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[Ldawg]

Don't care what Boomer Sooner sez Kyle Busch is fuckin' PHENOMENAL He will surpass Big E in total wins .... regular BARNEY OLDFIELD !!

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Don't care what Boomer Sooner sez Kyle Busch is fuckin' PHENOMENAL He will surpass Big E in total wins .... regular BARNEY OLDFIELD !!

The kid can flat out DRIVE BROUTHA

Congrats on your win!!!

[Ldawg]

For you young Bucks :


Barney Oldfield Auto racer --

Oldfield was lent a gasoline-powered bicycle to race at Salt Lake City, which led to a meeting with Henry Ford. Ford had readied two automobiles for racing, and he asked Oldfield if he would like to test one at Ford's Grosse Pointe track. Oldfield agreed and traveled to Michigan for the trial, but neither car would start. In spite of the fact that Oldfield had still never driven an automobile, he and a partner purchased both test vehicles when Ford offered to sell them for $800. One of those first vehicles was the famous "No. 999" which debuted in October, 1902 at the Manufacturer's Challenge Cup. That year, Oldfield and the "999" set a one-mile (1.6 km) record at the Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York, covering the distance in 55.54 seconds.[2] The car can be found today at the Henry Ford Museum in Greenfield Village.

Oldfield agreed to drive against the current champion Alexander Winton. Oldfield was rumored to have learned how to operate the controls of that car the morning of the event.[3] Oldfield won by a half mile in the five mile (8 km) race. He slid through the corners like a motorcycle racer did instead of braking. It was a great victory for Ford and led both Barney Oldfield and Ford to become household names.

On Memorial Day weekend in New York in 1903, Oldfield became the first driver to run a mile track in one minute flat or 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). Two months later, he drove a mile in 55.8 seconds, and Winton hired Oldfield and agreed to supply free cars in addition to his salary. Oldfield, with his agent Will Pickens, crisscrossed the United States in a series of timed runs and match races, where he earned a reputation as a showman. One year he competed at twenty tracks in 18 weeks while driving for Peerless, and won sixteen straight match races. He frequently raced in a three event matches, and won the first part by a nose, lost the second, before he won the third.

Oldfield made a fine showing at the opening of the Indianapolis Speedway (August 19-21, 1909), in a Mercedes.[4]

He bought a Benz, and raised his speed in 1910 to 70.159 mph (112.910 km/h) in his "Blitzen Benz". Later that year he drove to 131.25 mph (211.23 km/h). He used the car to break the existing mile, two mile (3 km), and kilometer records at the Daytona Beach Road Course at Ormond, Florida. He was able to charge $4000 U.S. dollars for each appearance after that.[1]


Suspension & Later Career
Oldfield was suspended by the AAA for his "outlaw" racing activities and was unable to race at sanctioned events for much of the prime of his career. Speed records, match races and exhibitions made up most of Oldfield's career. He put on at least 35 shows in 1914 with the aviator Lincoln Beachey. Oldfield raced his Fiat car against Beachey's aircraft.

He was reinstated and he competed in the 1914 and 1916 Indianapolis 500, finishing fifth in each attempt but becoming the first person in Indianapolis history to run a 100 mile per hour lap. His 1914 Indy finish was in an Indianapolis-built Stutz, making him the highest finishing driver in an American car in a race dominated by Europeans. Oldfield used the same car in his victory at the Los Angeles to Phoenix off-road race in November 1914.[5] Oldfield also finished second in two major road races that year, the Vanderbilt Cup and the Corona 300. In 1915 he won the Venice, California 300 road race.

His name recognition also helped establish Firestone's reputation with the advertising slogan, "'Firestone Tires are my only life insurance,' says Barney Oldfield, world's greatest driver."[6]

In June 1917 he used his Golden Submarine to beat fellow racing legend Ralph DePalma in a series of 10 to 25-mile (40 km) match races at Milwaukee. He retired from racing in 1918, but he continued to tour and make movies.

[Stroker71]

GL Dawg thanks for the history...pretty interesting.