Dave Despain On Assignment: Talladega

here we go babe nineteen cars / we turned him yikes oh my gosh oh it's exciting stuff ah right a celebration twice a year of big stars fast cars in yes the almost inevitable Talladega big one hi everybody I'm Dave Despain my assignment this time figure out how all this came about answer some questions for example how did the biggest baddest fastest racetrack in the world get built out here at rural Alabama at a place the locals call Talladega and the rest of us have been mispronouncing now for more than 40 years and this howcome opening weekend here turned into one of the most controversial races in NASCAR history promise you this no matter how you say its name the story of the birth of Talladega Superspeedway is fascinating stuff let's be clear there are lots of different stories about the origins of what was originally known as Alabama International Motor Speedway and about the man who built it the primary site and the site that was everyone expected he would build that the racetrack was over near Raleigh he wanted to build Talladega and north of Greenville South Carolina I don't care what anybody says that's that's where he really wanted to do it all right we have our first disagreement disagreement the hallmark of the first racing weekend at this place in fact disagreement it's what this whole show is about but we can agree on this the man at the center of this story the stock car racing giant who put Talladega Alabama on the map is big Bill France you know the story the sports patriarch raced on the old Daytona Beach course he founded NASCAR in 1948 to bring order to the racing game then built his Motorsports cathedral its name synonymous with stock car racing Daytona International Speedway opened in 1959 with the first running of the Daytona 500 considering that in 59 nearly 60% of NASCAR races were on dirt Daytona was a revolutionary change but big bill wasn't finished he soon set about building and even more super speed would Talladega the days the dirt tracks were rapidly growing to a close so he realized that especially with TV coming on board to more and more interest from the network's that the races had to be spectacular and that's where he felt well Daytona is up and running and working well let's just expand on this idea I think that was very important to build have the biggest and best racetrack in the world and this sure was going to be it he wanted to outdo Daytona a little bit so he made the turns a little bit wider and a little bit more steep and he made the track just a little bit longer just so you know the track would be a little bit faster and yet to help put it on the map it's only 12 feet wider than in Daytona and 1/10 of a mile longer but it looked about 30 foot wider and look about 2 miles longer he was humongous I talked Daytona was big but then you look at that track he looks like if you put Daytona inside it could have been a big success story stock car impresario expands his empire builds the most super of super speedways has a big opening day race everybody goes home happy but it didn't go down down but in the who indeed instead I have for you a story of perseverance and politics of union-busting and Driver outrage of chances taken and opportunities lost we're going to hear from the big stars who refused to race from the little guy who won the race and from the two guys who still insist 40 years after the fact oh wait a minute he didn't win we did stick around I think this is going to be welcome back building on the immediate success of Daytona International Speedway bill France seniors set out in the 1960s to build the world's biggest and fastest racetrack in South Carolina South Carolina had a blue law at that time where you could not race on Sunday that's why the southern 500 used to be run on Labor Day he tried to get the blue law lifted but he couldn't get it done so he headed elsewhere elsewhere turned out to be here Anniston Alabama we're about 20 miles from the actual track site the selection of location well let's see the cast of characters in that story include the controversial governor of Alabama the US Department of Defense and the guy who first sent the search in this direction a colorful NASCAR race driver turns out Aniston owes a huge debt of gratitude to foggy flock one of NASCAR's first champions old fadi retired in the 50s and went to work for Bill Friends I've got involved anything around 1965 through fani flock there's his idea to build a track in Alabama funny who said that he's new place in Anniston that'd make a great place for a racetrack but it was just a small piece of land that had a one dirt road leading back to it mr. Frantz told me to find him a thousand acres of land a near and interstate and he would look at it two or three months later Bill Ward called him and told him that you need to click at this Airport over Talladega said that make a good place that proposed site between Atlanta and Birmingham was within easy driving distance for thousands of fans there was no really big track in that area Nashville wasn't far away so they had they had potential to drone terrific crowds it's sitting out there and a little small town but it's surrounded by all these people it was also in the middle of nowhere it was staggering I guess because it was so remote after you leave the airport in Birmingham there was a fruit stand between the airport and in the racetrack I guess and there was about is you know maybe one service station that's one thing about race tracking bill out in the middle of nowhere and people will come and those people bring tourist dollars of fact not lost on the governor of Alabama on the national stage George Wallace was one of the most controversial figures of the turbulent 60s back