David Pearson

Collarbone, I guess, is what the biggest thing was.

He gets out of the car, and David Pearson...

That's correct.

...gets in.

But I can't even fathom the fact that somebody would pull over and let somebody pass them.

And this is DeMarcus.

He had won I don't know how many races to that point, but the fact is he was not piling up wins like Richard Petty or David Pearson or Bobby Allison or whoever.

For Dave, he had the scratch and claw for every top five, top ten that he got, much less a victory.

the same level

now that they were, I mean, with Marvin Panch or David Pearson and the people that used to come.

I mean, they're all signing autographs, and you'd think they'd all won the Indianapolis 500 or something.

Right.

His best career finishes were a pair of 12th place efforts in 1973.

The first came at Darlington, where he was 41 laps down to race winner David Pearson.

He was 12th, but he was 41 laps down.

That's all I'm going to say about

Yeah,

I'm going to say that's all I'm going to say because I've gotten dinged on that a couple of times, you know, but that's fine.

And the second was at Michigan where he was nine laps down behind race winner David Pearson.

Now, this was 1973, and if David Pearson showed up, he basically won.

He's run fairly well here lately.

And, you know, going from a guy that, eh, lost his ride, we don't really know, to ripping off all these top 10s, longest top 10 streak we'd seen since David Pearson, [laughs] which is a, a hell of a long time, to getting this ride at Legacy, to finishing strong in this car.

Everything seems to be running his direction.

Penske's been stronger.

... person.

He also broke the, uh, not broke a record, but scored a number of top 10s in a row that the Wood Brothers haven't seen since David Pearson.

Yes.

Yep.

So, I mean, that's, that's a feat in and of itself.

And anytime you get your name mentioned-

[laughs] With David Pearson

... with David Pearson, that's a big deal

But this NASCAR throwback vintage era, NBC Sports did a, I watched that one-hour show, whatever it was in length, fantastic job.

You know, they had all these drivers, David Pearson and Cale Yarborough.

I don't know if you know anything about Wood Brothers, but these are the people who were at Le Mans, so with the Ford GT program.

I really, really enjoyed that very much.