Curtis Turner was a pivotal figure in NASCAR racing from the beginning, winning races and gaining acclaim. He earned a series of unique firsts
By Dustin Long The Virginian-Pilot STUART, Va. He watched Curtis Turner broadslide through the corners at dirt tracks, laughed when Joe Weatherly tossed rubber snakes at unsuspecting people and relished
He watched Curtis Turner slide through the corners at dirt tracks, laughed when Joe Weatherly tossed rubber snakes at unsuspecting people and relished
STUART, Va. - He watched Curtis Turner broadslide through the corners at dirt tracks, laughed when Joe Weatherly tossed rubber snakes at unsuspecting people and relished
errors than usual as we run this extra hundred miles deep into the night. And this race is 600 miles because when Curtis Turner start drive for a lot of movement. And for Smith his general. Manager the racetrack they do to get any attention
per hour. Last year Kasey Kahne in 20117. New track record. And a 181. Miles an hour on mile and hour faster than Curtis Turner ran there in 1950. But this track it's racetrack but the drivers don't use it they only use about a you run run
1950s and '60s with some of the top drivers of the era. Holman-Moody won 96 Cup races with such star drivers as Curtis Turner , Joe Weatherly, Fred Lorenzen, Fireball Roberts, Dick Hutcherson, David Pearson and Bobby Allison. Pearson won
Ingram, owner/driver Cotton Owens, car owner Raymond Parks, two-time champion Buck Baker, driver Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, former R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. vice president T. Wayne Robertson, Curtis Turner and Joe Weatherly.
like Red Byron, Bob Flock and Roy Hall in 1949. In 1954, Fonty Flock took a turn in a Park’s car and in 1955, Curtis Turner drove for him. Even though he retired from racing in the mid-1950s, it is Parks who has helped preserve some of
star with a venerable team that has raced stock cars since 1950 and counts David Pearson, A.J. Foyt, Dan Gurney, Curtis Turner and Cale Yarborough among its driver roster. Bayne was happy to become the fifth Wood Brothers driver to stencil his