What I’d Do Differently: Humpy Wheeler

C/D: Do today’s NASCAR drivers have different talents than those of earlier generations?

HW: I don’t know if  Dale Earnhardt [Sr.] could have even gotten a ride today. When he was in his embryonic stage of Cup racing, he looked like something the cat drug in. He had stringy hair, he didn’t know how to dress, he didn’t know how to talk and was mean as hell, and he was constantly hitting something. Junior Johnson had a prison record. What kind of sponsor is going to hook up with him? Today, you’ve got to have the looks, you’ve got to have the demeanor, you have to have the physique. You have to have all those things you didn’t have to have in those days. READ MORE ››

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