Checkered Past
Checkered Past: Boxing Day
December 26 in Germany, Poland and Sweden is St. Stephen’s Day. December 26 in Australia, New Zealand and Canada is Boxing Day. The post-Christmas tradition
December 29, 2021
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Checkered Past
Checkered Past: The Greatest Show On Tar
Ted Johnson joked that it would be a cold day in hell before his World of Outlaws ever laid rubber on asphalt. Yet on November
December 20, 2021
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Checkered Past: 2021 Vision
Nowhere to go but up. Quarantined by a world virus in 2020, the World of Outlaws of 2021 was an automatic improvement. Race dates grew
November 17, 2021
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Checkered Past: High Points
Never get caught staring at the standings. You hear it after two months of a six-month baseball campaign or Week Five of a 17-game football
October 20, 2021
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CHECKERED PAST: April Fools’ Night
April Fools’ Day is no holiday. No child is excused from school. No mail carriers hit the golf course. Auto racing does not circle the
April 1, 2021
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Checkered Past: Modified Outlaws
Jimmy Horton had a career decision to make. He had been chosen to follow Sammy Swindell into the Nance Speed Equipment that netted 1981-82 championships
March 16, 2021
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Checkered Past: Never Forget
“Let’s never forget what happened September 11th. They’re trying to change our country but we’re not going to let them.” Two decades ago, in the
March 3, 2021
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Checkered Past: Sunshine State of Mind
Florida is a unique peninsula to motorsports. More international racers have used it as a winter escape than a base of operations, Bill France and
January 26, 2021
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Checkered Past: Indoor Outlaws
Outlaws built the Chili Bowl. Sure it was Emmett Hahn’s brilliant idea to create the world’s greatest indoor track but he required Outlaws to fill
January 12, 2021
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Checkered Past: Aussie Outlaws
The day after Christmas is Boxing Day in Australia. It is a shopping festival not unlike Black Friday in America where “boxing” can mean fistfights
December 30, 2020
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