Hikori, North Carolina – He did not win this, but every fan of Nascar recalls how Dale Ernhardt’s daily red paint scheme, in which the pelvis from The Looney Tunes participated.
For 2000 Daytona 500, the Ernhardt team abandoned its traditional Black Goodwrench Plus scheme, painted the car red and hit the hood of its Chevrolet Monte Carlo. The popular and unstable animated character was part of the GM Goodwrench advertising campaign at that time. Traillazir in the Nascar merchandising, soon there were Hats and Faces of Ernhardt with the participation of the pelvis, to which his faithful fans flocked.
The seven-time Winston Cup champion drove well in the basin of the basin in Deuton that day, running the fourth with about 30 circles to go, and even exchanged some red paint with his son at Budweise No. 8 of the newcomer. But the incident with Jimmy Spencer with about 10 circles to become a package that has come across in the middle, and Ernhardt died at the 21st. The TAZ body was cut off chassis No. 58, and the Hasbro toy company acquired it, broke it into small pieces and turned on these parts in the winner circle Dicstates that were soldField
Ernhardt died a year later, tragically at the Daytona 2001 Daytona 500 in the crash that changed the sport, and the TAZ car has never seen again.
The ZMAX Cars Tour series on the late modeling automobile machine, which belongs to Daile Ernhardtu Jr., was one of the largest races in the season last weekend at the Hikori Historical Motor Asso in the west of Northern Carolina. The BlackBack Classic, announced by the “biggest night in the history of the late model race on the sidewalk”, had the richest wallet for a tour of cars: 50,000 dollars for the winner of the late stock race and $ 30,000 for the winner of the Pro Late Model Race.
And the additional layer of coolness and nostalgia for the event is that the drivers were recommended to honor past legends about sports and memorable cars using staining schemes. For example, Conner Jones drove a white car No. 48 with a declaration of Law on it as a nod Jimmy Johnson. Blaine Harrison and Dawson Sutton both had Darrell Waltrica schemes on his cars. There were also a tribute to Jeff Gordon, Alan Kulvitski, grow Walles, David Pirson and Steve Park, among others.
Barnes, the youngest, always knew that if he got the opportunity to participate in this race, there was only one scheme that he wanted to have his car: a basin.
“I watched this race and saw the return of everyone else, and I said:“ If I'm going to do one, I’m going to make a Tasman devil’s car. ” It was at the top of my list. “It was my favorite car when it was.”
So, the basin was this weekend at the Hickry Motor Speedway. The race was postponed on Sunday from rain, but Barnes ran well in it, taking fifth place in the late competition of the late model.
The 27-year-old football player from Harford, Maryland, who travels at Lee Pulliam’s performance, Barnes does not have enough memories of watching Ernhardt race when he was a child, but became a fan of goods.
“I don’t know if it was Likhka who turned me, but I could tell you all Dale Ernhardt's paint schemes,” Barnes said. “I had my own loved ones, and was always a fan of the youngest.”
If there were any loopholes, to pass in order to run in a racing car with an Ernhardt color scheme, Barnes did not know about them.
“Sometimes it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission,” Barnes laughed. “I wrote it to Daler, the youngest, and he said that it looked cool. When I wrote it to him, it was half wrapped in, so in the past it was in some way that I was not. their.
For Barnes, the fifth place was the finish of his third five top-five years in the Cars Tour round and the seventh in the top 10 out of 10 races.
This time, the TAZ car will not be cut into small collecting items for a toy company. Nevertheless, Barnes said that he plans to cut off the door and ask his team and sign it to sign it before hanging her in his garage in Florida.
