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CBS brought us the Daytona 500 every February and we then scrambled to follow NASCAR racing each week.
ESPN in it's infancy was the driving force behind bringing motorsports to network television.
ESPN was launched in September of 1979. A year later, they arrived at the Moody Mile to tape the controversial 1980 Schaefer 200 with Gary Balough's ground effects "Batmobile".
Geoff Bodine and others then went back to their garages and modified their entries to compete with Balough's car. I (Lincoln) remember the controversy and excitement that was their in Syracuse. The rumors of not letting him run the car and then the evidence in the following days that everyone was making changes to compete and that we were going to witness this historic event. I also seem to remember it snowed. Maybe not that year but many years were that cold and we did see snow.
Hotrod found these treasures on YouTube, and wanted to do something with them. This is what we came up with, thanks to Michael McIntyre (Racermac1988 on YouTube).
Check out his other video uploads. A real race nut (I mean that in a nice way).
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These YouTube contributions were from Michael McIntyre, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio currently residing in Fort Wayne, Indiana where he is attending the Indiana Institute of Technology studying Communications. His goals are to obtain his degree, and hopefully go into the field of sports (preferably motorsports) broadcasting. He is a local track videographer at places like Anderson (IN), Angola Motor Speedway (IN), Winchester (IN), and several others. He is also the network director/lead announcer for the Indiana Tech Sports Network which provides a web broadcast for the school's sporting events. He enjoys basically all sports, bowling, and of course anything car related.
Thanks Michael. I know our visitors appreciate your efforts.
Linc