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Don't ya know there's a curse on Talladega! This weekend will bring some changes in the standings, or perhaps they will all wreck out and it will be a stand still. Just look at the April race with Edwards take off...
And it's Halloween this weekend
Pray for everyone's safety, they have been getting crazy restrictor plate racing this year. Apparently driver hear voices, see things, and other strange things, read the article, it lists some crazy and tragic happenings.
here is an article 'bout it.
The Talladega......Curse?
WKYT Blog Listing
Topic Author: Crystal "Micki" Lewis
Posted: 2:40 PM Apr 22, 2009
...And the last thing he did before his people left the valley, was to look out over the land and speak a curse on it and all that might come to gather there....
...Or so the last part of the legend goes anyway. Did you know that Talladega Superspeedway supposedly has a curse on it? If not, before we head off to Alabama this weekend for the Aaron's 499, let me enlighten you to this macabre tale of a Native American curse on Nascar's longest track. I found this interesting story told on a few old articles floating around the internet void. Residents of the area near and around Talladega Superspeedway say the track is built on the same ground once occupied by an Indian tribe. So, today, the view from turn two is obscured by a wormhole in time and space, leading to history and legend.....
The time is the early 19th century. The Abihka Tribe of the Creek Indian Confederacy are living in the valley where Talladega Superspeedway will be built. But early American settlers have moved into Alabama. Now, the indians and the settlers are involved in numerous disputes. And these disagreements have led President Andrew Jackson to order the Abihka Tribe to relocate. But these lands are sacred to the Indians. They used to hold horse races here and in one of those races, a great chief was thrown from his mount and killed. Now they're being forced to move. So, as they are leaving, the tribe's medicine man looks back on the valley one more time, and bestows a curse upon it.
That's one version of the legend I found. Another version just says the track is built on an old Indian burial ground. And yet another version I read says that the Indian tribe sent their medicine man to ask Bill France NOT to build the speedway there and when he went ahead and did, the medicine man then put his curse on it. Whatever version you want to go with doesn't matter I guess. They all end up with an apparent curse on Talladega Superspeedway. And if you look back at some of the events that have taken place at the speedway over the years, it might make you question,.....is it true?
Anyone that follows Nascar knows that Talladega is notorious for having "the big one", the one crash that ends up taking out a whole mess of racecars. But I'm not going to focus on all the huge collection of crashes that have occurred over the years. I'm going to mention a couple of course, but Talladega has alot of tragedy and just plain strange happenings associated with it. Here are just a few of the ones I found in no particular order:
1974 - Quite a few of the competitor's cars were apparently sabotaged the night before the race, with cut brake lines, sugar in gas tanks. And the last I read, the culprit has never been found.
1986 - An enthusiastic fan decides to "borrow" the pace car and take a few laps around the track before the race. The start was actually delayed as police chased down the pace car bandit. I wonder if this guy a couple decades later developed a fondness for duct tape.....Do the math I guess.....
I couldn't find a year for this next one or even find out if it indeed true, but either way I found it interesting. One article I read stated that an ARCA car had a close call outrunning a tornado that had decided to touch down on Talladega's backstretch during qualifying. I find that hard to believe, but, it does make an entertaining tale. Okay, back to facts.....
1973 - 60 cars started the race. By lap 11, only 39 were left as a huge wreck took care of 21 cars, including Wendell Scott, one of the first African American Nascar drivers, whose career pretty much ended that day due to the numerous serious injuries he sustained.
Also in 1973 - Bobby Isaac reports that during the race, he heard a voice tell him to get out of the car. He parked it, got out, and apparently never raced again in the Cup series.
At the 2nd race in 1973 - Rookie Larry Brooks was killed in a crash that reportedly didn't appear to be that bad.
1975 - Richard Petty's brother-in-law was killed on pit road when a pressurized water tank exploded.
Fall 1975 - Tiny Lund was killed on a lap 6 crash.
1987 - Bill Elliott sets the fastest qualifying lap ever at just a little over 212 mph. Then in the race, Bobby Allison's car goes airborne from a blown tire and flies into the catchfence in front of a packed grandstand. One part of the car made it through the fence and injured some fans. Because of that wreck, Nascar put on the restrictor plates to slow the cars down.
1993 - Nascar loses Davey Allison as a result of a helicopter crash in the infield.
2009 - Carl Edwards car takes off into the catch fence injuring 9 fans. (My addition to article)
So there you are. Just a few of the tragedies and happenings at Talladega in the last few decades. Sounds more like a Halloween story. Are all these events the result of an age-old curse? I'm not going to give you my opinion on it. I'll just finish it with a quote from a TV show from a few years ago, "the truth...is out there"......I'll just leave it to your imagination. Let us just hope that this Sunday's race is free from any mishap. I don't like to see any driver get hurt, even if I don't like them. I have seen a caution-free Talladega race so it is possible. I think I even have it still on tape somewhere in the dark recesses of my closet.
