Fat arse stock car drivers

Rod Greene · 12-28-2009, 12:40 PM

I was at a meeting with NHRA run by Bernie Partridge in late early 70's at the old Ontario Motor Speedway. There were a lot of Stock and Super Stock guys there Steve Steele , Norm Nevin, Marcel Cloutier, Richie Pauley (I just remember the Ford guys for some reason). We discussed the driver weight issue. Obviously there was a wide range of driver sizes at that meeting. I think we were asking for 200 lbs but ballast wasn't legal back then except for the "oversized spare tires" some of us ran. I think Bernie said how about 170 most everyone said better than nothing and shortly after it was implemented. That is how I remember it.
We also raced the cars at shipping weight not at a minimum weight for class.

12-28-2009, 12:40 PM	#20
Rod Greene Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: TN Posts: 530 Likes: 429 Liked 242 Times in 81 Posts	Re: Fat arse stock car drivers I was at a meeting with NHRA run by Bernie Partridge in late early 70's at the old Ontario Motor Speedway. There were a lot of Stock and Super Stock guys there Steve Steele , Norm Nevin, Marcel Cloutier, Richie Pauley (I just remember the Ford guys for some reason). We discussed the driver weight issue. Obviously there was a wide range of driver sizes at that meeting. I think we were asking for 200 lbs but ballast wasn't legal back then except for the "oversized spare tires" some of us ran. I think Bernie said how about 170 most everyone said better than nothing and shortly after it was implemented. That is how I remember it. We also raced the cars at shipping weight not at a minimum weight for class. __________________ Rod Greene Real men shift for them selves. Slowly working on TA Challenger for D,E/S and a 72 Challenger for SS/K, L as if I don't have enough other projects. Last edited by Rod Greene; 12-28-2009 at 12:44 PM.