home in Alabama he knew a good thing for his constituents when he saw it they got governor Wallace involved and and they made it financially possible for for Daytona International Speedway corporation to acquire the property on extremely favorable terms but the mutually beneficial relationship between big bill France and governor Wallace required a bit of negotiation remember the criteria of Bill France gave Bill Ward for his track site a thousand acres next to an interstate this is i-20 it was built at the same time as the racetrack the racetrack which is conveniently located right about there here's the thing you know interstate highways work to get the fans from here to right over there big bill needed an exit he talked to Governor Wallace and told him said I said I need an eight mile stretch of road connecting the exits from the interstate well this told him said well bill you build a track and output a road in and be looked at and said no it doesn't work that way you build the road and then I'll build a track as it turns out interstate 20 provided bill France more than just a convenient way for his fans to get to the track once he had the sight once he had the financing once the governor had conveniently built that eight lane access road it was time to find somebody to actually construct the facility bill found just the right guy out here building i-20 mayor Talladega and one of the county commissioners said well we know the contract are they doing the interstate out there and they're a big contractor they can probably they can they can build it for you basically our contract was a eight nine one page eight and a half by 11 sheet of paper in essence stated we would build the biggest and fastest racetrack in the world next came a fascinating final negotiation the hilly track site required a lot of expensive earthmoving the old world war ii fighter base next door was already flat and that got big bill thinking when war was over the united states government made a deal with time to dig up give them the airport and the land around it and but they had to agree to keep it up otherwise the government could take it back well it turns out that Airport was not maintained it was in bad shape when the Vietnam War started and the military needed to fly ammunition from the Anniston Army Depot to the west coast so france-based for that giant earthmoving bill solved everybody's problems he negotiated a good arrangement with the city of Talladega to build him a new runway that would could handle chance he build the airport to meet FAA standards and the military standards and in turn they would give him the airport roughly a thousand acres may 23rd 1968 groundbreaking for the Alabama International Motor Speedway bill France kicking things off with a bag literally he had aerial bombs planted in each of the four turns and one at the start/finish line and he said over here is the first turn and kaboom when an aerial bomb off in the distance then here's going to be the second turning kaboom win another aerial bomb and then you went to the third turn in the fourth turn and then to the start/finish line and you could really get a sense of how big this was going to be for certain people were excited about this big track however none more so than the local racing hero Bobby Allison lived down the road Hueytown Alabama Bobby and enthusiastic pilot made good use of these runways that you can still see in the Talladega infield they're a vivid reminder that this place was built on an old airbase and I'd fly my little airplane over there and land on mothers stretches the old runway and get out and watch him run the tractors and all this in fact I was pretty fond of Daytona and now they were gonna build one that was supposedly bigger and better and all the good stuff right there in my adopted home constructing a super speedway required some innovative techniques from a guy accustomed to building highways the main challenges were modifying our equipment and setting it up to where we could make it work and we overused were side boom tractors up on top of the bikes and we've run a cable down and tied to the rollers and to the pavement machine and it looked like a tremendous pile of dirt out there as they begin to build those banks and what four stories high and then the finished product is one thing seen it in construction is how opening this for what it takes to put it together the building it changed every day and it was like a living breathing thing and it grew like a child every day into this monstrous facility actual construction took 16 months and had to have a vision to know what it was going to be into a knowledge I didn't I couldn't fathom what it was going to be money was tight the track facilities bare-bones six weeks before the first race France told Moss I need a press box and a couple of sweets and I don't have any more monies we told him we'd do it it cost if he would allow us to build her a suite of her own this is Bill boss's suite he still uses it every weekend it's pretty deluxe although back on that first race weekend the tables were plywood on saw horses there was no glass in the windows and the VIPs had to wear ear plugs never mind the cosmetics though the big thing the track was finished and ready to race and just as Bill France promised this place was big it was just massive I mean I mean never seen anything like that big and wide and he knew it's gonna be fast and resistant just a huge thing you know it blew my mind first thing I couldn't imagine anything that big and I just couldn't that steep in the bank bill France put me in the car and drove me around there to face speech so I was very impressed with well racer turned promoter bill France was destined to make one more lap a very famous lap on that