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[Michael Ferner]

Yesterday, 1990 Knoxville Nationals winner Bobby Allen started his 80th year on this planet. Although four years younger than Mario Andretti (and, incidentally, having retired from active competition at the same age), they both started racing the same year, in 1959, and two years later, when Phil Hill became the first US American to win a World Championship in auto racing, Bobby certainly looked the better bet to follow in his footsteps. Fate, however, decided otherwise, and soon their career paths crossed over each other, with Bobby ending up where Mario had started: on the weekly dirt track circuit.

 

Celebrating the career of the first driver to reach the milestone of 2,000 entries in my data base, I was going to irregularly post in this thread all of those, and a detailed look into his fascinating career. However, I still don't feel much like contributing substance to this forum ever again after recent events, so it's probably going to be tumbleweeds instead. Unless, of course, somebody else will step in? Feel free.

[Collombin]

I still don't feel much like contributing substance to this forum ever again after recent events

🙁 What's happened?

[Jim Thurman]

However, I still don't feel much like contributing substance to this forum ever again after recent events, so it's probably going to be tumbleweeds instead. Unless, of course, somebody else will step in? Feel free.

I'd love to see your salute to "Scruffy." What recent events? Feel free to PM or e-mail me, Michael.

 

Sadly, I've come to pretty much the same feelings about most places on the internet. Posting detailed, obscure history seems irrelevant to pointless 

[Michael Ferner]

We're not supposed to discuss forum moderation in public, and I'm playing by the rules even if they don't.

 

I'll be around and posting on other forums, just no longer here.

[68targa]

Michael Ferner, on 29 Dec 2022 - 20:36, said:

However, I still don't feel much like contributing substance to this forum ever again after recent events, so it's probably going to be tumbleweeds instead. Unless, of course, somebody else will step in? Feel free.

 

I am sorry to hear this and hope that we may still read your words again. The knowledge base that you have with your area of expertise is valuable to all and I for one appreciate it even if I don't contribute to it.

 

 

Sadly, I've come to pretty much the same feelings about most places on the internet. Posting detailed, obscure history seems irrelevant to pointless 

The internet can be a cold and souless place but there are gems to be had.  You may not get much feedback from posts you make but that does not mean that there are no readers out there who avidly read and absorb material - and the more detailed and obscure the better.  Maybe irrelevent to some but not to all.  I have my own obscure paths of history that I follow, mere pinpicks of history, and forums such as this help enormously.

 

 

Chris

[70JesperOH]

Month ago I decided to do a season-by-season point scoring tables of the 1950-1960 races that included the Indy 500, the World Drivers Championship and, what Michael Ferner has referred to as the "Big Car" Championship. To get a nuanced picture of who scored the 8 points as winner of the annual Indy 500 race compared to the rest of the Grand Prix season. For some reason I found two sites that, combined, satisfied my need for detail, but also deterred any further investigation. US circle track racing are just from another planet compared to my much more familiar european racing, so keep it up. I'm gonna get back to my original quest of investigating those 11 years of Indy Car racing. But I'm reading what you guys write, but having next to nothing to add, I don't. The "likes" seems too much like Facebook, so I prefer not to use it.

 

Jesper