How Smokey Yunick (Almost) Beat ‘Em All At Talladega With This Boss 302.

"During qualifying Blackburn scorched the course with a lap of 177-mph (285 km/h) to take the pole. The next closest qualifier was Jim Paschal in an AMC Javelin at a hair over 172-mph (277km/h). You don’t need to know much about anything to understand that a 5-mph (8 km/h) qualifying difference is titanic in a stock car race." 😎

"Blackburn had at least lapped the field once and perhaps twice before a rocker arm,,,,,,,,," 😢

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