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Originally Posted by Charles Nungester
Yup, seen him run NW many times and I think still the highest single purse winner in sprint cars ever at 200k at the Mopar Million. And who came from fifteenth to lead a third of that race eventually finishing third two two guys who race three or four times a week... Dickie Gaines A guy who's father I paid respects to tonight at the Burg. DIckie had car problems and couldn't run.
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Not so sure I would promote that as a victory for Dickie vs. "these guys" that race three and four times a week. Dickie was racing about every weekend and was traveling at the time in his career and winning and won at Osky in that time frame. Dickie's career was largely non wing with the exception of when he first started and he ran some wing stuff.
Just be glad Quaker State wouldn't release Steve from the WoO show in NE that weekend or this conversation gets more slanted.
Stevie Smith had never driven a non wing car till that weekend. Steve Smith actually called people up to understand how to set up the car because they had no idea how to set it up. There is a reason some of these guys are professional racers.
In regards to Jac, he's old school. He started without the wing much like all his peers in his age group. You can't say Steve, Sammy or Wolf are exclusively wing because they started without. The one thing they all did was make sure they got paid to be a professional sprint car driver and followed the money, which is exactly the epitome of this post.