The Last Ride: Food City 300 to be Teague's final race - Johnson City Press (subscription)
Once Teague qualifies for Friday’s race, he will join Morgan Shepherd as the only drivers to race in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (formerly Busch Series) in both its inaugural season of 1982 and the present year. Teague made his first laps around Bristol Motor Speedway in 1971 in a car not exactly suited for a high-banked paved track. He has raced and tested a variety of cars ranging from Late Model Stocks to the Sprint Cup Series. “I don’t think they’ve kept up with the Sportsman stuff as much, or you look at all the testing I’ve done,” said Teague, who has eight Sprint Cup starts at Bristol. “The first time I ran up there was in 1971 in a dirt-track car I ran at Sportsman Speedway. I’ve got a lot of laps in Late Model Sportsman cars and when they brought the different Late Model Stock series to race up there, I did a lot of tire testing. Teague’s racing career started on the egg-shaped dirt oval at Johnson City’s Sportsman Speedway in 1967 and he was the champion in the six-cylinder division just one year later. He is also a former track champion at Lonesome Pine Raceway in Coeburn, Virginia, and three times, he finished runner-up in the Kingsport Speedway track championship standings. In 1981, he was runner-up to Tommy Ellis for the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman (forerunner to the Xfinity Series). Source: www.johnsoncitypress.com
