By Rick Houston
The day was hot and humid, and once cars got up to speed at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway in the North Carolina mountains, the newly paved racing surface almost immediately began to crumble. It was a recipe for disaster … or a full-scale riot, take your pick.
Fans, already miserable due to the sweltering heat, seethed when the race was called just past the halfway point of the scheduled 500-lap event. Junior Johnson was declared the winner, but that seemed of little consequence. Incredibly, a few took it upon themselves to block the only way out of the track and, in effect, held competitors hostage.
Bud Moore was there that day, and he remembered the highly charged atmosphere in an early episode of The Scene Vault Podcast. This is his story.
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