NASCAR 75: No. 18 in a series of 75 stories that helped define the first three quarters of a century of NASCAR.
Ronald Reagan was in Daytona Beach on July 4, 1984 for what turned out to be one ofUsing a special phone and a video feed from perhaps 38,000 feet over South Carolina, the 40th President gave the “Gentlemen, start your engines” command.NASCAR had presented 1,421 Cup Series races since 1949 before a sitting President finally showed up. Several candidates had campaigned at race venues and some had hosted drivers, owners, officials, and the media at White House functions.
Reagan was in full re-election mode. He and vice-presidential candidate George H. W. Busch were running that summer against Walter Mondale and vice-presidential hopeful Geraldine Ferraro. The Republicans led every poll, and Mondale-Ferraro wasn’t given any chance of an upsets. This time, the experts were right.RacingOneReagan-Bush won everywhere except DC and Mondale’s home state of Minnesota.
Thus, Reagan’s group boarded Air Force One on Wednesday morning, July 4 and headed for Daytona Beach International Airport. Around mid-morning, using a special phone and a video feed from perhaps 38,000 feet over South Carolina, the 40th President gave the “Gentlemen, start your engines” command.
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