Benny Parsons runs a “bridge year” for Bud Moore (1981)
Join me throughout this year as I take a look at when some of the sport’s biggest stars drove some unusual cars! (Presented in no particular order).
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Why? After having run primarily for Ray DeWitt and MC Anderson, Parsons made the jump to Bud Moore’s team for 1981. Moore needed a new driver after Bobby Allison left the team to run for Harry Ranier.
How successful were they? Relatively speaking the pairing was a mild disappointment—after Parsons had finished third in the standings the previous year—and Moore had finished sixth with Allison—the combo finished tenth in their lone season together.
What was the aftermath? Bud Moore’s teams would continue as race-win contenders, making regular finishes in the season’s top-ten points standings, throughout the eighties. Parsons, meanwhile, would post only a single win for the rest of his career.
Ranking on the Strange-O-Meter? 5 “unnnnnbelievables” out of 10. I’m starting to think that if you were a regular race-winner and your name wasn’t Petty, you probably raced for Bud Moore at some point in your career if you realized it or not.
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