On 23 January 1973, the Penske team were testing their AMC Matador NASCAR car at Riverside. Two days earlier, Donohue had won the Winston Cup race at Riverside in the car, lapping the entire field. The Lola T330 was also present at the test session, having just arrived from England. Wh...
Bill Baker later died of a heart attack while practicing for a NASCAR Grand National West race at Sears Point International Raceway in August 1978. The Lola was not seen again and is presumed destroyed. However, a great-nephew of Baker recalls that the car was complete when Baker died, but...
Ray McNulty
Then with the Xbox 360 I got Forza 2 and the Microsoft wireless racing wheel. By this time I had quit PC gaming completely and only played on consoles. I liked the simplicity of not having to constantly upgrade hardware and make sure all the latest drivers were installed every time a new...
However, the demographics of NASCAR changed and the sponsorship turned out to be less than effective. (Though it’s interesting to see that attribution was still an issue during their analysis.) MentalFloss has a nice section on their Moving Billboards piece that details the value of NASCAR ...