Daywalt Qualifies with Hot 144.683
15 Feb
By George Thomas
Wabash Plain Dealer Sports Editor
SPEEDWAY CITY – The chalked up a big “okay” for Jimmy Daywalt at the completion of one lap and that was the signal for the Wabash driver to stay on the throttle as he sped to a 144.683 qualification run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Sunday afternoon.
Daywalt had turned in a lap almost as fast Saturday in an earlier qualifying attempt, but mistook the sign to mean 140.5 rather than 144.5 and slowed down when he attempted to change his style on the next lap. he was flagged in by chief mechanic Russ Snowberger.
The Speedy run by Daywalt placed him on the inside of the fifth row for the Memorial day 500-mile race. He was only one of the qualifiers Sunday as rain intererrupted trials and practice at different intervals. the other qualifier was Jack Turner of Seattle, who will be in the middle of the fifth row in the Travelon Trailer Special.
