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NASCAR Hall of Fame inducts Red Farmer
The Alabama Gang driver got to share 75 years of racing highlights during his acceptance speech on Friday night.
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Red Farmer needed to run through almost 75 years of racing in 20 minutes on Friday night. Fortunately, Farmer always has been fast. That’s one reason he was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
A founding member of racing’s Alabama Gang, Farmer went into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a member of the Class of 2021, with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Mike Stefanik. The three drivers were elected on June 16, 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic delayed their enshrinement until Friday night.
Red's car number was F-97
Back in the 50's my best friend's Mother and Father would take us to Midfield to Dixie Speedway and boy was that a treat. Bobby and Donnie Allison along with Red, Nero Steptoe(sp), Bunkie Blackburn, and Friday Hassler along with so many other drivers.
Great times.
I can still smell the fumes and the rubber.