The Atlanta Journal from Atlanta, Georgia • 130

Staff Billy Downs 5 IffW! yyg 1 1M3 tfyt sa Hl liRk 1 '411 Uok ife fc I I MHiWWIRtf wm I WHKK 1 ufllOflBKflMflKflHHIIlst flBflHBHflflRb AIK PUBLICIST DON CHECKS MODEL SCOREBOARD New Electronic Deuce Will Keep ans Posted of All leaders in Race TO Humor Tears Sweat I Part of AIR Story 4 By AL THOMY Tlie mile Atlanta International Raceway qualifies as scene of the unorthodox and the zany mechanical and human Name it it's happened ireball Roberts once won a race over the te plush layout driving a car as slowly a he ever LEu9 does at snail's pace That particular race was finished under a caution flag Last year Bob Burdick down to his last dime borrowed a bunch of parts and equipment from other drivers threw a half dozen used tires into his pit and won the race! Not only that In his pit crew he had a con glomeration of attendants none of whom had er worked there before His buddies from Omaha a used car salesman a dentist a mechanic and an unemployed used car sales man kept his car on the frack and brought him home first: Most dejected of all at success sponsor who had withdrawn his support Just prior to the race because of economic reasons Young Bob won over $15000 Last year jn the Dixie 400 Roberts got the white flag and drove into tire pits at the same time out of gas His crew get his car started BUNKIE BLACKBURN driving for Junior Johnson took the lead but he too gave out of gas coming into the home stretch and David Pearson streaked to the checkered flag with Blackburn in the pits getting the flag too late Il a bit funny but starter Ernie Moore was a casualty in an earlier race when a bit of debris from a bouncing car struck him in the head and sent him to Hie hospital just when the afternoon was getting away Moore built a wire protector to avoid such accidents in the futiu He is one of the few starters who around for the finish A humorous touch was added last year when a hulking tow truck attempting to right a car on the fourth bank overturnedand needed help from the human muscles in the area The truck driver was the only casualty of the day Tim lock was prevented from starting one race when a mechanical operator or someone left a towel in his oil pan A TELETYPE!) message was once dispatched to the press box reading are wanted in the western section of the infield A man is beating his No one stopped to think that it might be the time for her regular whipping Oh well Track superintendent Alf Knight recalls the hectic moments before the first race when workmen painted over one rest room door and over the other both leading to the same destination A hasty trip to tire rest room and Alf arrived in time to hear a woman scream Morris grabbed a paint brush while I headed for parts unknown in a he wincingly recalls A husky of teen agers working on the track in 1960 were nicknamed the could be that they moved like a football says Knight more likely because everytime the men dropped a piece of scrap material it disappeared Atlanta International Raceway home of the unexpected and Hie undoubtedly tr if kwd fl Al Ibmitr as his former Peach Bowl Plans Slate Many of top drivers learned their racing at Peach Bowl a quarter mile oval Among those who graduated from this track are Jack Smith Roscoe Thompson Wilbur Rake straw and of course a flock of former drivers 'Die Peach Bowl continues un der the directorship of Roy Shoe maker He plans weekly racing pro grams throughout the spring and summer Tentative plans call for programs to start Sunday nights at 8:30 or 9 SOMETHING NEW ADDED OR ANS Racing fans attending the third annual Atlanta 500 will be kept fully informed of tire progress of the various drivers by means of the most modem elec tronic motor sports scoreboard The layout of tire board was a combined effort by the Atlanta International Raceway and the General Indicator Corp of New York This huge board 74 feet long by 29 feet high is being erected high on the hill alongside the backstretch where it will be risible to all race fans Huge three foot numerals will tell the fans the car numbers for the first five positions the num ber of laps completed by the lead er and how many laps behind the leader are each of the other four cars The average speed of the race will be shown in six figures down to the decimal thousandths of a mile per hour Traffic lights indicating whether green yellow or red is being displayed on the track will shine from the lower right portion of the board A COMPLETE new approach in auto racing scoreboards will be indicators which will flash the red Jetetrs whenever one of the five leaders makes a pit stop remaining lighted as long as that car is being sen iced The figures on the board will be kept right up to the second the lights flashing as the position changes occur The board was engineered and constructed by the General Indi cator Corp in its plant at Par deeville Wis and shipped to Atlanta in sections This firm has constructed the boards in most of the major league baseball parks and is rated as one of the best in the nation A maze of cables wires re lays switches and 644 bulbs are harnessed to tell the customers on at all times The operator will be seated at a console panel dotted with dial indicators push buttons and switches and he will be in con stant communication with the press box which is tied into one of the best speedway communi cation systems in operation communications nene cen ter in the press box is in constant touch with every nook and cran ny of the Raceway through a web of five separate private line tele phone circuits and the 28 station telephone switchboard I SUNDAY MARCH 18 1962 Clje Atlanta journal and CONSTITUTION Jp Here's Why Cars on Race Track Go aster and still conform to flock car spec wonder the matter? 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