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Bill Blaylock Sanbornville, NH George Poteet, the King of Amateur Landspeed Racing Who Said He Never Got a Speeding Ticket, Dies at 76He topped 400 mph at least 55 times, in a meticulously designed, carbon-fiber-clad vehicle called the Speed Demon George Poteet at Bonneville’s Speed Week in 2020, where he set a new national record for piston-powered cars. Marc Gewertz By Jon Mooallem Follow Aug. 14, 2024 12:00 pm ET Save Share Text 6 Responses Listen to article Length(13 minutes) Queue Explore Audio Center There are only 13 people in the world who have driven faster than 400 mph in a piston-powered car. George Poteet did it more times than the other 12 combined. Poteet, a Memphis, Tenn.-area businessman who died July 16 at age 76, was a dominant force in amateur landspeed racing—a sport and subculture largely centered on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where, for roughly a century, racers and car builders have careened across the desert in every conceivable kind of tricked-out automobile. Poteet topped 400 miles an hour at least 55 times, in a meticulously designed, carbon-fiber-clad vehicle called the Speed Demon—a so-called streamliner car that he commissioned at considerable expense and that resembles a jet fighter without wings. A parachute explodes out of its back when it’s time to slow down. During Bonneville’s annual Speed Week in 2020, Poteet solidified his reputation by setting a new national record for piston-powered cars—which is to say, cars that are cars, with car engines inside them, and not cars with jet engines or rockets bolted onto their backs. (People used to race those at Bonneville too, but it’s no longer allowed.) The old record was 417 mph. Poteet obliterated it: 470.015. George Poteet’s vehicle, which he called Speed Demon. Photo: Michael Harrington But Poteet actually went faster than that. Some complicated fine print: The Southern California Timing Association, which oversees Speed Week, logs official records not as a driver’s absolute top speed but as an average of the fastest mile from each of two consecutive runs across the salt. (The driver who goes fastest on a single run every year does get their name on a trophy, however—and Poteet’s name is on it 10 times. Meanwhile, a separate, international organization, the International Automobile Federation, operates its own sanctioned events according to slightly different rules; Poteet has set six of its world records, too.) Anyway, during one of Poteet’s record-setting passes at Bonneville in 2020, the Speed Demon hit 481.576. At 481 mph, a car is traveling one mile every 7? seconds; you could drive the entire width of Manhattan in about as much time as it takes most people to sing the alphabet. At such velocities, even Poteet’s highly specialized, extra-burly tires basically became disposable. They were often torn up so brutally after a single run that they wound up looking like shredded black garbage bags. More in obituaries You can read other profiles here. As it happened, right after Poteet did 481 at Bonneville, the next driver in line went faster than he’d ever gone before too. But, this racer wrote in an online tribute, “We were still 310 mph slower than George.” Poteet was a conspicuously even-keeled man who spoke in a slow, imperturbable drawl. In real life, on real roads, he claimed to have never gotten a speeding ticket; he was frequently tailgated, impatiently passed. “I know people make fun of me on the express lane,” he told the Oil & Whiskey podcast in 2022. It started with a ’53 Dodge George Roundal Poteet was born Feb. 22, 1948, on his family’s small hog and cow farm in Mantachie, Miss. Neither his father, a sharecropper, nor his mother, a garment factory worker, had even a high-school education. Advertisement “Back then,” Poteet explained on the Hot Rod Blues podcast, “you had three modes of transportation: a bicycle, a horse or a worn-out car…. I decided it would be easier to keep a car running than to try to catch a horse every time you wanted to go somewhere.” He became infatuated, working on his mother’s ’53 Dodge, swappi

Fellow RHers, Gordon White has been a busy guy getting ready to set speed records. Thanks to Dave Rex for this article. https://enewspaper.vagazette.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=e96bcbb9-64ec-470b-ab71-4a67ec82de3e Gene Ingram New Castle, In. -- Gene Ingram List Owner New Castle IN USA

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Fellow RGers, Has anyone had contact with Gordon White? He was not at the Miller Meet this year. Gene Ingram New Castle, In. -- Gene Ingram List Owner New Castle IN USA

