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  5 Awesome, but lesser-known Racing stories (Part 5) By: Brian Cotnoir Here we are again:  I’ve somehow managed to find 5 MORE awesome, but lesser-known racing stories.  If you’re a hardcore racing fan, like I am you may have already known some of these, but to the casual racing fan these may be more surprising. 1.) Charlie Glotzbach shot by a disgruntled employee Wow, 1969 was a terrible year for NASCAR Journeyman Charlie Glotzbach.   It started with him losing that years Daytona 500 by 0.1 seconds to LeeRoy Yarbrough on a last lap pass.  Later that year while working at his race shop back in Indiana, Glotzbach was shot twice by a disgruntled employee he had fired the day before.  Miraculously, Glotzbach survived his injuries suffering only broken ribs.  Interestingly enough, doctors left one of the bullets in Glotzbach’s shoulder, so he raced for the rest of his career with a bullet in his shoulder.   In the first televised NASCAR Race to be shown live in its entirety (the 1

  10 Awesome Tribute, Number Swaps, and Copycat Paint Schemes in Racing By: Brian Cotnoir I wish I could come up with a better intro to this article, but I am really struggling to think of a way to do it.   A lot of times a teams paintscheme (or livery) depends on the sponsor.   You will see corporations and companies sponsor teams across mutliple racing series.  In the past companies like Martini, Valvoline, Miller, Marlboro, Budweiser, NAPA, and Bass Pro Shop ran almost idential liveries across mutltiple forms of racing.   Other times a sponsor will follow a driver to a new team, and while the paint scheme may remain the same but the numbers will swap, and finally sometime's a car fails to qualify for a race so a team opts to buy a ride from a different team to feature their sponsor, but they have to run with the number of the other team on it for that one race.  Whatever the reason here are 10 Awesome Tribute, Number Swaps, and Copy Cat Paint Schemes in racing. 1.)  Valvoline in

  Top 5 Best Lap Passes at the Daytona 500 By Brian Cotnoir The Daytona 500 is a little over a month away!   There is no doubt in my mind that the Daytona 500 is my favorite race of the entire year!   No other NASCAR race has as much excitement and memorable finishes as NASCAR Biggest race of the season.   It’s not just a race, it’s an event!     Now personally, I love last lap passes, but those last lap passes take on a whole new meaning during the Daytona 500.    To me a last lap pass at the Daytona 500 is like a buzzer beater in basketball or an overtime goal in hockey, or a walk-off homerun in baseball!   It just gives the race more excitement, and fortunately for me, most of the best Daytona 500’s with a last lap pass have happened in my lifetime!    So without further ado,    here are my picks for the 5 Best Last Lap finishes at the Daytona 500! 5.)   Dale Jarrett, 1993 As a kid watching NASCAR in the 1990’s, it always seemed like the Daytona 500 would be won by Jeff Gord