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Racing Superstitions: Peanuts, Green Cars, and the Ghosts of Speed · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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Breakfix's History of Motorsports series is brought to you in part
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by the International Motor Racing Research Center, as well as the
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Society of Automotive Historians, the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of
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Commerce, and the Argettsinger family.
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Auto Racing Superstitions and Bizarre Events by Alan Eiselhardt.
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Superstitions, both good and evil, common and rare, affect all classes of people
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and their place in life and have been passed along generation after generation.
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Auto racing, from its very beginning, is not immune from superstitions, many
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of which can be described as bizarre and are present in today's auto racing world.
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Alan Eiselhard is a retired mechanical designer of test equipment for Eastman
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Kodak Company and has enjoyed the automobile world in several capacities.
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He is a big super modified race fan, collector of British sports cars,
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Serious but non professional race photographer, past crew member on an
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SCCA race team, race memorabilia and petroliana collector, retired road
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rallyist, and a supporter of the IMRRC.
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Kind of an interesting one.
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Auto racing superstitions and bizarre events.
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Alan Isselhard, your program.
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Just take it away.
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Good morning, everyone.
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I'm going to be talking about superstitions, bizarre events, good
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and bad luck, and some rituals.
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And I'd like to begin by sharing a brief dictionary definition
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of the word superstition.
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Superstition, per Webster Dictionary.
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Beliefs or practices resulting from ignorance, fear of the
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unknown, trust in magic, or chance.
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Now if I were to go around the room and ask everyone in the room to tell me
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what racing superstition they hear most often, and I guess it's Green race cars,
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or possibly it could be the number 13.
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You don't want number 13 on your race car.
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And the third choice is peanuts.
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And I, I wondered where did these superstitions develop?
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How did they happen?
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So I started to do a little bit of research on those three items.
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Racing's green superstition, I believe, may have started right here.
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In Central New York at the Syracuse Fairgrounds on the
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One Mile Dirt Oval Racetrack.
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On September 16, 1911, a huge crowd of spectators witnessed one of the worst
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auto racing accidents in American history.
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It occurred at the Syracuse Fairgrounds when 11 race fans were killed.
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And ten others were injured when driver Lee Oldfield, his green NAX
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race car, number 11, blew a tire during the race and careened into the Turn
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2 infield and plowed through a light fence into a group of spectators.
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Oldfield was thrown from the car, but only received minor injuries.
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Oldfield later said he believed That he was the source of
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green superstitions and racing.
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If the Syracuse wreck was considered the beginning of green car superstitions,
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it got stronger in later years.
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Gaston Chevrolet, a race driver and younger brother of Chevrolet motor car
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company, co founder Lewis Chevrolet, competed in a race on November
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25th, 1920 at the Beverly Hills Speedway, a board track in California.
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Gaston Chevrolet lost his life when his green Frontenac race car crashed into
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the Duesenberg driven by Eddie O'Donnell and his riding mechanic, Lyle Jowles.
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All three people lost their lives in that accident.
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Scant months earlier, Chevrolet had won the Indianapolis
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500 in that very same car.
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By the way, it's interesting to note that the color green was very much an evidence.
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Early at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, for many years, most
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of the seats were painted green.
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The original shop garage doors were painted green and white.
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And the races, of course, were started with a, uh, green flag, green and racing
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peaked between the 1920s and the, uh, 1950s where the superstition really
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became prominent NASCAR's, Joe Werley was superstitious of everything, particularly
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the color green and the number 13.
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Joe Weatherly once refused to start a NASCAR race because he qualified 13th.
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Until he encouraged the promoter he qualified in 12A position.
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They used to carry his race car in the back of a open flatbed trailer.
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Joe and his team owner, Bud Moore, were eating inside a little green mom
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and pop roadside restaurant when a green vehicle backed into the race car,
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leaving a little green paint on it.
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Bud said, we'll paint over it.
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Joe said, no, you're not going to do that, you're going to grind that out.
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So he said, if you paint over it, it's still there.
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Weatherly was killed in 1964 at Riverside, California, with
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two 50 bills in a shirt pocket.
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The superstition now exists that 50 bills should be avoided
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at racetracks on race days.
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Many people remember Indy driver Roberto Guerrero winning the pole position for
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the 1992 Indy 500 and then spinning his green Lola Buick on the second parade
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lap just before the start, taking himself out of the race and somewhat embarrassed.
