at the track. Then he was killed, and that really knocked
Poovey says. "In 1998 I got second, then in 1999 I didn't do so good. Then in 2000, I won it again. If you
the socks off of me."
And back in 1996, a crash of another sort nearly
look from '93 on, I was second or better either at the
ended Poovey's career, when his transporter and race
600 National or the Grand National."
equipment were consumed in a fiery highway accident in
But if it sounds like Poovey's career has been all
Michigan. The crash also claimed the life of his friend and
good, well, it hasn't. There has been a lot of pain and
mechanic, L u McCory.
heartache along the way - both physical and mental. At
''All I had left was the bottom of a rollaway toolbox
the 1993 Pomona Half Mile, Poovey had the worst crast/
of his career when he caught his front wheel in between - - ard a tire rack," Poovey says. "I would never, ever have
hOught that my career would have ended up where I
Dan Ingram's rear wheel and boom box, sending Poovey
equipment and win that
able to buil
