This is a story that is rarely seen in modern NASCAR. It seems that it was picked up from the Hollywood script or tag line. An old driver is given the opportunity to run the cars that he helps to make on the track where he made his name, fulfilling a dream, he thought that he was lost over time – and American motor) Against some of the biggest stars of.
This story begins Boman gray -A quarter mile asphalt oval which has been longer than NASCAR. The history of this Winston-Salem, North Carolina Track is fantastic, and 53-year-old Tim Brown has been a major part of it. With over 100 wins and 12 track championships, he is the most winning driver in the notorious ‘Madhouse’. Even he owns the track record with a 12.965-second flyer in a modified which has been standing since 2016.
When Brown Boman is not collecting trophies in Gray, he is in the shop Rick wear racing Helping the cup series cars running on the national stage every weekend with the assembly. As the Shikhar of Stock Car Racing announced his intentions to return to Boman Gray for the first time in more than half the century, Rick Ware did not take a long time to find out that he wanted to drive his number 15 car. Conflict. Fortunately, he was already working in the shop.
Dream
Rick Ware, Tim Brown
Photo by: Rick Wear Racing
Brown earned his first track championship in Bowman Gray in 1997, in 1997 and 1998, in 1996. During that time, the dream of reaching the heights of stock car racing was at the forefront of his mind, but as the years passed, the dream faded. Just before winning his fourth track title in 2002, he felt that his possibilities of making NASCAR it were all on.
“Once I turned 30, I realized that it was all young children who were getting opportunities with cup teams,” Brown told Motorsport.com. “And the corporate sponsors or rich families were riding money behind them and not people like themselves who come from farming at the ground level – (we) did not have much money to support me. To make hard work.
Some thought that this day would ever come. Brown was shocked to know that NASCAR was also considering returning to Boman Gray. The last time the cup cars ran there, Brown was just one month old. And despite all the successes, he enjoyed in his career, it was certain that the day he was able to tell his son Cam, daughter Marley, and wife Megan that he would be going to the cup racing “from the moments of my most proud moments One was life.
Tim brown with your family
Photo by: Rick Wear Racing
But a proud moment for Brown, cup driver is already mourning the fact that he will not be able to bend at Boman Gray Veteran for advice, as he discovered his expertise due to recent conversations I had a conversation with a driver. Brown told him comicly: “Naah, you are on your friend. I am trying to defeat you, not helping you!”
Despite the experience of thousands of its laps, Brown is putting his expectations in front of him for a challenge. “I am a racer. I want to go and win the race, but I too have to be realistic. As a racer deep inside, you want to go and want to put it on them and win this thing but win it but In all reality, if we can go and be competitive and make a good show, I will be happy with it. “
Racing pieces, parts and hearts
These days there are many drivers in the field that can actually keep the cars that they are running together. This ‘crook’ knows both the track and the car that it is better than almost everyone below it.
“I would like to think that I really help make a car and bol it together and will help to drive it on the chassis dyen and drive it around the parking lot, but the man, these teams have like this. Cars in this industry are not really an advantage in this industry, which are working on those who are working on.
This is something that separates him the cup regularly, and it is part of the reason that weekend warriors in Boman gray are so disappointed that when their cars are torn. Those racing machines. When they enter the ‘Madhouse’ in a few days, this will not be a matter for the stars of NASCAR.
Brown said, “These people are the best racers in the world.” You tear $ 1,500 from my race car, I am very upset about it. This is probably a bit different.
He said, “I am paid to work on race cars whether they are torn or away from winning the confession, so it is not going to change anything from behind the wheel,” he announced.
Rick Ware, Tim Brown
Photo by: Rick Wear Racing
Emblazing the spirit of ‘Madhouse’
The infamous reputation of the Madhouse includes a lot of plays, often flowing with the templates, and Brown themselves are in the middle of some viral moments.
“If you run at that location for some sessions, you are going to one of the highlight reels to make sure,” Brown said. “I have run there for 33 years, so I am not proud of it, especially now I have two children who can get on YouTube and watch Dad’s videos (and are very emotional about it.
‘This is part of racing in Boman Gray.’ Quarrels, pebacks and hurt feelings are ideal on this incredibly tight single-drain track. The only real way to move forward is to use bumper, which is bound to promote conflict.
Tim brown
Photo by: Rick Wear Racing
While the promotion is real, there are still people who do not understand that NASCAR, who left the traditional Detona Clash in favor of attractive markets such as Los Angeles, is now running in Bowman Gray. But Brown feels that this is a great decision.
“There are going to be naysayers who think that this race is not good, but I believe one thousand percent if you are going to track 1/4-mile race with a cup car, then it is to be a boon Hai Gray Stadium.) A big city – you are going to attract that market and that crowd, but for your local race fans who come to the stadium every Saturday night – to see the race – cup cars It is absolutely amazing to bring back.
Looking at itself for the race, we will see experienced doubts that cup cars crack the bracket of 13-second, and cars will be likely to a second per lap to a second clock than their lap record. But the return of NASCAR brings some upgrades and improvements with them, allowing drivers to change the way to attack the track.
Brown told, “They have taken the surface of racing away from us with safe walls a little away, which is fine because it is the same for everyone, so we only learn the groove again,” Brown explained, “Brown explained, Who is happy with the work. Circuit. “Now I have a part that hates to see the old railing and some heritage which was near the stadium. A part of mine is sad about this but I understand it.
“I am not saying that this is going to be the best cup race you have seen, but this is a very big thing for fans and racers. If you look at the history of that place – then your arranheads and boxes and allison – they all used to run there. You are taking it back from where it all came. how cool is that?”
Depending on the crowd sold, he is not the only one that feels like this. And he will not be the only local hero in the race as Burt Myers has also entered the event, running the number 50 car. Rick Ware is the smallest team compared to the racing cup series and never won, but does she roll the Ford Mustang Houler fast or is difficult to handle, Brown promises one thing: “I give it 110% Wala, whatever way it goes.
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