Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 78

TH Local Patrolman served reward for the people who The renovation program will take several years to complete Is IMS Entry If you look in your mirrorand see Tennessee Highway Patrol Ser geant Bill Hampton in pursuit try and outrun him af terall he is a professional race car driver Hampton of Johnson City Tenn is one of the entries in the Bristol 150 Budweiser Late Model Sportsman race at BIR tonight not true that I am having blue lights mounted on the roof of the race Hampton laughed general manager Larry Carrier has announced he will continue an improvement program at Bristol International Raceway which is in tended to make the facility more comfortable for the racing fans Carrier who was hired by Cali plained what we are ri cramped antiquated press box the ing lot long overdue building of a ultimately we will install lounge and the widening of the for aluminum seats with backs on the merly dangerous pit row of those improvements were very he ex SHAKEONIT Larry Carrier Left And Warner Hodgdon Team Up Page 6 (j) BRISTOL HERALD COURIER BRISTOL VIRGINIA TENNESSEAN riday August 26 1983 i ru SJ More Improvements) Planned or Raceway Bristol International Raceway which replaced the former venient to go to arid from the park win oe completed perore Satur Busch 500 plan on renovating many of the concrete seats that have weathered through the years and will make them more comfort said Carrier addition we are installing new lights in the in reference to a new press tower parking area to make it more con concrete he added will offer the fans a quality facility and we will do all of this without raising ticket prices one fornia business magnate Warner doing now is for the fans Without Hodgdon to direct operations at the them all of us the raceway staff Bristol racing plant has pledged to press and competitors have no initiate the plan without raising place to perform It is a very de ticket prices one cent Under the guidance of former have supported us all these years co owner Gary BaKer several pro jects at the 533 mile oval helped mnlrn ilia Ann rf fho CnflW places on the NASCAR Winston said but changes will ha nnmnlornn hafnro Satitr Cup circuit and Carrier and owner Warner Hodgdon intend to continue improvements at the track with the race fan in mind recent years the im provements made at the track have benefitted the press members and the Carrier said Hr MBBMB VgESE I 1' NV rcE jt iiwfr OngKMffMXMa 1 XLf flKli ah a Er fl Allison Has Score To Settle With Waltrip This Weekend Bobby Allison said he won The checkered flag was given to Dar rell Waltrip While Allison was making his point to the NASCAR officials Waltrip was celebrating in victory lane NASCAR decided in favor The point in question? Who ac tually won last Busch 500 at Bristol International Raceway Allison charged along with many fans and press members in attendance that Waltrip passed the pace car during a caution pe riod a flagrant violation which normally comes with a penalty NASCAR officials ruled that the bmmbmp sflaMBRi fniHitruv tion about it this And as if the situation between DiGard racing team and Pepsi Challenger team hot enough because of the tight Winston Cup points battle be tween the two Waltrip and car owner Junior Johnson charged ear lier this month that Allison blocked Waltrip in a battle with Dale Earn hardt for a win at the Talladega 500 not going to make any big deal between the situation Darrell and myself are Allison ex plained Allison one of the toughest vet pace car picked up the wrong car BOBBY ALLISON erans racin8 history is in quest as the leader and that Waltrip was wh win of his first national driving cham simply told to pass the pace car pionship Bristol one of fivji short and get in line where he should To tioned now just interested in tracks on the NASCAR Wifiston this day almost a yean later and forgetting about it and deciding Cup circuit is a key to winning the with the Busch 500 coming up Sat once an(j for ay unquestionably Winston Cup title Only once in the urday fee question is still a touchy who will win this Busch 500 last eight years has a driver not one I plan on running the very best I won at least one of the Bristol races I make any big deal can and winning the race in such en route to the title Allison is about it" Allison said when ques fashion that there can be no ques aware of that fact Budweiser Rocket Car On Display One of the machines at the Busch 500 at Bristol Raceway is ca pable of breaking the speed of sound No not Richard STP Pontiac or the Pepsi Chal lenger of Darrell Waltrip the Budweiser Rocket car the first manned vehicle to break the speed of sound on land The car was certi fied to be traveling at 739666 MPH by officials with the International Hot Rod Association and the United States Air orce The Budweiser Rocket car will be displayed at BIR It was piloted by Stan Barrett a former NASCAR racer and Hollywood stuntman and was owned by movie director Hal Needham Needham and actor Burt Reynolds co own the Skoal Bandit driven on the Winston Cup circuit by Harry Gant The car was clocked on the dry lake surface at Edwards Air orce Base in California on Dec 17 1979 IS GOING STRONG! 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