Morgan Shepherd’s daughter defends her father’s racing

Last weekend, in the most recent NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, Morgan Shepherd broke his own record as the oldest driver to start a Sprint Cup race. His age — north of 70 — became controversial after an in-race incident with then-second-place-running Joey Logano. After the incident, Logano hinted that, at Shepherd’s age, maybe he should undergo some kind of NASCAR-mandated driving test. Shepherd, though, contended that the wreck was actually Logano’s fault.

Anyway, in the days that followed, Shepherd’s age came into question, mainly in the form of the question of whether or not he should still be racing at his advanced age. Then the debate came relating to NASCAR’s minimum speed limits at certain tracks and whether or not those limits should be examined and possibly changed.

Meanwhile, answering to the [...]

July 20, 2014CommentsRead More