Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 18, 1991 TAG: 9104180026
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Doctors at Vanderbilt will decide whether to allow Marlin to race at North Wilkesboro Speedway this weekend, team spokesman Chris Browning said. Marlin and team owner Junior Johnson hope Sterling can drive a lap of the First Union 400 and then have veteran Charlie Glotzbach take over the wheel, Browning said.
Marlin was up and walking around Wednesday morning for the first time since the accident, Browning said.
"He seems to be in real good spirits," Browning said.
When Marlin's primary doctor in Bristol, Claude Calcote, asked him why he wanted to race at North Wilkesboro so badly, Marlin replied, "It's worth a million bucks to me at the end of the year."
The winner of the Winston Cup championship receives $1 million.
The injury "did turn out to be a little bit more" than people originally thought, Browning said, but doctors in Bristol don't believe he will need any skin grafts. Marlin received severe second degree burns on his inner thighs, right shoulder, elbow, hands and face during a flash fire that enveloped his car as it crashed in turn one at the Bristol raceway.
\ Drivers who have won 14 Winston Cup championships and more than 600 races will participate in Winston Legends activities during the May 19 The Winston weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.
Among those being reunited at the events will be former Winston Cup champions Bobby Allison, Buck Baker, Tim Flock, Ned Jarrett, Benny Parsons, David Pearson and Cale Yarborough. More than 40 former drivers say they will participate.
by CNB