Was is it a prank? Or was real malice the intent? Decades later, the folks behind the hijinks remain a mystery.
Fifty years ago, on August 11, 1974, the morning of the Talladega 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, Cup Series teams arrived in the track’s huge garage area to find chaos.During the overnight hours, a person had sabotaged almost half the field of race cars scheduled to compete for 500 miles on one of the fastest race tracks in the world.
”The sabotage apparently was noticed first by team owner Roger Penske, whose Matador was driven that season by Bobby Allison. Penske said some kind of material had been poured into the fuel tank. Word spread quickly through the garage, and many teams discovered damage to their cars. Sand had been funneled into fuel cells. Cale Yarborough’s team found sand and a soft drink in his Chevrolet’s fuel cell, necessitating a replacement.
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