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In 1993, Jeff Andretti drove the same car, again in green livery, and crashed.
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Guerrero drove the exact same car in 1994, again sporting a green
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livery, crashed, and finished last.
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The green superstition hung around until the 1980s when racing sponsors
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products were green oriented and green non superstitious money was
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welcomed by the race teams and tracks.
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This is a car that raced at Oswego Speedway this summer.
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It's a NASCAR Whelan asphalt modified car number 59 driven by Andy Jankowiak.
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I don't think I've seen a greener car anywhere.
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On a racetrack, and I stopped and introduced myself and he got a kick out of
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what I was trying to do with accumulating information for this talk, but when
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you see a pack of cars go around at the beginning of a race, and you see a green
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car like this, it stands out very easily.
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Triskaidekaphobia.
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That is fear of the number 13.
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Some drivers are so nervous about the number 13 that they are
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reluctant to use multiples of 13, like number 26, 39, and so forth.
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They're considered unlucky by some teams.
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Widespread circle track superstition was never having a car number
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that could be read upside down.
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According to superstition, the five luckiest numbers are 3, 77.
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However, these numbers may not be considered lucky by all cultures.
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In Italy, the number 17 is considered unlucky.
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In China and Japan, number 4 is supposedly unlucky.
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And they say number four in Chinese sounds very similar to the word death.
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The use of the number 13 on a race car from 1926 Indy to 2002 was
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officially disallowed by the rules.
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Danica Patrick, she raced with the car number 13 and
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she didn't mind green either.
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Because her sponsor, the GoDaddy computer people, that's their color.
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And if they're paying the bill, they're gonna see that color on
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the car and her driver's suit.
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As a seven time world champion, most people assume that Michael Schumacher
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was a driver certain of his skills, but he too believed in a few superstitions.
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The first and most well known of these was his penchant for odd race car numbers.
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This came to the fore in 2010 when he returned to Formula
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One racing with Mercedes.
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Initially, he was allotted the number four with teammate Nico
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Rosberg getting the number three.
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Schumacher immediately asked for the numbers to be switched.
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It was initially thought that this was part of the mind games he was known to
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play to gain advantage over Rosberg, but it turned out to be just a superstition.
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Schumacher had won all seven of his world championships while
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driving a car with an odd number.
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Another quirk he had was to carry an amulet, a good luck charm, with
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him during the races that had the initials of his family members.
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Peanuts!
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Peanuts are known to be superstitious at auto races.
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Actually, it's not the peanut itself that's the problem.
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It's really peanut shells that are problematic.
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The superstitious issue started when the pit area at some track was behind the
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grandstands, maybe to be in the shade.
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And then when spectators broke their peanuts, they tossed the
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shells underneath the stands.
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Some of them went in the carburetors.
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That caused major engine failures.
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Drivers and crew repulsed peanuts for their unlucky reputation, and
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at some tracks, deliberately refused selling peanuts at concession stands.
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In years past, peanuts were not sold at the Indy 500 concession stands
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due to their superstitious notoriety.
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Drivers just hated to see peanut shells around their cars, and
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they caused major problems.
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Hard to believe, but there were competitors that deliberately scattered
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peanuts around their competitors just to shake them up before the race.
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On September 27th, 1937, AAA sanctioned a 100 mile championship
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race held in Nashville, Tennessee.
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A young mechanic, Mack, was walking through the pit area eating peanuts.
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and ridiculing his friend about how anyone could fall prey
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to the foolish superstition surrounding peanuts in racing.
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Mack sought to prove how outrageous this peanut fallacy was and deliberately
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broke peanut shells over the first five race cars in line for the feature race.
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Ted Horn was among them, as well as Duke Nalon, Howdy Cox,
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Vern Orendoff, and Chet Gardner.
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Howdy Cox was leading the race, as Nalon attempted to overtake him, but
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having extreme difficulty seeing through the heavy dust on the back straight.
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Suddenly, a tremendous crash occurred and spectators witnessed
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racers flipping end over end.
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This horrible debacle left Ted Horn in critical condition.
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His race car was destroyed.
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Nalon and Orendeff were seriously injured, Gardner slightly hurt, and
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Howdy Cox, the leader, was dead.
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The five cars sprinkled with peanut shells were the five cars in this dreadful crash.