David (and all): Yes, the car apparently still exists as part of a private collection. It was on display in the IMS Museum back in 2011 as part of the 100th 500 Mile Race being run. I could be wrong but I don't think it has been back since. 1934: Boyle Miller (Bill Cummings) Car is part of the W.A. Goodwin Collection in Frankfort, Indiana, owned by William and Sonya Miller. It currently contains a prewar 255cid Offy. The Goodwin Collection is housed in the rear of the Goodwin Funeral Home, and is open for visiting daily, except when a funeral is in progress. There has been some mild dispute about the authenticity of the car. The collection includes a number of other important cars. In the spring of 2011 the car was included in the 100th Anniversary display at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum. Here's a list of the whereabouts of all of the 500 winning cars. There are a couple on this list that likely aren't true and are disputed by historians but at least it's a start. http://inrd.gotdns.com/indystuff/win.htm Randall Cook Indianapolis, IN -- Randall Cook Indianapolis IN USA

Can anyone please tell me if the Boyle Special that Wild Bill won the 1934 Indy 500 with is still in existence? My second cousin Roy Unversaw rode with Bill that day and as we are approaching the 100th anniversary of that event I would like (IF I live that much longer) to ride around the track before the race that day. Just asking Smitty Houston -- David Schmidt Highlands TX USA

Below is a link to one of Dick Wallen's videos, this one on sprint car racing up through the 1963 season (it is his volume 1; apparently there is a volume 2). Some of the highlights: It includes some good color on USAC, CRA and IMCA events. There are all of the notable sprint cars from the era: The Konstant Hot (which Foyt drove for a while); Bobby Marvin running a roadster on dirt; Foyt in Watson's Blue No. 9: Foyt in his own sprint car at DuQuoin; Fike Plumbing and Hurtubise's No. 56. Some of the races include the late Steve Stapp running with the leaders. IMCA ran 52 events in 1963. Check out the fair at St. Paul, MN. There were 50 drivers entered for two days of racing, including Jud Larson on a comeback. And check out the size of the crowd in the stands. The flagmen of the era were in my opinion just a little bit crazy. You will see them on almost all the tracks standing halfway across the main straight waving their flags as the winner -- or the field -- comes roaring by. This is a good video. Enjoy Bill Blaylock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNOS_1jSkJ4 -- Bill Blaylock Sanbornville NH USA

Check out this listing. A really neat looking custom, Indy roadster looking car. Current bidding when I posted this was $90K. Kinda looks like one of the old Pat Clancy Bardahl roadsters, doesn't it. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/troy-indy-special/ Enjoy Bill Blaylock -- Bill Blaylock Sanbornville NH USA

If you have not seen it, check out the late Robin Miller's 4 minute video on Parnelli Jones. https://racer.com/2024/06/05/from-the-archive-robin-miller-on-parnelli-jones/ Bill Blaylock -- Bill Blaylock Sanbornville NH USA

