Russ-san
And my parents and I have met a driver by the name of Jimmy Horton, ran in NNC in as Darrell Waltrip's replacement when he broke his leg, ran in the 93 Daytona 500
I heard of him. He had a HORRIFFIC wreck at Talladega in 1993, he flipped over and actually went over the wall and landed well outside the track. You wouldn't have believed that he survived but he walked away from it!
eek Ironically, another driver in the same wreck, Stanley Smith, only took a ho-hum hit to the front end, and he was rushed to the hospital in critical condition to have emergency surgery.
I have an autograph from Richard Petty from 1993. Very great man.