Fantasy NASCAR Racing

in racing.  You see, the Flock Brothers were well know in racing and with Bob’s win in Columbus, Fonty’s win in Birmingham, and Tim’s win in Greensboro,NC; the Flock Brothers had made a clean sweep by winning on the same day.  Columbus Speedway, July 25,1948: Race Day for NASCAR at Columbus.  The green flag is dropped and the race is on, dust flying everywhere.  Red Byron was running hard!  This race today was a 40 lap feature and the point were very important to several drivers.  As the race laps count off and Byron had lead since the 17th lap with challengers on his tail, fans move closer to the cattle fence on the hill to cheer their champion to the finish.  Late in the race; with Red Byron leading, his tire explodes and sends him sailing into the clay bank and barbed wire fence.  The car hit the fence and plowed into the crowd.  As the car hit the barbed wire fence posts became like missiles launching as the car moved through the wire into the crowd.  One of the post hit 7 year old Roy Brannon in the head, 16 others were injured.  Brannon would die less than 24 hours later from his injuries.  Only five months into its first season, NASCAR also suffered it’s first fatalities, as on that same day in Greensboro N.C. driver Bill “Slick” Davis was killed when he flipped his 1937 Chevy several times and died later that night.  Even though the first NASCAR championship was decided at the track in November of 1948, no PR could bring the crowds back.  But NASCAR did bring the Cup division to race at the track in 1951.  This race was 200 circuits around the 1/2 mile track and it saw Tim Flock get the win.  Gober Sosebee was second and Herb Thomas third.  The track had only lasted only a few years.  The farm, the track was built on in 1948, is now a high-end sub division.  Full of houses and families that probably have no idea that NASCAR Races with early (Hall of Fame Drivers) once raced through their yards.