The Top 11 Greatest Racing Rivalries

[realsteelfreak]

Re: The Top 11 Greatest Racing Rivalries

Ok Ron my last line was Buick ,but mostly I was talking Cup series but it was there hard to get past those 430 or 455 ci engines.

[Ron Ward]

Re: The Top 11 Greatest Racing Rivalries

I think you missed one, guys. This one is so painfully obvious to me.


Buick GS VS Hemi GTX shootout


How many years has this rivalry been stirring now? It always raises the hackles of ANY Buick or Mopar fans. Gawd... I remember this from the old Cars Illustrated days...



Ron

[1988montecarloss]

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richard petty -bobby allison 1972 n wilkesboro
dale earnhardt vs geoff bodine
dale earnhardt vs bill elliott
dale earnhardt vs tim richmond
it could go on and on - earnhardt hated everybody

he really didnt hate anybody. him and tim richmond were actually more friends than anything else

[realsteelfreak]

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Big E and Richmond wasnt as much as a rivalry as the other guys, I think if there was one guy that Dale knew would take it to him ,it would be Tim. Big E respected Tim more than feared him, or a rivlary with him. Richmond could get as much or more out of a car as E could, and he knew it. Anybody that had been out most of the year and could come back from 2 laps down and only 3rd and 4th gear at Pocono and win has my respect.
I know only 2 guys that would bounce the car off the wall at Charlotte during qualifying to get more speed and thats Earnhardt and Richmond.
How about Kulwicki vs the factory backed mega buck cars,at the time the only driver with a eng degree,and it showed.
How about Buick vs everybody else,Ford cried foul, illegal heads.

[cobra]

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mustang already won. they didn't have to discontinue it for a few years because of very low sales.

[SpiderGearsMan]

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richard petty -bobby allison 1972 n wilkesboro
dale earnhardt vs geoff bodine
dale earnhardt vs bill elliott
dale earnhardt vs tim richmond
it could go on and on - earnhardt hated everybody

[mustang13]

Re: The Top 11 Greatest Racing Rivalries

Number 7 was just a view of the future for stock car racing. Too bad. The Mustang 5.0 vs. Buick GN wars at E-town in the late Eighties were good. ;D ;D ;D

[Brian Lohnes]

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Good idea Doug. It's on the list.

I wrote a deal on this subject back in 2004. When I met Jim Oddy for the first time he said, "You're the guy that wrote the story that's on my office wall." After regaining consciousness, we yapped about the gasser stuff for an hour or two.

It's VERY fun stuff.

Brian

[ls7gto]

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"Big John" Mazmanian and Stone-Woods-Cook
Brian how about spreading the gospel on this one, along with the cam grinders wars

[min301]

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What about Michael Schumacher vs Mika Haikkonen?

2 straight years, it was these two. Everyone else was fighting for 3rd place.

[ls7gto]

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WJ and Glidden, WJ and Geofrion, WJ and Jeggie, WJ and Anderson , well WJ and whoever is in the other lane. ;D

[tiresmoke!]

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Petty and Pearson. nuff said.

right here...I still don't think they like each other.

rivalries....brings attention to the sport.

[oldrustycars]

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Number 12....me vs. my pathetic attempt at wrenching a front motor dragster in 1985. We broke everything but the trailer. Thank God my first son was born and I had an excuse to quit.

[ls7gto]

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Petty and Pearson. nuff said.

[Scott Liggett]

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DW vs Earnhardt was on the short list. I wish I could have been in the garage for some of those heated "conversations".

You have to give credit to both of them, because the respect they had for each other was obvious in later years.

Most of those arguments was about how to do an interview. Earnhardt really didn't like DW's comic approach. He thought it made drivers look like clowns.