opening weekend and he did it to make a point in the midst of NASCAR's most dramatic confrontation ever with its drivers stick around the controversial first race at Talladega is still ahead bill thing you told me if I was scared to go home and when he said that to me Leroy said from behind me in and punched him in the face and knocked him down in the summer of 1969 Bill Frances second super speedway bigger and faster than Daytona was nearly complete it was time to sell tickets for the first big race and the big track provided the perfect sales pitch from my perspective as someone who was charged for selling tickets at that event it was all about will when will crack the 200 mile an hour barrier which is what we said this track would support so when did the 200 mile per hour barrier fall march 1970 six months after the first Talladega race Buddy Baker wheeled as dodge to a one-lap average of 200 point four four seven so why didn't the cars go 200 on the tracks opening weekend there's a one-word answer to that question tires the tire problem surfaced after the practice began for the for the race now we were there on a mount Wednesday of race week and went out run a few laps and and the tires begin to come apart we've put on new tires for qualifying in four laps I told all four tires up so it was really it was a bad situation all around I think the the tire engineers realized that this was kind of a different animal here you know they're getting into speeds that they had never traveled before you had different different stresses on the tires at Daytona I had no problem because we'd run the car there a lot and but it was just the difference in the g-forces and downforce of the car at Talladega because of the speediest running back then two tire companies Goodyear and Firestone confronted this new challenge the highest speed stock cars had ever run and they both had problems been flying in different convents every night and they brought in this compound we're in for laps and he came in and I couldn't believe it that tires look like strands of spaghetti smoking it's pretty horrifying to think that a guy had been out there running on something like that what none of the engineering solutions worked and it became clear the tires simply could not survive at Talladega speed bill France got some bad news Firestone pulled out we had a meeting and said hey we can't build a tire for this racetrack it's too fast and you gotta remember race drivers were dying in those days these weren't a chance of going and hitting some softball and bouncing off of it and and being sore the next day this was these were people that were getting killed given the risks the drivers those with the most to lose faced some serious decisions we wanted to run in a worse way but we did more to run under the circumstances that we was going to running from the safety standpoint of getting somebody hurt somebody killed it's like Russian roulette only we know that the bullets in the chamber do you pull the trigger that's that's feeling I had it was pretty tense little groups were people talking and they would break up and reform and groups talking here and groups talking there and then of course the press people and chasing them around trying to hear what was going on it was something something different than I'd ever seen before so you had a little meeting over here that's okay let's just talk the Cranston say you know give the tire companies you know a week or two to come up with a solution on what your problem is and well you know we want to run here it's not a deal with the protest this thing hey they're having a race and they paying good money we want to be there that under the circumstance of the safety deal we said we don't need to be here and so oh heck oh heck indeed with fans and media flocking in lured by the specter of 200 mile per hour racing bill France was not about to postpone Talladega 'he's first big race his financial future hung in the balance he had everything on the line and the people say you know if that race hadn't happened he probably would have been bankrupt he had gone terribly in debt building Talladega and so International Speedway company was in right on the Brinks of bankruptcy and the worst thing you can do to an event is postpone it for any reason it just knocks all the momentum out now let's consider one more reason why bill France resisted postponing that first race you see that idea didn't just come from the drivers it came from a drivers organization that's a little different thing a few weeks earlier the professional drivers Association was created and the pda's idea was to increase the competitors voice in NASCAR to improve the racing conditions and to lobby for benefits like insurance and pensions now that sounds just a little bit like a union and NASCAR's attitude about unions was pretty clear eight years earlier Curtis Turner tried to get the Teamsters to represent the drivers Phil France who called Turner the greatest race car driver I've ever seen ban NASCAR's biggest star for four years now this new driver organization PDA had chosen as its president NASCAR's biggest stall has only one sitting still I guess when everybody pointed at me we were having some good years along there and we were kind of the leader of the pack between me and Alison he was just one of those deals that they feel like that we had more clout maybe than some of them about talking to the NASCAR talking to trans the PD a role in that inaugural Talladega weekend has been debated ever since there are those who believe the organization went to the race looking for a cause around which to rally the drivers to show the PD a strength and that the new tracks tire problem was the perfect issue well first of all I had no idea there