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By JOE DOWDALL spots a id showed three cuts or doing this but we’d rather superspeedway. Fords have
Detroit News Snorts Writer separations. break a car or a tire than one won all 12 races this season on
TALLADEGA, Ala.- of us.” the superspeedways.
“EITHER THE TIRES are The reason is the new Dodge
The fate of the $120,000 not ready to take the 190 to Should .today’s inspection not Daytonas.
Talladega 500-mile race 195 mile an hour speeds or else show any foreign objects which The Daytonas are the same
have been causing the tire fail
scheduled for. tomorrow there is something foreign in ures, the drivers plan to have Dodge . Charger “500’s” the
the track causing the right drivers have been racing all
hinges on an inch-by-inch tires vo have trouble,” said representatives of their newly year except for a lo» g shark”
formed professional drivers’
inspection of the new $5 Charles Blanchard, director of association meet with France nose and a stablilizer mounted
million Alabama Interna racing for Goodyear. to make the next step. 'on the back.
“That is why we have called “We stick our neck out The engine (Chrysler’s 426
tional Motor Speedway ’for minute inspection of the hemi) the body, the chassis
today. track to see if the crushed every time we climb into a and everything else are the
car,” said Richard Petty,
In an unprecedented move in granite; base may be wearing president of the PDA. “But same.
stock car racing, the drivers through’the asphalt and caus none of us are foolish enough But the new lov profile
held a post-qualifying tire test ing the tire failures.” to play Russian roulette for. front end designed t > reduce
date yesterday in hope the lat Bill France, president of the the sake of the show going drag and the wing-stabilizer in
est made race tires of Good- speech* ay as well as head of on.” the back have added 10 miles
year and Firestone would hold NASCAR, the overpowering The Alabama speedway is , an hour to the Doc ge*s top
governing body of stock car speed.
up on the rugged 2.66 mile nearly a bowl with the turns
course. racing, ordered the inspection. banked 33 degrees and the “There’s no comparison be
“If we find anything which
The drivers have been has erased the tire failures, we front straightaway 18 degrees. tween the two cars, ’ Glotz
plagued all vveek with their, will e ther remove it or fix it In comparison, the turns at bach said. “You dcu’t even
tires separating in their high if there is time. We will do Michigan International Speed drive as.hard and yet you go
speed runs on the untried everything possible to hold the way are only 18 degrees. They faster with the Daytona. We
used to drive our Chargers at
track. Goodyear pulled its tires are only nine degrees at In
which were especially ’ made race as scheduled.” dianapolis. 7,400 revolutions per minute to
fur the track Wednesday after The Talladega “500” is the The top of the track in the • try to stay with the Fords and
hoped the engines w .aid stay
the first day qualifiers pulled first >ace on the high-speed turns is 58 fert higher than together. ■
in with cut and split tires. oval which was designed and ■ the bottom. T e turns would
built to be the fastest race be like placing a ladder at “DOWN HERE with the new
Both Goodyear and Firestone
changed the composition of track in the world. 33 degrees against a.five-story front. end and the s tabilizer,
their tires but in yesterday’s Eigl t of the factory drivers building. we are turning oi )y 7.060
trials even the new tires cut or broke the closed course record The forces of gravity in the rpms and going fasfei ”
of 190.702 mile§ .an hour by
parted. • turns and the roughness of the. All the Dodge team drivers,
The factory drivers, seven more than six miles an hour in track caused the right front share Glotzbach’s enthusiasm
from Dodge and five from their qualifying runs. fenders of the Fords to blister for. the new cars.
■ But the drivers have pro
Ford, asked for the 11th hour tested all week that the track where the hot tires pound . “Lets face it,” , sa d Bobby
tire tests after-the qualifying' against the top of the fender... Isaac, “even the Fold drivers
was extremely rough and haz “There’s nothing like it any felt sorry fGr us on the super
trials were completed yester ardous. speedways. They beat us 12
day. “It’s not the tires* fault,” where,” said Cale Yarborough. straight times and k ew they
Pale sitter Charlie Glotzbach, said unior Johnson, a former “We are moving at 220 miles could take us practically any
who set a world close course drivei who now heads the Ford an hour going into the first tun’ time they wanted.
record of 199.466 miles an hour team of Lee Roy Yarbrough. and again on the back stretch. “But now they ar* hardly
in a new Dodge Daytona, and “Every time a driver goes “That’s why v e can’t take any talking to us. They respect
Ford’s Donnie Allison were around the track, it’s different. chances on anything but a per these new cars and are wor
picked by the drivers to run “T1 ere are either new holes fect track. Every driver will ried. They are saying the new
the tests on both* brands of or new patches. Some of the be too busy di Iving to do much ’ cars may not held up. But we’ll
tires. patches cause the tires to racing.” see about that tomorrow.”
The Firestones parted a n d bounce and at those speeds YARBOROUGH and his Ford Dodge engineers strapped ev
blistered in just eight quick they -ire bound to break when teammates have had to go all erything in front of t ..e radia
laps and were withdrawn from they contact the surface out for the fi st time trying tu tor on the Chargers <“>d added
the race. Glotzbach’s Daytona agair.” keep up with the Dodges on a an 18-inch long nose < one. The
suffered a broken suspension cone is wedgeshaped, designed
arm when it hit a hole in ths ALLISON, WHO had been the to split rather than push the
third turn and he was forced to fastest qualifier of the day with air. - . ...
pull in and change cars. a speed of 197.347, said as he
climbed into his car to make Cccmvtw c Ci '- “S
On his second try, the tires
on Glotzbaeh’s car blistered in the • ist: “We mav be nuts for
