“Bubba” Barnes, Drag Racing Videographer, Passes Television producer and videographer Timothy Scott “Bubba” Barnes, whose career in motorsports spanned thirty years, passed away on Friday, March 21st, 2008, after battling cancer since 2007. He was forty-eight years old. A longtime racing enthusiast...
I swear I was planning to head out at 5 AM. Figures!
Last time Mr. Dirt raced in the snow was at Noble, OK, in 1993 and, with Cordova's forecast of 16 degrees, it probably would've been one of the coldest races ever if not THE record-holder.
It's important to remember that, in addition to other aspects of his illustrious drag racing career, R.C. Sherman was the first in the seven-second zone in the earliest of Pro Modified's incarnations, IHRA's Street Rod Eliminator, in 1980. There has been no mention of this fact in the media's notice...
Top shot is northwesterner Joe Clement. Bottom shots are Jim Wemett. Bear in mind that this Wemett 'Vette was nearly totalled in a two-car crash with Roy Harris' Trans Am at Darlington in '79.