would be any kind of a safety issue period and so there was no way to to associate the idea of you know we'll have this Union to support us if there's a problem because we had no idea that was going to be a problem the PDA was not really organized or had dirt there's stuff in a row to be able to go and protest anything or ask for anything and this was just a deal that all the drivers I think even if it hadn't been a PDA I think the drivers would have stood there and neck the neck and said we ain't gonna do this our necks out there on the road and you you won't run I won't run he will run okay we'll just say okay we're not gonna do it premeditated or not the PDAs position that the race should be postponed was never gonna fly with the man who built Talladega bill didn't like anybody stepping on his toes or trying to you know horn in on his baby more or less he was the kind of guy who could take the heat and he would look it right in the eye and not flinch not too many people went up against a big bill and walked away intact if you will still ahead this test of wills comes to a head and the eventual winner of the first Talladega 500 is stuck in the middle PDA on one side his boss on the other he told me that morning he says I'm forcing you to do this what he says this cars gonna be in the race if you don't drive it somebody else will and then he walked away welcome back to the Talladega Superspeedway you know after all the hard work financial investment political wheeling and dealing that bill France had to do just to get this place built his opening race weekend was shaping up to be a disaster neither Firestone nor Goodyear could build a tire that could handle the high bank speed on this huge tri-oval the drivers were arguing that the conditions were just too dangerous to race and the event should be postponed desperate times calling for desperate measures bill being racer at heart he went out and he bought a brand-new Ford from home on the Moody and he owed out and turned 175 mile an hour laps at the age of 60 and then he came back and said you know look if an old man can drive around there at this speed what's wrong with you guys yeah he went out there and run I don't know several laps at 150 mile an hour well they wasn't no problem at 150 mile an hour but when you're running 50 mile an hour faster than that then when the problem came in whatever the speed france's drive got the racers even more riled up than they already were and it emphasized one of France's key points that the drivers simply would not accept bill France said well you don't have to run 190 mile rd he things around 175 and we all talked about you can't race 175 because somebody's gonna run 180 for the driver to say well I'm not gonna run wide over and he's not doing justice to himself to his car owner to ain't him to the fan or anybody else through all the debate and disagreement one thing did not change Frances position that the race would run as scheduled he was an absolute block of grant we're gonna run this race on schedule day if you don't want to run go home somebody else Laurent feel senior told him that we're going to have a race if it's nobody racist but myself and my son he was not gonna let the drivers dictate to him what he could do with what he couldn't do he was just bound and determined that that he was going to show the drivers up that hey we can't do this we're going to do it and come hell or high water we're gonna we're gonna show you we can do it I think that afraid he would lose control of everything and you know NASCAR is about control you and today but the records show and all the discussions debates and arguments throughout that contentious first weekend France never publicly acknowledged the existence of the drivers organization there were no discussions ever with the PDA because if we recognize the PDA for discussions we recognize the PDA and we refuse to recognize the PDA in those days so and never did race day drew nearer the tensions mounted the opposing voices grew steadily louder and one of the most outspoken drivers was the late Lee Roy Yarborough conversation that I will never ever ever forget big bill in that deep bass voice of his deeper than mine said Leroy you're a pilot and you take off in your plane and you encounter a storm what do you do you slow down and go around the storm and Leroy Yarborough said bill when there's a storm as bad as this damn racetrack I don't even take off perhaps inevitably rising tensions eventually gave way to physical confrontation at least according to the leader of the Alabama gang Bilson you told me if I was scared to go home and when you said that to me Leroy said from behind men and punched him in the face and knocked him down and then labor I said come on let's get out of here and they began to load their cars immediately I wasn't in on that deal they they told me about that I don't know if anybody hit anybody but I know there was a swing or two you okay more than fisticuffs it was the top competitors actually putting their cars on the haulers that brought the crisis to a head elective just about sundown I saw the blue smoke we roll out of that fatty engineering truck I knew they were leaving naturally I had to be the first one out the gate and then everybody followed along we all went home petty Pearson Narborough the whole bunch of they're on their way out they weren't just staging a sit-in or or a holdout they were serious and they were leaving I got up and I could look out my window and I could see where they were coming out and there were a string of them heading out for highway 78 and and they were gone and so Plan B went into effect you know it's no surprise to learn that France had a plan B he was a smart guy former racer understood how racers think so