The zMAX CARS Tour made its return to Hickory Motor Speedway at the end of July for the annual Throwback 276, the series’ highly-anticipated version of NASCAR’s throwback weekend.
Among the drivers in attendance was Landon Huffman, making his return to the series after some time off with a throwback to his father Robert Huffman‘s racing career.
Huffman wound up 11th in the running order following an eventful return that included the contact with Andrew Grady and two separate drives from the back half of the field.
The event was spotlighted by a spat between Huffman and Grady, which led to a post-race brawl between Grady’s crew and another team, along with the infamous “Trash Panda” comments that Grady directed towards Huffman.
In the end, Huffman – who’s team was not involved in the post-race scuffle – landed a sponsorship deal with the Rocket City Trash Pandas Minor League Baseball team which came to life at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Frontstretch caught up with Huffman on July 27, prior to the events that transpired at Hickory, where Huffman talked about carrying on his father’s racing legacy, his current and future CARS Tour status and more.
Chase Folsom, Frontstretch: Landon, you’ve got a beautiful throwback here with us tonight in honor of your dad, Robert Huffman. For those that don’t know, (can you) just give us the backstory on this throwback and what it means to you, why you wanted to run it?
Landon Huffman: Yeah this event is always really cool for me just because it’s at Hickory – my home track – and dad ran a lot of cool racecars here and won a lot of races. So each year I kind of have a laundry list of schemes that I sort of go through and figure out what fits that year best.
This year we get to do, it’s actually the 31st anniversary of dad’s last Late Model Stock win, which came here at Hickory in 1993 driving for Wilson Sigmon and Sig’s Tire Centers. So now we get to recreate that car. It looks beautiful, it came out almost identical.
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