June25
Clay Wood, of NASCAR's famous Wood Brothers,
born (1923).
Jimmy Florian wins the 100-lap feature race
at Dayton Speedway to give Ford their first
NASCAR Grand National (now Winston Cup)
victory (1950).
June 26
Bobby Rahal wins the Labatt's Manitoba
Challenge Formula Atlantic race (1986).
June 27
F1 racer Johnny Herbert born (1964).
June 28
Dragracer Tom McEwen nicknamed "The
Mongoose" after defeating Don "The Snake"
Prudhomme at Lions Dragstrip in California,
USA (1964).
June 29
Mongini and Zach cover 1037 miles driving
a Locomobile in winning the 24 hour race at
the Hamline Avenue race track in the "Twin
Cities" of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota,
USA (1907).
June 30
Alfredo "Dino" Ferrari, son of Enzo
Ferrari, dies at the age of 24 from
muscular dystrophy (1956).
July 1
Ayrton Senna enters and wins his first
go-kart race (1973).
Copyright 2000 Michael J. Stucker
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