And One More!
May. 24th, 2017 04:39 amPaul Goldsmith, amazingly enough, is still around. Now I've identified six of the seven men surviving to have raced front-engined cars in the Five Hundred. Goldsmith never won the Five Hundred, but he's another one woho could easily have done so. He finished third in 1960, part of that titanic five-way duel with Jim Rathmann, Rodger Ward, Johnny Thomson, and Don Branson. He stalked the leaders, and took care of his car all day long, then undertook a late-race charge to the front. Sadly, he left it until a few laps too late - had it gone on another five laps, he may well have won.
Now I'm missing one more...
Now I'm missing one more...