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Just Good Old Boys

Fireball Roberts and Fred Lorenzen were rivals, even when they raced Fords together on the Moody team beginning with the 1963 season. Before that, they were dangerous when they got close to one another on the racetrack, as they often did, Roberts in his gold Pontiac and Lorenzen in a black Ford. In 1962 at Martinsville, Virginia, the two drivers crashed. Here are two versions of what happened. Lorenzen: "I was running good, but I wasn't thinking. Sometimes I'd lose my head and Moody couldn't get to me that day. I was still a little cocky, I suppose, and I felt that I was running so much faster than Fireball that, Move, boy. I'm coming through. Because I couldn't go around. It was too hard at Martinsville. But He wouldn't move, so I rapped him in the bumper a little bit." Ford Factory representative Jacque Passino: "Lorenzen kept tapping him, tapping.....

America 1960-1969: Sports article

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