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Peanut superstition was magnified exponentially after this ghastly incident.
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NASCAR's Robert Yates found out that peanuts were sold from a vending machine
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in his shop, and upon discovering this, had the peanuts removed.
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Beginning with the first Indy 500 in 1911 and until 1957, a panoramic photo was
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taken of all drivers and officials on the main straightaway just before the 500.
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The camera and photographer were located on the back of a flatbed farm truck.
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Superstitious drivers not wanting to be photographed just before the
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start of the race simply didn't line up and pose for the photo and
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weren't included by their own choice.
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Some drivers were superstitious about having their photo taken just
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prior to a race because many thought so often those photos were included
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in the newspaper the next day with the caption, last photo taken of.
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Not shaving before a race is still a big superstition today, a common ritual.
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This superstition started about 1936 when sprint car driver George Doc McKenzie
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was killed in a crash just after shaving his beard before a race on August
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23, 1936 at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Bobby Isaac, 1972 NASCAR champ, dropped out of the 1973 Talladega 500 mid
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race in an impulsive decision which surprised his pit crew and team owner.
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He suddenly pulled into the pits, got out of the race car, and
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that was it for him for the day.
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When questioned why he dropped out, Isaac said, he heard a voice that told
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him to quit racing or he would die.
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He did not participate in any further 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup races after Talladega.
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The late Davy Ellison claimed he would be awakened by strange noises when
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staying overnight at the Talladega track.
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Also on the weekend of a race, Ellison would watch a movie.
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If he ran well that weekend, the same movie would be watched the next weekend.
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And of course, Ellison was killed at Talladega in the crash of a
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helicopter that he was piloting.
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Giuseppe Farina was the winner of the first Formula One World Championship race
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in 1950 for Alfa Romeo at Silverstone.
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Farina had a medallion of the Madonna della Conciliata, which he always wore,
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to the extent that when he forgot it at the Dutch Grand Prix in 1953, he dashed
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off to the hotel so he could get it and nearly missed the start of the race.
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John Force.
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Would not climb into his Castrol racer without at least one St.
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Christopher medal, and sometimes two.
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And he isn't the only driver to carry a St.
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Christopher medal during a race.
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Formula One world champ driver, Alan Jones, won the Formula One title
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in Canada, but only after the last minute delivery of his special luck
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charm, a pair of red underpants.
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Jones admitted being superstitious and felt uneasy because he
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thought he had lost them.
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He contacted his wife in England, she found them, and sent them
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to Canada by Special Express.
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Retired driver, David Cuthard, always steps into his race
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car with his right foot first.
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From the left side of the car.
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Cotard also felt he owned a pair of lucky underpants, which he wore in every race.
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After crashing heavily once, his driver's suit and underpants needed
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to be removed by cutting them off.
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When his mother found out, he wore five year old, well used underwear with holes.
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She forbade him to continue doing this.
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He complied, but he still took the old underwear with him
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to the races for good luck.
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Retired driver from Italy, Stefano Modena, had a strange superstition.
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If he was in the race car and anyone touched him before leaving the pits
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to start a race, he would get out of the car and then get back in.
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Alberto Ascari, a two time 1950 world champion, had a favorite blue helmet,
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which he would not allow anyone to touch.
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He made an exception after his crash at Monte Carlo in 1955,
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tossing him into the harbor.
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His helmet needed repair and was in the shop when, at Monza, Ascari
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was killed when testing a car wearing his friend Ferrari teammate
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Eugenio Castelletti's white helmet.
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After Jim Clark had two spins, uh, at Indy in 1996, he said the helmet he was wearing
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was bad luck and he disposed of it.
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Retired superstitious Formula One driver Alexander Wurst said he
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wouldn't sleep in a hotel room with his feet facing the door.
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He also wore different colored racing shoes on each foot.
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Red on the left, blue on the right, for good luck.
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Karl Kieckhafer, a 1950s two time NASCAR championship car owner and Mercury's
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boat motor manufacturer, wouldn't let his drivers or crew sleep with
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their spouses the night before a race.
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Shaking hands just before a race is another superstition.
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This is among the most common of superstitions, by shaking hands
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or not shaking hands, I'm not sure which is more superstitious.
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I've read that A.
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J.
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Foyt always wrapped a rubber band around his gear shift lever.
