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By Val Van Meter
Times Newspapers Staff Writer
The first time he drove his race car out on the Winchester Speedway track was also a different kind of first for Berryville’s Robert Tomblin.
“I’d never even driven it down the driveway,” he recalls.
And there he was, committed to pushing the machine to speeds up to 90 miles per hour on a 3/8-mile track.
“It’s not like driving on the road. There is a world of difference. On a road you’ve got reference points, like the lines and the shoulder. On a track, that’s all gone. You have to decide, should I run high or run low, where should I be? It’s scary. I was nervous when I first went out to do it. I just wanted to keep up as best I could, without making a stupid mistake.”
Tomblin found himself in a contest anyway.
“I got spun out the very first night.”
The first car was faster than his. The duel came between another car and his machine. “He could run over me in the corners, but down the straightaway, he couldn’t touch me!”
The other driver took advantage of his cornering ability and Tomblin’s inexperience to put him out of the race.
“He took a cheap shot at me,” says Tomblin with a shake of his head. But, he adds, it was something he had to learn.
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