eightball, explain???
I guess i did a poor job of setting that up for younger race fans .
Gary Balough was one of the hottest drivers in America in the 70s and 80s . He was not only one of those guys that could drive anything but win in anything , dirt , asphalt , supers , mods and stock cars . Gary is best remembered for driving the Batmobile car in 1980 at Syracuse and being 2 seconds faster then anyone else . Gary had many Hanley cars that he won a ton of races in as burbiotch said . In 85 Gary had signed a deal for the 86 season with top cup team Harry Rainier and Robert Yates when he got busted for drug dealing with a group of other drivers and race people . Originally sentenced to 30 years it got it reduced and was out 4 years later . In 2004 he was rearrested when the Charlotte police found coke in his van . It cost him 6 years this time around but he will be out next spring .
Salt Walther came on to the Indy scene in the early 70s from Unlimited Hydroplane boat racing . His dad owned a big steel foundry in Ohio and they had FU money . Salt had the best Champ cars money could buy but never did much other then cause one of the Speedways most helacious crashes in 1973 .Walther was badly burnt a long with about 20 people in the grandstands .
Salt got addicted to Diluddeds after receiving them for his severe burns and things pretty much spiraled down from there .