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Buddy Baker breaks the 200 mph speed barrier
Nov 10, 2024
Buddy Baker breaks the 200 mph lap speed barrier at the NASCAR superspeedway, Talladega, March, 1970, in a Dodge Charger Daytona
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before we return to the live situation
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uh after the accident that's occurred
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here at Phoenix here's a brief report on
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another notable achievement in Motor
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Racing that occurred this week this was
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Buddy Baker a top NASCAR stock car
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driver on Tuesday of this week at the
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new 2.66 Mile Alabama International
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Speedway in Talladega Alabama during
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runs conducted for transmission testing
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buddy became the first man in history to
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break the 200 mph barrier on a closed
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race course and you're watching him do
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it here in his winged Dodge stock racing
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car at full speed right now flat out at
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Talladega the Taladega is an ultra Fast
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Track the fastest in the world as a
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matter of fact and on this run Baker
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averaged
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200.96
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mph and incidentally ABC will be
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televising the Alabama 500 from
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Talladega live on Sunday April 12th with
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the local area down there blacked out of
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course out of turn three and on the high
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banking going into turn four part of the
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reason for the high speeds of Talladega
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of course is the exceptionally High
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banking which is
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33° Buddy Baker achieved this awesome
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lap after several warm-up tours of the
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course and afterwards he came back out
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again and did even better 2.44 S and
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there he is in the home
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stretch Buddy Baker at 200 after the run
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Roger bear the speedway public relations
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director asked how it felt to be the
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first man to break the 200 mph barrier
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gosh it's most wonderful feeling I've
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had in a long long time uh this
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something that nobody can ever take away
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from you being the first guy to run 200
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M hour on a closed course circuit and uh
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gosh I just tickle to death buddy the
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racetrack is different than most other
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racetracks in the world in that it's
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banked 33° five stories high are the
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banking and it's two and 2/3 miles
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around that's bigger than any closed
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course that uh that you run wide open
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like this well believe me when you're
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running 200 it feels just like it's flat
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because uh it takes every bit of the
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banking to run this speed and uh uh
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we'll just tickle to death to be able to
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come down here and break the record
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thank you
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