Originally Posted by ronmil:
My records show that I attended a WoO race at Paragon on Sept. 2, 1978. I had forgotten that it was a WoO race. I remember that it was a 150 lapper and that was my first trip to Paragon. I seem to recall a rather large fire in the pits during a refueling stop. I believe the driver involved was Mike Waltz and just a short time later he was fatally injured at Bloomington.
This was an unfortunate situation. When the car caught fire during a pit stop it burned/deteriorated the stitching in the seat belts which gave way when he flipped the car a short time later.
