Doug Richert
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166 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Doug Richert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're leading.
He didn't get a chance to go to Disneyland or anything like that for his win.
could have been yeah i think then i think we actually called it the bozo bus oh it was the van that we all rode it was yellow yellow and blue and all that yeah that's what we rode it yeah that was our bus yeah driving to every race oh yeah yeah that was before we unheard of airplanes right private planes right you might have flew to ontario but otherwise yeah those yeah but the everything else you were in the car yeah van
commercial commercial but as far as the cars go even then we had to have other cars right we had couldn't go out with one car so we had spare yeah you know at the time we were building our own stuff and you know i think we were kind of ahead of the time in that era too and so we had spares we had them ready had to come back turn the trucks around just like you do now
Did you end up in the hedges?
Yeah, every week.
I mean, when you think back to 78 –
The only reason we ran only five races in 78 was so he was still eligible for Rookie of the Year in 79.
And, you know, that was always big.
That was always everybody's focus, you know, for the longest time.
Yeah, obviously.
Just another car.
No, I don't think it was a very bad battle.
I mean, I don't remember anything, any fights or any confrontations, you know, it was a little different back in, you know, we were all new, so we're not gonna go start a fight, but you know, he was competitive though.
I, we, we all realize that.
And if we had to make sure we did our jobs, right.
You know, I was a tire changer and, you know, had to go through the motions and we had to do our stuff, right.
Otherwise we could lose it just as easy as he could make a mistake on the track.
Like Martinsville?
Like hitting the curb and taking out half the field?
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