The last time a NASCAR race was postponed by snow...

Something very unusual happened today. The NASCAR Cup race from Martinsville, Virginia was postponed until tomorrow by snow. This isn't unheard of, but it's a pretty rare occurrence- the last time it happened was in March, 1993, and the race that was postponed was only the 4th I ever saw.

Since it was the 1990s and everything was great back then, the snowout actually got it's own card.

The front of the card shows Geoff Bodine's Bud Moore Engineering Ford under the car cover.  I'm not sure why nobody thought to close the garage doors, but it led to this great photograph and very memorable card, which is from 1994 Maxx Premier Series.



Just because it's relevant to the post, here is the card of Morgan Shepherd in victory lane after winning, card #269 from the same set:

I was new to the sport and kind of young, so I don't remember too much about that race, but I do remember seeing Morgan Shepherd winning, and I remember some of the on track action.

Amazingly, Morgan Shepherd- now 78 years old- still shows up for some of the Xfinity races, although the last time he was actually competitive was 1997. He holds the record for the oldest driver to start a Cup race. He and Derrike Cope are the only drivers left from 1993 when I started watching to even try to race, although neither have had a full-time ride since the late 1990s, and neither has won a race since Shepherd won in 1993.