as the situation around him deteriorated he started to anticipate and plan for the worst case scenario a big race with no big stars but what was Plan B stick around we'll find out welcome back you know we've talked about all the pressure bill France felt to get that first Talladega race run with all the tire problems well think about the pressure on Chrysler Corporation Dodge have been getting its butt kicked by Ford the whole 69 season they came here with the wing car the Charger Daytona to turn that around in its debut race the Dodge driver line-up was interesting car number 71 was driven by the late Bobbie Isaac a legitimate NASCAR star and independent thinker who refused to join the PDA and bus was not part of the walkout at the wheel of the sister car number 99 was a relative unknown who had a date with destiny North Carolina Dodge driver Richard Brickhouse who supplemented his racing income testing Firestone tires had caught the eye of the Chrysler Corporation he went to Talladega with the opportunity of a lifetime to drive one of those new winged factory dodges he'd also joined the PDA blog just being one of the boys we wanted agree now people did you go get out there and race we entrust your life with whatever you got to be how we confident that you're one of them so when the PDA drivers threatened to go home Brickhouse had to choose be one of the boys or keep that factory ride Rani householder the head guy at Dodge put Richards choice in subalterns he called me over there too and his car was sitting there and he told me that morning he said there he says I'm not forcing you to do this this car is gonna be in the race if you don't drive it somebody else will and he walked away and that's when I made my decision the decision in a recorded message to the fans Brickhouse resigned from the PDA to drive the factory dodge and the rest of the field remember Bill Francis Plan B he invited the drivers from Saturday's preliminary to race again on Sunday among those drivers that local insurance man who first helped France find the site for the truck so we ran our race Saturday a 400 mile er and then Oh mr. France put all of our cars into the Sunday's race just feel in to make a field of cars and do is tickled to death to get the race again you know we're thrilled to death certainly the Saturday drivers were thrilled to race on Sunday but France still had to appease the fans who paid to see the heroes he did a magnanimous thing for the plans that came and he said if you keep your ticket stub it's good for any future race at Daytona which he also ran park here at Talladega you know that diffused a lot of hard feelings over we gonna get two for one and the next one would have been good for the Daytona 500 in February which was large and still is you know the granddaddy of all stock car races and so they said you know this it's not a bad deal so the big stars left but France stood his ground still has a field of cars the fledgling dodge star Brickhouse has made his decision and the fans seem happy all that's left is to run the race I was upset yeah and we're all upset here because I mean we knew we were in a race welcome back bill France was fond of naming facilities within his Speedway's in honor of people who up to get the places built this is the O V Hill grandstand oviya local mover and shaker a France ally in the Talladega project down there the James Hardwick medical center named for the mayor of Talladega for everybody involved in this project at whatever level the target date was September 14 1969 race day well that day dawned very differently from what anybody had anticipated but as Bill France said all along the race did go on it was an odd sight those two brand new wing dodges which the fans had never seen before easy to spot among a bunch of smaller pony cars and one AMC Javelin now it wasn't what anybody expected but history recalls that first race ran the full 500 miles with no major tire problems I didn't run fast enough I ran 140 miles an hour or something those little car 150 maybe but I ran the same set of tires Saturday and Sunday they're in 900 miles on set of tires garlic gotta get to that date are you putting on a big show here at the but what about those big fast dodges capable of speeds that had created tire problems all week well Isaac ran too fast early did burn up the tires eventually settled for fourth brick house played it the other way not using his huge speed advantage laying back making a race of it race car be around at the end of your race exactly what I did with Isaac out of contention brick house really had just one potential rival Grand Touring driver Jim Vandiver had stepped into Bobby John's car when Bobby chose not to race it was an old style non-winged dodge but very fast and as the laps wound down those two took off to decide it between them I just absolutely it was they had to be going 2530 miles an hour faster than their Brun previously the whole race an historic moment in NASCAR but wait we end this weekend of disagreement with a protest to this day Bandemer and his car owner our convinced Brickhouse was a lap down a lot of people in my pits that helped me keep track of the cards on a racetrack so I knew where mine was all the time and it led for many many laps when you need and you lead at the end in one race I was leading the race and because back in here somewhere he comes up and passes me well I didn't try to block you all that does is put him back in the saying well I can see your Jim and ahead of me and all I had to do was pass them you know just pick up and pick up a speed a little bit which I did that's what I did the last Levin laugh I was upset yeah and anyway we're all upset you know because I mean we knew we won the race there's no doubt about it