Dick Johnson NASCAR Shunt
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@JBofBrisbane You certainly do remember correctly (much better than me thats for certain). I'm not sure if you've seen it, but I stumbled across this video a while ago.
/watch?v=RvRL1PCHDHM
It was an interview with Dick and Barry Sheene in Andrew Denton's tv show. The story we both refer to starts at 5:17 in the video, but the whole interview itself is absolutely brilliant.
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@z3J - Four years ago, I know, but IIRC that "f#%kin' prick" Dick was referring to turned out to be none other than "The King", Richard Petty, who Dick normally respected as a bit of a hero.
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Talking to a driver during green flag runs was common in Australia (hell, DJ would be racing around the top of bathurst whilst having a convo to the commentators about how much one of the lappers had shit him off. Always alot of fun).
He never had any luck at oval racing in Australia either, the first 2 Calder Park races (australian 1.3mile lowes clone) he entered he ended up in multicar crashes (a broken arm as a result of the first one).
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And his gay evil twin TheAmusingCorpse..
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SHARKY 108111 Did It...
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I miss the in-car audio of the engines back then, loud and clipping.
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Ah - thanks for that James - I'd forgotten why he used to make me laugh so much when I was a kid.
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I believe he did. Still hiliarious.
This was not the last race Dick Johnson would drive in NASCAR. He would make 3 starts in 1990, including here, and, at the spring race at Darlington. And wpsracing108, they weren't laughing at him because he crashed or because he was a foreigner, they were laughing because he said "AH FUCK!!" right before he crashed.
wirbelwindbattleship 4 years ago 11
I still want to shoot the cunt that threw a rock on the track at bathurst.
MrKnoxville351 4 years ago 10