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He once said, it's a habit I've had for nearly 50 years,
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in both race and street cars.
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While I don't consider myself superstition, I figure it doesn't hurt.
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Most drivers visit Troth, just prior to the race.
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One southern driver admits always using the urinal farthest to the left.
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as it represents the pole position.
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If that urinal isn't available, he waits till it's free.
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Jacques Villeneuve, a retired Formula One driver, wouldn't remove his helmet when
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relieving himself just before a race.
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Many drivers have superstitions about who buckles them into a race car.
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In his book, My Speed Was Life, the famous German race manager for the Mercedes
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Grand Prix team from 1926 to 1955, Alfred Neubauer recalled, I've known very few
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race drivers who did not suffer from superstition in one form or another.
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Sterling Moss once explained, Most of the drivers I know are pretty superstitious.
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Maybe their reasons are the same as mine, that it costs nothing,
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and therefore you might just as well be superstitious as not.
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I always carried a gold horseshoe on a chain around my neck, given to me by my
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sister, and I always tried to wear it the right way up to keep the good luck in it.
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Tazio Nuvolari wore a golden tortoise charm with the letter N on its
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back, a present from the famous Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio.
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Following an Irish superstition, Dale Earnhardt Sr.
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will leave a building walking out the same door he walked in.
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Wessa Miller was a handicapped child who loved watching NASCAR on TV.
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She wanted to meet Dale Earnhardt Sr.
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and through a Make A Wish Foundation, she attended the 1998 Daytona 500.
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And met Earnhardt.
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Miller had a special gift for Earnhardt and she believed that it
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would help give him a little luck.
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The gift was a penny that she had rubbed for good luck.
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Following their meeting, Earnhardt found some glue and glued the penny
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to the dashboard of his race car.
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He won the Daytona 500 that day.
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Earnhardt tried to keep the penny, but the penny ultimately stayed with the
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race car where it remains to this day in the Richard Childress Racing Museum.
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Ted Horn was one of the most obsessively superstitious drivers.
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Horn would not allow race fans to pose with him for a photo before the race.
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Horne felt announcing your retirement as a driver before actually doing
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it was also one of the taboos.
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Horne admitted that if he found money at a track, it accompanied him in the race car.
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He found a dime at Arlington, Texas and put it in a shoe before the race started.
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He won the race and the championship that day.
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When he was killed at Duquesne, Illinois in 1948, a dime
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was found in his left boot.
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Ted Horne's Indianapolis 500 record is unequaled for consistency.
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He finished fourth, or better, in nine straight Indy 500 races beginning
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in 1936, but never won the 500.
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Ted Horn and fellow driver Bill Holland were good friends.
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Holland proceeded to win the 1949 Indianapolis 500, and following victory,
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Holland disclosed that he carried with him during the race the exact same
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10 cent piece Ted Horn carried with him when he was killed at Duquesne.
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Ted Horn's car, by the way, it broke a right front spindle.
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The car flipped and he was, he died from injuries.
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Ted Horn ignored numerous superstitions the day he was killed.
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That morning, his wife noted the dress she expected to wear was
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soiled, and her other dress was green.
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Horn accepted her wearing the green dress.
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Also unusual was the fact that she and their child parked in the
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pit area next to his race car.
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Another custom considered unlucky.
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He reportedly shaved that morning.
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Again, challenging superstition.
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One of the most bizarre racing stories relates to the late Formula One driver,
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Albert François Sivert, who won his first ever Grand Prix at Watkins Glen in 1971.
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Sivert, a French racing driver who was killed at Watkins Glen on October 6th.
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1973, driving a Torell Cosworth Ford, was trying to qualify for the Grand
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Prix that year, and he was a teammate of world championship driver Jackie Stewart.
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Sivert had a long time relationship with an attractive woman by
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the name of Nanou Van Melderen.
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Five years to her meeting, Sivert, the young woman went with her
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mother to see a clairvoyant, the mother being the one seeking advice.
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But during this meeting, the foreteller told Nanoo that she would meet a
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young man with blue eyes near the sea.
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In 1964, she met blue eyed Sivert at Saint Tropez in the Caribbean.
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Two years later, Nanoo decided to pay the clairvoyant another visit,
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seeking advice about her future.
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She brought with her a photo of Sivert, but didn't tell the
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clairvoyant anything about him.
