Dr. Mark D. Howell

The Michigan Senate has voted 31-4 to designate the wood duck as the state's official duck. legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025…

Remembering Lynda Petty today 3/6/1942 - 3/25/2014 #RIP #TheQueenOfNASCAR ❤️

Butch Lindley would have been 78 today #RIP Butch Lindley, of Greenville, SC, won over 500 feature races, including the Snowball Derby, All American 400, Oxford 250 and VT Milk Bowl. He won the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman national championship in 1977 and 1978. #NASCARLegend 🏁

Remembering Gwyn Staley today 7/6/1927 - 3/23/1958 #RIP Gwyn Staley, of Wilkes County, NC, won three NASCAR Grand National (Cup) races and two NASCAR Convertible Series races in 1956 and 1957. In 1958, he died in a Convertible race crash at Richmond. He was only 30.

Barney Oldfield waits at the line for the 1914 Los Angeles to Phoenix "Cactus Derby" on the Pacific Electric bridge on El Monte Boulevard in LA. Oldfield started fifth, so his Stutz Indianapolis 500 racer was assigned number 5. It was tremendous theater. firstsuperspeedway.com/photo-gallery/…

Remembering Charlie Jarzombek today 9/30/1942 - 3/22/1987 #RIP #CharginCharlie 🏁

Billy Hagan would have been 94 today #RIP Team owner Billy Hagan, of Lillie, LA, and driver Terry Labonte won their first NASCAR Winston Cup race in 1980 - the Southern 500. 🏁 Four years later, they won the 1984 Winston Cup championship. 🏆

American driver Peter Revson tragically lost his life #OnThisDay, 22nd March 1974, at the age of 35, during a practice session at the Kyalami circuit in South Africa. He was driving a Ford-powered Shadow DN3. This incident was the second racing fatality in the Revson family, following his brother Douglas, who died in a crash in Denmark in 1967. Revson had two Grand Prix wins to his name. “There was an obvious failure in the car,” Graham Hill said. “It went straight into the barrier at about 120mph and burst into flames. At the time, Peter was pretty much alone on the track. Emerson Fittipaldi and I were ahead of him.” Hill added he pulled up where the car was, and “by that time the race crew were there with extinguishers. We picked up the front end of the car to get Peter out.” Sadly, Revson succumbed to his injuries en route to the hospital. Revson, along with Dan Gurney, was one of two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, Can-Am, and Trans-Am. His exuberant champagne-spraying celebrations in victory lane earned him the nickname “Champagne Peter.” Revson was posthumously inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1996. From 30 starts, he scored 61 points, securing two wins and eight podiums, driving for some of F1’s most historic teams, including McLaren and Tyrrell. He also drove a Lotus 24 and 25 with the privateer team Reg Parnell Racing. #f1 #formula1

Barney Oldfield used the Henry Ford-designed "999" to defeat the internationally famous driver Alexander Winton and was thrust into national prominence. He was the first man to cover a mile track in less than 60 seconds. A "mile a minute!" June 20, 1903. firstsuperspeedway.com/photo-gallery/…