Fonty Flock
Truman Fontell " Fonty " Flock ( born March 21, 1920 in Fort Payne, Alabama; † 15 July 1972) was an American NASCAR driver. Fonty Flock was the brother of NASCAR pioneers Tim Flock and Bob Flock and the second woman, who took in a NASCAR race, Ethel Mobley. The four siblings drove on 10 July 1949, a race at the Daytona Beach Road Course. It was the first race in which a brother and a sister competed at the same time and the only NASCAR race in which four siblings competed simultaneously.
Career
Schwarzbrennerei
Like many early NASCAR driver began Fontys career with the smuggling of illegal spirits fired. After initially distributed the alcohol with the bike, he used his car, as he grew older. Later he said to his time as a smuggler: " I used to deliberately seek out the sheriff and get him to chase me. [ ... ] It was fun, and besides We Could send to California to get special parts to modify our cars, and the sheriff could not afford to do that " - in German: ". I have visited with the intention Sheriff, that he haunts me. [ ... ] It was fun and by the way we were able to get the particular parts of California, with which we have modified our cars, and the sheriff could not afford this. "
Early years
In 1940 he won a race over 100 miles in Lakewood Park in Atlanta, Georgia and raced on dirt tracks, the so-called dirt tracks.
On July 27, 1941, he qualified on pole position for the race at the Daytona Beach Road Course next to Roy Hall. Flock initially took the lead before he and Hall collided in the Südkehre. Flock flipped over and landed upside down in the bushes. Since the seat belt in the accident broke, Flock has been thrown around in his car and then taken to a hospital by ambulance. He suffered in this accident a broken rib cage, a broken pelvis, injuries to the head and back as well as a severe shock.
After he then served four years in the United States Army during the Second World War, he continued the seasons of 1945 and 1946 in order to recover from his injuries. His brother convinced the car owner Ed Schenck flock in his car at the first race at the North Wilkesboro Speedway on May 5, 1947 let go. Flock won the pole position and won his heat. Then he won the feature race over 30 laps, after he had previously driven a race four and a half years. Later in the season, he took over the car from his brother Bob, after he had broken his back. This season, he won 47 races and beat Ed Samples and Red Byron in the battle for the National Championship Stock Car Circuit Championship.
NASCAR
In 1949 he competed in the NASCAR National Modified Championship, won eleven races and also the title. In addition, Flock went to in six of the eight Strictly Stock race and finished fifth in the overall standings. In 1951, he ran the full season in the renamed Grand National Strictly Stock Series. With eight wins, 22 top 10 and 13 pole positions, he finished second in the championship. In the following season, Flock won twice, scored 17 top-10 results and seven pole positions. He finished fourth in the championship.
In the race at the Daytona Beach Road Course in 1953, he led more than a minute ahead when he ran out of fuel after crossing the white flag. His teammate pushed the cart for refueling in the pits and Bill Blair overtook him in his Oldsmobile. Flock was 26 seconds in second place. With four wins, 17 top-10 results and three pole positions, he was again fourth in the championship.
In 1954 Flock opened an insurance agency and first drove then only intermittently race. The following year, he went 31 of 45 races. With three wins, 14 top-10 results and six pole positions, he finished in eleventh place in the overall standings. In the season of 1956 he scored his last victory at the Charlotte Speedway.
In 1957, he went first only on the Daytona Beach Road Course at the start. After Herb Thomas injured during practice for the Southern 500, Flock jumped in as a replacement. The car itself was in poor condition and in the sixth round burst a tire. Flock was unhurt and then decided to withdraw from racing.