By Rick Houston
Three races.
That’s all Phil Parsons got at the start of the 1990 Winston Cup season to show Morgan-McClure Motorsports what he could do. And when those races didn’t go well … at all … Parsons was released, then and there, just like that.
Parsons had cataract surgery on his left eye prior to the season, and rumors started circulating around the close-knit NASCAR community that he had something substantially wrong with his eyesight. Could he see well enough to drive? Was that why he’d been released so quickly? How the rumors got started wasn’t really important … they weren’t true, according to Parsons … but they did, in fact, damage his career.
So rather than keep attempting in vain to find another Winston Cup ride, Parsons looked to the Busch Series to revive his career.
This is his story.
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