Jim I don't want to hurt you ego never but I really I was just playing with you I'm just trying to make a race I mean it makes it makes a good story for them but they just didn't have let's face it did I wonder ace no doubt about it everybody knows it here's the thing NASCAR scoring said that the number 99 the Dodge a brick house won the race NASCAR scoring gets the final word in disputes like this once NASCAR decides who won they are not likely to change their mind when we come back the aftermath of the first Talladega 500 welcome back as we reflect on that first Talladega 500 and think about all the disagreement and conflict and head-butting we arrived at the inevitable final question who won that list certainly begins with Richard Brickhouse though Rafe oxygen Vandiver may still need some convincing and the first Talladega race winner had big plans it was the Duncan was I was a shoo-in for a fact to ride the next year looked like I couldn't move in fact after I won the race I was so comfortable I went traded my airplane for 200 mile an hour airplanes over and between Preston and Chrysler I was gonna be on the move but Firestone never returned to NASCAR and Chrysler soon left in less than a year Brickhouse was semi retired he says he felt no ill-will from the professional drivers Association but at the next race he was spun out on the second lap photographer pal Parker says a couple of PDA drivers told him before the race where to stand to get these shots draw your own conclusions still Brickhouse has no regrets the best way to deal with the pants is to forget to bed and remember the good and move on and that's pretty much we have to erase a lot of good memory but what about the bigger picture in bill france's showdown with the professional drivers Association who won well bill one there's no question about it he he put on his race the race fans accepted it and we're on the outside looking in at the end of the deal and that was in the PDA of PDA ever had a chance of surviving and do good that it was gone forever instead of doing everything in the open we might have been better if we said okay let's get three or four of our drivers three or four NASCAR people let's get in a room and try to figure this out and we didn't do that and that was my fault because I wasn't professional left and what we was doing in order to do that there's never been another cover boy Kelly there's never been another attempt to form a union or a drivers Association and I doubt there ever will be certainly that Talladega confrontation with the PDA confirmed the France family's uncontested authority over the sport still won a big bill stalwart supporters thinks the driver walkout took a heavy toll I think that there was a crushing blow to Bill France senior it's always been my opinion that this was the moment when bill said I am going to retire sometime soon sure enough less than three years later France did retire handing the nascar reins to his son bill junior meantime big Bill's amazing Talladega Speedway remained the epicenter of stock car velocity the peak the spring of 87 when Bill Elliott sat on the pole at over 212 miles an hour but in the race Bobby Allison's car spun lift it off and flew into the catch fence a sobering moment for all concerned in the wake of Bobby's crash NASCAR mandated restrictor plates for the super speedway cars we have not sent scene of 200 mile per hour lap and now my favorite foot know we've talked the whole hour about the birth of a track we'll leave you with the birth of a team one of the Grand Touring drivers who helped France fill the field was a determined young racer named Richard Childress yes that Richard Childress you know I was driving a racecar just a young kid out trying to get a start living a dream and to be able to run our first Cup race back then it was really a thrill more than just a thrill that race was a Childress windfall that was one of the big breaks for me as I brought that money back home and bought some land and got my first shop with that's right that first Talladega 500 gave birth to Richard Childress Racing and we all know where that story goes RCR eventually hired a rough-around-the-edges mill town kid dale earnhardt who drove the iconic number three right into NASCAR's Hall of Fame Childress and Earnhardt became Talladega 'he's most successful team ever with ten trips to Victory Lane they all want more races in front of more fans than any other driver in the history of big bill Frances big truck significantly the Intimidator one is very last race here October fifteenth two thousand you know what that whole tale could make a great future edition of on assignment but for now the hour is over and our work here is done each year the Talladega Superspeedway adds a couple more chapters to its storied history having already contributed more than its share of exciting and dramatic moments for the all time NASCAR highlight reel but it all began on that crazy September weekend back in 1969 I hope you've enjoyed our little recollection of the birth of the biggest baddest Speedway in the world I'm Dave Despain so long from Talladega when you think of telling big it's got to be speed edge track the biggest and the best at speed when you're running 200 mile an hour that thing looks like off a one-way alley the track was so wide and so big you could go anywhere you when you couldn't show them just put on the tower those umbrella well I think this great big beautiful facility in my home state of Alabama I'm very proud there's one of those sizes I don't feel like I need to brag about it because they're sitting here bragging for me we ran a great race before a great crowd and launched a great speed

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Published: Thu Oct 04 2012