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The seer studied this photo for a long time and said he was a person that had
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an association with a strange machine.
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Nanoo told the clairvoyant that Sivert wanted to be a race driver.
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The clairvoyant told the young woman that Sivert would have a
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brilliant career in racing, but his success would come between them.
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She commenced to tell Nanoo that the handsome race driver would
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not live to see his 30th birthday.
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Later that evening, Nanoo told Sivert about this exchange.
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Sivert later insisted on seeing the old clairvoyant woman.
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Which he did.
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The clairvoyant told Severt, mostly what she'd already spelled out, and
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predicted the same thing about his future.
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That Francois would not see the beginning of his 30th year.
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Of course, you know what happened, right over here on the S's.
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After Severt was killed, Danu again visited the clairvoyant,
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and again took a photo of Severt for her to see, except that this
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photo was Severt as a young child.
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After studying the photo for a long time, she made this shocking statement.
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He is dead.
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Just as the clairvoyant predicted, Severit left this world before his 30th birthday.
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Well that's the end of my comments.
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If anybody has a question or a comment, now is the time.
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I thought it was great, Alan.
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A lot of things I had not aware of.
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Okay, hang on.
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You're drawing from so many different places.
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How did you go about researching this topic and locating
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information on this theme?
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I was lucky to have several people give me stuff because I had appealed for that.
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I had one bitter disappointment though.
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I copied flyers asking race drivers to help me with this.
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And I passed out dozens of these at Oswego Speedway and I didn't
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get one call from a race driver.
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What they're paying attention to in their life.
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But that's, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But anyway, as far as researching the material, I called old magazines.
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In some cases, auto racing books in the index said superstition and it
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would direct you right to the page.
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The internet was a big help, of course.
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And there were a number of articles written about superstitions.
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You bring up the superstition about announcing retirement.
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Before actually retiring and didn't Stewart before that race, cause it
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was supposed to be his hundredth race, announce his retirement
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from the sport before Sever died.
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Oh, he didn't.
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That's right.
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I couldn't remember exactly what it was, but it's, it's an interesting
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thought that Stewart was going to retire and then Severe died.
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Right.
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Stewart, Stewart was supposed to retire on the weekend that Severe got killed here.
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It was going to be his 100th Formula One race.
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Of course, he never got to drive that 100th race because the
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Torell team pulled out of the weekend after the death of Severe.
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This is terrific stuff.
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I'll have to turn my back to you.
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Maybe it's a superstition, I don't know.
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I'm not going there.
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So it's good to see you.
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Do you think drivers are more superstitious than
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other athletes, and how come?
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I understand that baseball players are also very superstitious,
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and I can't say any other sport, because I really don't pay too much
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attention to other than auto racing.
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Women were not allowed in the pits in oval racing up till...
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Not all that long ago, was there a superstition about women?
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Yeah, there was.
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That's why they weren't allowed into the pits.
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One year, many years ago, I went to Oswego with my wife.
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I said, well, I'll treat you to a pit pass and we'll get there a little
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early and we can walk in the pits and see the cars and drivers close up.
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She went to where the pit passes are sold, which I'm sure you know about.
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And they kind of laughed and said, we're not selling you a
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pit pass because you're a woman.
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Well, she didn't like that one bit.
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There was a police officer at the track that day, and she went right over to him,
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and she said, They won't sell me a pit pass, and I think that's discriminatory.
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And this police officer didn't want to hear that at all,
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but it didn't do any good.
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But I think he did go ask somebody, and the excuse that was given was,
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There's no ladies room in the pits.
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The, uh, thing with the photograph before the race, I read somewhere that it goes
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to the Red Baron or something like that.
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He had his photograph taken before his last mission where he was shot down.
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And that might have had something to do with not having your photograph taken
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before a race and stuff like that.
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And the one with the green with the car.
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I read somewhere one time that someone would say it was started because some
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of the tracks like, say, Terre Haute or Williams Grove or something like
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that, they're all like, they had green infield and drivers would be going and
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they'd see green out of the side of their eye, figuring it was the grass,
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but it was a green car and collided with that car or something like that.
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So I don't know how true that all is, but could happen.
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I guess anybody else?
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Last chance.
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Well, by the way, let me warn you something.
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When you go out of this building tonight, There's a cracked sidewalk.
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Don't step on that crack.
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Thank you, Alan.
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