Hylton has the funding, but is racing at 72 safe? - He wants to run in the 500..

espn.com ^ | 1/19/07 | David Newton

[GeorgiaDawg32]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Brett Bodine wasn't sure what to think when James Hylton called NASCAR's Research and Development Center to ask about driving in the 2007 Daytona 500.

"Are you serious?" Bodine said.

"If there were any issues, we wouldn't allow it." -- Brett Bodine

Realizing there were no hidden television cameras and he wasn't being "Punk'd," Bodine told Hylton to fax him his résumé like everybody else seeking certification to drive in a Nextel Cup event.

"I said, 'Well, I hope you have a lot of paper because I have 601 Cup starts,'" Hylton recalled. "Two weeks later, he called and said I was accepted, to come down to Daytona for testing but that NASCAR would be watching me.

"I said, 'I don't see no problem with that. They've been watching me for 40 years.'"

Actually, 43.

Hylton, 72, has been driving a stock car longer than most in the garage have lived.

[cripplecreek]

If he can qualify, let him run.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

NO WAY is racing at 72 safe..he*l, the guy needs to run 190 or better if he wants to win..:)

[neal1960]

From www.goupstate.com, Hyltons hometown newspaper..

Inman's 72-year-old James Hylton turned the 15th-fastest lap during Wednesday afternoon's test session at Daytona International Speedway.

Hylton's lap of 185.445 mph was almost 5 mph faster than his previous best laps Monday and Tuesday.

Hylton, who ran 11 laps Wednesday, was just .053 seconds behind Jeff Gordon, the day's 10th-fastest driver.

[B4Ranch]

See #4

[Pete-R-Bilt]

This is just wrong

he hasn't been competitive since Rusty started racing, no wait Rustys retired now

http://www.jameshylton.com/stats99.htm - stats by year and series

ok, so he had a nice carrier he should be helping a grandson get started or go race trains or something so he doesn't get hurt by the young kids that can't play with each other nice, let alone a senior...

[SouthTexas]

"It's his life, not mine. I'm sure if James Hylton could do it, I could. But I've got better sense."
-- Junior Johnson

[B4Ranch]

Sonny, take it easy with that word senior.

[B4Ranch]

IMO He took a while to have his mid-life crisis.

[SouthTexas]

LOL, I'd say that's a fair assessment!

[Pete-R-Bilt]

B4, you, of all the people that know me should know, I don't judge.

I just calls 'em as I see 'em...

[SouthTexas]

Maybe we should get another professional viewpoint.

You up for this TB?

[B4Ranch]

Calm down, SonnyBoy. I didn't say you wuz judgin' nobody, Iz just remindin you that you can git in deep troubles for talkin too fast. You know, without thinkin first.

[glock rocks]

And this was decided by a Bodine?

I'm all for it! Popcorn time!

My evil twin loves to play "let's you and him fight."

[Pete-R-Bilt]

calm down?!

I'm watchin Barret Jackson and a '69 Mustang Boss 429 just sold for $445,000

I should've never takin the 2 grand I got fer mine when I sold it...

[B4Ranch]

Oh, if we only knew then what we know now.

[tubebender]

I know how you fell PRB and I think he should spend his remaining time running down I/80 between Donner and Wendover doing 85mph hauling 90,000 pounds of Nuclear waste... signed POd 73 year old in Eureka

[tubebender]

I got you beat on the shoulda coulda woulda lament. I had a chance to buy a matching numbers fuelie 63 Vette just eight years ago for $18,000. I passed because I didn't like the seating...

[Pete-R-Bilt]

gasp,whine,sigh

[Pete-R-Bilt]

wow a 93 H-1 Hummer that was a CNN transport in Iraq just sold for a million bucks, all the money going to the Fischer house.

the competing bidder also contributed a qtr. million.