On this day (Dec 1) in 1963 Wendell Scott became the first (and only so far) African American to win a NASCAR Cup race, as the times of those days however, he was originally denied the win, but NASCAR later gave it to him claiming there had been a “scoring error”.
On this day in 1944 Dutch double world champion (1971,1973) on 50cc, Jan de Vries was born. Jan was also runner up to Angel Nieto in 1972 - by a mere 21 seconds since both came even in podium positions, lap times were counted on aggregate
Happy 76th anniversary!
"Those who risk nothing, do nothing, achieve nothing, become nothing" - David Jefferies
Sixty years ago today, one of the largest pileups in motorsports history occurs in the NASCAR Modified sportsman race at Daytona, involving 37 cars, with 24 of those knocked out of the race.
On this day 20 years ago, the first ever NASCAR Truck series race at Daytona was held, with Geoff Bodine involved in one of the worst accidents in the sports history. Remarkably Bodine only missed 11 races. Nine spectators were also injured.
a bloke called Michael Schumacher scored the first podium of his career, c
He came 3rd behind Mansell and Patrese in Mexico driving his Benetton. He also qualified 3rd behind the same two.
It was just his 8th GP race start.He went on to score 155 podiums in his 308 race career, a strike rate of just over 50%.
* I started life with nothing, and still have most of it left
“Good drivers have dead flies on the side windows!” (Walter Röhrl)
* I married Miss Right. Just didn't know her first name was Always
On this day in 1993, Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Alan Kulwicki is killed in a light plane crash near Bristol, Tennessee. He was just 38 years of age, and is still to this day the last owner/driver to win a championship. As a tribute the following day, his hauler took a lap of the speedway as it left the track, being shown the chequered flag one last time. His team ran a further 17 races that year with Jimmy Hensley driving for 15 of those, before handing the #7 over to Geoffrey Bodine, a close friend of Kulwicki’s.
Happy Birthday Mario. 
