Tim Leeming, Author at Pure Thunder Racing

Richard Petty and Me, Chapter 4″The Year of The Thumpers”

To begin this chapter, I need to point out that attendance and short track races with my Uncle Bobby and[…]

The news of the convertible division didn’t normally make out local newspaper, but we were able to find out Richard[…]

My memory of the Draft taking Bobby away is limited at best. I was just 8 years old when Bobby[…]

I considered, only for a moment, entitling this story “The King and I”. Unfortunately, that title had already been taken[…]

I have often told the story of how my Grandfather Dewey, and my Uncle Bobby, 11 years older than I,[…]

(Editor’s Note; I was listening to Tim Leeming and Bill Blair Jr.’s podcast last night and they had Legendary short[…]

R.I.P Paul “Lil Bud” Moore 12/07/1941 – 08/01/2017 I don’t remember the specific date I first met him, nor the[…]

Within the past week*, we race fans have lost two very prominent men, probably not well known to the “come[…]

In August 21, 2017: Millions of people gathered at places all over this country to watch the sun be eclipsed by[…]

It is almost impossible to believe that it has been almost 70 years ago that I sat in a grandstand[…]