Did anyone here ever see the program where Ned Jarrett and Dale Jarrett got to drive each others cars from when they were driving Cup/Grand National? Ned's 63 Bonneville or Catalina and Dale's modern day Cup Car(I think at Talladega)? Ned got in his old school car and after 20 or so laps was turning times comparable with times he turned back in the day. Dale got in the same car and it flat out scared the Poop out of him(He did not come close to the speeds his OLD man was running). They switched and let Ned drive the Cup car and he had the damn thing up to qualifying speeds on modern races inside of 10 laps. That tells me that the driver is a huge part of this equasion(sp). Made me appreciate the older drivers alot more...they had/have stainless steel balls and big ones at that.
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Jim
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