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Topic: Billy Robison In The Sonner #47 And 2009 Interview
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January 07, 2011 at
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Billy Robison in 1981 from Topeka, KS aboard a now legendary Iowa sprinter. The Gil Sonner #47. Gil & Don Sonner have had sprint cars since the early 1971 era.
Tony Wheeler contributed this photo to RFTP
2009 Billy Robison interview http://www.examiner.com/dirt-track-racing-in-wichita/interview-with-billy-robison
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January 07, 2011 at
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Editors Note: I was thinking wings became mandatory after Gary Scott was killed at Knoxville. Gary was killed in 1982. Did the WoO run the wings when they ran Knoxville in 81?
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January 09, 2011 at
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Posted By: Racing From The Past on January 07 2011 at 05:38:56 PM
Editors Note: I was thinking wings became mandatory after Gary Scott was killed at Knoxville. Gary was killed in 1982. Did the WoO run the wings when they ran Knoxville in 81?
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WINGS WERE ON IN 1981.....
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January 09, 2011 at
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Maybe it was the Roger Larson & Darrell Dawley crash that started the wings at Knoxville. I remember Gary Scott was a big prominent of the wings.
Photos of Roger & Darrell at this site: http://www.hoseheadforums.com/forum.cfm?ThreadID=31333
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January 09, 2011 at
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Posted By: Racing From The Past on January 09 2011 at 11:17:39 AM
Maybe it was the Roger Larson & Darrell Dawley crash that started the wings at Knoxville. I remember Gary Scott was a big prominent of the wings.
Photos of Roger & Darrell at this site: http://www.hoseheadforums.com/forum.cfm?ThreadID=31333
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Bob Mays in his book says that the wing were started after Gary Scott's death in 1982 at Knoxville. Doug Wolfgang in his book has a chapter about the Darrell Dawley and Roger Lawson wreck. He was there that night and was just going to watch but a driver go hit by a rock and his owner wanted Doug to drive the car in the feature. He had to start at the back and the start took 3 times and it was very ragged,he was the first person to Darrell and saw that he didn,t make and then helped a friend take off Roger's Helmut and new that he was in bad shape. He got back in the car and said " I drove that SOB for all that it had " he finished 2nd and thought with another lap he had a chance to win, very interesting. Doug's description is very morbid
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January 09, 2011 at
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Posted By: Bkcr on January 09 2011 at 12:49:44 PM
Bob Mays in his book says that the wing were started after Gary Scott's death in 1982 at Knoxville. Doug Wolfgang in his book has a chapter about the Darrell Dawley and Roger Lawson wreck. He was there that night and was just going to watch but a driver go hit by a rock and his owner wanted Doug to drive the car in the feature. He had to start at the back and the start took 3 times and it was very ragged,he was the first person to Darrell and saw that he didn,t make and then helped a friend take off Roger's Helmut and new that he was in bad shape. He got back in the car and said " I drove that SOB for all that it had " he finished 2nd and thought with another lap he had a chance to win, very interesting. Doug's description is very morbid
Ray
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Going strictly from memory here, often when the "Outlaws" ran Knoxville, they ran wings ('81 Nationals), but it wasn't until Scotts death in '82 that Knoxville made them manditory for all weekly shows after much pleading by many top local teams.
I was there the night of the Dawley/Larson accident as well, which was in '79. It was a tragic season. Wolfie tells it like it was.
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