What counts is what he said in print, at the time. Not what he remembers 30 years later.

If you think he wasn't getting factored every week, all you have to do is go back and read the National Dragster from those years. It's all in print.

That's why you don't read a book about WWII written by a guy who talked to a guy who was there 30 years ago. You need to read what was written when it was happening.