And it's Halloween this weekend
Pray for everyone's safety, they have been getting crazy restrictor plate racing this year. Apparently driver hear voices, see things, and other strange things, read the article, it lists some crazy and tragic happenings.here is an article 'bout it.
The Talladega......Curse?
WKYT Blog Listing
Topic Author: Crystal "Micki" Lewis
Posted: 2:40 PM Apr 22, 2009
...And the last thing he did before his people left the valley, was to look out over the land and speak a curse on it and all that might come to gather there....
...Or so the last part of the legend goes anyway. Did you know that Talladega Superspeedway supposedly has a curse on it? If not, before we head off to Alabama this weekend for the Aaron's 499, let me enlighten you to this macabre tale of a Native American curse on Nascar's longest track. I found this interesting story told on a few old articles floating around the internet void. Residents of the area near and around Talladega Superspeedway say the track is built on the same ground once occupied by an Indian tribe. So, today, the view from turn two is obscured by a wormhole in time and space, leading to history and legend.....
The time is the early 19th century. The Abihka Tribe of the Creek Indian Confederacy are living in the valley where Talladega Superspeedway will be built. But early American settlers have moved into Alabama. Now, the indians and the settlers are involved in numerous disputes. And these disagreements have led President Andrew Jackson to order the Abihka Tribe to relocate. But these lands are sacred to the Indians. They used to hold horse races here and in one of those races, a great chief was thrown from his mount and killed. Now they're being forced to move. So, as they are leaving, the tribe's medicine man looks back on the valley one more time, and bestows a curse upon it.
That's one version of the legend I found. Another version just says the track is built on an old Indian burial ground. And yet another version I read says that the Indian tribe sent their medicine man to ask Bill France NOT to build the speedway there and when he went ahead and did, the medicine man then put his curse on it. Whatever version you want to go with doesn't matter I guess. They all end up with an apparent curse on Talladega Superspeedway. And if you look back at some of the events that have taken place at the speedway over the years, it might make you question,.....is it true?
Anyone that follows Nascar knows that Talladega is notorious for having "the big one", the one crash that ends up taking out a whole mess of racecars. But I'm not going to focus on all the huge collection of crashes that have occurred over the years. I'm going to mention a couple of course, but Talladega has alot of tragedy and just plain strange happenings associated with it. Here are just a few of the ones I found in no particular order:
1974 - Quite a few of the competitor's cars were apparently sabotaged the night before the race, with cut brake lines, sugar in gas tanks. And the last I read, the culprit has never been found.
1986 - An enthusiastic fan decides to "borrow" the pace car and take a few laps around the track before the race. The start was actually delayed as police chased down the pace car bandit. I wonder if this guy a couple decades later developed a fondness for duct tape.....Do the math I guess.....
I couldn't find a year for this next one or even find out if it indeed true, but either way I found it interesting. One article I read stated that an ARCA car had a close call outrunning a tornado that had decided to touch down on Talladega's backstretch during qualifying. I find that hard to believe, but, it does make an entertaining tale. Okay, back to facts.....
1973 - 60 cars started the race. By lap 11, only 39 were left as a huge wreck took care of 21 cars, including Wendell Scott, one of the first African American Nascar drivers, whose career pretty much ended that day due to the numerous serious injuries he sustained.
Also in 1973 - Bobby Isaac reports that during the race, he heard a voice tell him to get out of the car. He parked it, got out, and apparently never raced again in the Cup series.
At the 2nd race in 1973 - Rookie Larry Brooks was killed in a crash that reportedly didn't appear to be that bad.
1975 - Richard Petty's brother-in-law was killed on pit road when a pressurized water tank exploded.
Fall 1975 - Tiny Lund was killed on a lap 6 crash.
1987 - Bill Elliott sets the fastest qualifying lap ever at just a little over 212 mph. Then in the race, Bobby Allison's car goes airborne from a blown tire and flies into the catchfence in front of a packed grandstand. One part of the car made it through the fence and injured some fans. Because of that wreck, Nascar put on the restrictor plates to slow the cars down.
1993 - Nascar loses Davey Allison as a result of a helicopter crash in the infield.
2009 - Carl Edwards car takes off into the catch fence injuring 9 fans. (My addition to article)
So there you are. Just a few of the tragedies and happenings at Talladega in the last few decades. Sounds more like a Halloween story. Are all these events the result of an age-old curse? I'm not going to give you my opinion on it. I'll just finish it with a quote from a TV show from a few years ago, "the truth...is out there"......I'll just leave it to your imagination. Let us just hope that this Sunday's race is free from any mishap. I don't like to see any driver get hurt, even if I don't like them. I have seen a caution-free Talladega race so it is possible. I think I even have it still on tape somewhere in the dark recesses of my closet.
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, with likely less carnage than tomorrow. Anyone but KB anyone but KB anyone but KB.