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Here is an obit on Bob McCreadie that appeared in the N.Y. Times last Thursday. I was only vaguely familiar with McCreadie, but you will note from the obit that he had quite a fan following in New York. I am posting this because it appeared in the Times, which by reputation has one of the most sophisticated readerships. I think it is an honor that the Times has commemorated McCreadie and paid tribute to his career on the short dirt tracks he ran. Bill Blaylock Sanborneville, NH Bob McCreadie, ‘the Master of Going Faster,’ Dies at 73 One of the winningest drivers in dirt racing history, he was a folk hero who cursed wildly, drove aggressively and crashed a lot. Listen to this article · 6:12 min Learn more Share full article Bob McCreadie in 1983. Known as Barefoot Bob, he won more than 500 races in his career. He also occasionally broke his back in spectacular wrecks.Credit...via McCreadie family By Michael S. Rosenwald May 23, 2024 Bob McCreadie, who was one of the winningest drivers in dirt racing history and was regularly introduced by announcers as “the master of going faster,” died on May 15 at his home in Watertown, N.Y. He was 73. His son Tim, who is also a dirt racing driver, confirmed the death. He said his father had been ill for several months and was in hospice care. McCreadie won more than 500 races at weekly events and on the touring Super Dirtcar Series circuit, driving dirt-modified stock cars at 150 miles per hour around short, tight-cornered tracks at fairgrounds and speedways along the East Coast. In the course of his 35-year-career, he occasionally broke his back in spectacular wrecks. ADVERTISEMENTSKIP ADVERTISEMENT Dirt racing is not nearly as popular (or as lucrative) as the NASCAR circuit. But to the more than 2,500 fans who typically attend races, the sport is an enduring source of small-town pride and entertainment. Image Bob McCreadie’s son Tim, who is also a driver, stood in front of a mural of his father in 2005.Credit...via Watertown Daily Times McCreadie was dirt racing’s perfect Everyman: Scrawny, bespectacled, with a bushy beard, he chain-smoked, cursed vigorously and hauled his racecars with his own pickup truck instead of the fancy trailers that many of his contemporaries used. In northern New York, where he lived, the news media covered him with roughly the same exuberance with which New York City newspapers covered Babe Ruth in his heyday. The Post-Standard of Syracuse mentioned him more than 1,200 times in his career. How The Times decides who gets an obituary. There is no formula, scoring system or checklist in determining the news value of a life. We investigate, research and ask around before settling on our subjects. If you know of someone who might be a candidate for a Times obituary, please suggest it here. Learn more about our process. “He looked like a country bumpkin,” Ron Hedger, a longtime writer for Speed Sport Insider, said in a phone interview. “The fans identified with him, and they really loved him. There was always a mob of people waiting in line for an autograph.” The dirt racing circuit is stocked with characters known by their kooky nicknames: Danimal, A.J. Slideways, the Mad Russian, the Flying Dairy Farmer, Brett the Corporate Jet. McCreadie was Barefoot Bob. Editors’ PicksWhat E.R. Doctors Want You to Know About Extreme HeatA Manhattan Apartment Full of Salvaged Finds6 Water Workouts to Try This Summer SKIP ADVERTISEMENT How he got the nickname is a subject of some confusion among his fans. Some pegged it to the time he raced a car with such a narrow cockpit that he had to remove a shoe so his feet would fit. Others pointed to his hardscrabble childhood in upstate New York, where he spent summers shoeless and in trouble. As a teenager, he hot-wired cars and sped around Watertown with his buddies, an activity that eventually led to a yearlong visit to a juvenile detention center. He passed the time by reading auto magazines and studying car engines. “Best thing that ever happened to me,” he told The New York Times in 2003. He got a job as a mechanic after his rel

I thought I was recording it, but the quaint and curious aspects of YouTubeTV defeated me. I was involved with watching the recorded Monaco GP, and missed the first 100 laps of Indy. Hoping there's a rebroadcast somewhere. Not quite curious enough to subscribe to one of the rebroadcast recordings. Thank you, Bob Storck in KCMO -- Bob Storck KC MO USA

Fellow Rhers, Can you imagine how many nights a week every week they had to run to win that many victories? “Back in the Day” – Racing historian Ohio’s Wilson “Bill” Davis compiled a list of the top auto racing feature winners through 1945, basically before World War II. Davis’ list, which appeared in the November 9, 1988 issue of National Speed Sport News, showed Chicago midget racer Wally Zale on top with 178 feature wins, followed by Ronnie Householder with 165. Gus Schrader (147 wins), Bill Holmes (146), Bill Schindler (145), Tony Willman (136), Bob Swanson (111), Ray Richards (105), Harry McQuinn (104) and Jimmy Wilburn (101) made up the rest of the “top 10.” Zale won a record 67 midget main events in 1940. Sadly, Zale, along with fellow midget driver Frank Perrone, were killed in a two-train/single car accident in Oak Forest, Ill., in April of 1942. Zale was 36 years old. I believe Bill Davis’ list consists of both “big car” and midget victories. Gene Ingram New Castle, In. -- Gene Ingram List Owner New Castle IN USA