Red Farmer just can’t slow down
After 62 years of racing, he can’t bring himself to retire to his front porch.
“you can’t fish seven days a week.â€
No one can accuse Farmer of being a couch potato. Not only has he been driving non-stop for decades, he has done it — and continues to do it — with an assortment of ailments that would lay low much younger drivers.
He has continued to race year after year through shoulder and knee replacement surgery, surgery on his arm, screws in his back, prostate cancer. And that’s just the more recent stuff.
He also survived the 1993 helicopter crash that killed Davey Allison.
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