Just some random thoughts as they come to mind.
1. Bill France was lying through his teeth when he said the drug test was flawed, but they didn't know it at the time. NASCAR rigged it to keep him off the track.
2. I have a new found respect for Dale Earnhardt for asking France to let Richmond drive in the Busch Clash. I wasn't aware of that.
3. Same goes for Kyle Petty for admitting the drivers through ignorance didn't support Tim, and regretting personally not being a friend.
4. Cannot say the same for Kyle's father. Still hinting that Tim was "good on the track because he was on something that enhanced his driving ability.
5. I was aware that his mother put the brakes on his Indy car career, (I have related the story in VN long ago) but I didn't know she threatened to divorce Tim's father if he didn't quit. NASCAR with the safer cars became the compromise.
6. I remember talking to Tim in Ashland when he had first started Indy cars. I asked him if it was as much of a rush as I imagined it to be to drive over 200mph into turn one at Indy, and he said how ever much I imagined couldn't be enough.
7. I also remembered the last time I talked to Tim. I was the race steward at The Kingsport Speedway, and we got Tim to come and sign autographs the Friday before the Bristol Race. His sponsor was Old Milwaukee, and I had sold a sponsorship package to the local distributor. True to form Tim showed up with two women any guy would die to spend one night with, inebriated the night before a race. We reminisced about his dirt track days in Ohio, and he said that was light years away. I wish I could have spent more time with him, and not just because of the two hot chicks.
