| Photo ID # | e12.21.08_126_PAU_FLM_0080_1 |
| Car #: | #126 |
| Driver (s) : | Billy Pauch |
| Location: | Flemington, NJ |
| Date: | 1980's |
| Photographer: | Ace Lane Jr. |
| Photo provided by: | Frank Miller |
| Comments: |
A couple things come to mind when one looks at this photo... First,
Ace Lane Jr. takes a hell of a picture doesn't he? I mean if you
showed this photo to somebody who had never been to a dirt track race they
would think they were looking at a parked car, in the mud, with a guy just
sitting behind the wheel with his head turned to the right. Secondly, you look at this photo and you see how cars used to get around at the square... Kinda glided across the surface in a constant drift with the guy who could keep his momentum up the longest, and who could time that momentum so that he could sweep by his opponent before they even knew they were being challenged usually coming out on top. Nobody did that better than Billy Pauch. The fast way around today's speedway is to get as much weight transfer over to the outside, resulting in a bunch of cars leaning way over on their right side in way that most of us "old schooler's" will just flat out never accept. I know "graceful" is not a word that many rough and tough stock
drivers would probably use to describe the way they muscled their cars to
the front of the pack, but when you watched a field of modifieds drift their
way around the square, there is no other word to use. |
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