- Dale Earnhardt
Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. (April 29, 1951 - February 18, 2001) was a race car driver. Best known for his career driving stock cars in NASCAR's top division. Earnhardt had four children, Kerry, Kelley Elledge Earnhardt, Dale Jr., and Taylor Earnhardt. His widow, Teresa Earnhardt (whom he married in 1982) is the owner of Dale Earnhardt, Inc., the race team and merchandising corporation Earnhardt founded with her in February of 1980. - Jeff Gordon
Jeffery Michael Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is a professional American race car driver. He was born in Vallejo, California, raised in Pittsboro, Indiana, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a four-time NASCAR Winston Cup (now NEXTEL Cup) Series champion, three-time Daytona 500 winner, and driver of the #24 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS/Impala SS. His primary sponsor is DuPont, though he occasionally drives a Pepsi-themed car or a Nicorette-themed car. - Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (born October 10, 1974), is a professional American race car driver. He is the son of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt. During his career, Earnhardt, Jr. has competed successfully in a number of racing classes and events, is a two-time Busch Series champion (one of 6 people to win back-to-back championships), and was the winner of the 2004 Daytona 500. - Jimmie Johnson
James Kenneth Johnson (born September 17, 1975, El Cajon, California) is a current NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race car driver who drives the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS and Chevrolet Impala SS owned by his teammate Jeff Gordon and operated by Rick Hendrick's Hendrick Motorsports. In his rookie year he became the first rookie in the Cup series to sweep both races at a track when he won both races at Dover International Speedway. - Michael Waltrip
Michael Curtis Waltrip (born April 30, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is a professional race car driver and owner of Michael Waltrip Racing. He is the younger brother of Darrell Waltrip, a three-time NASCAR champion (now retired). Waltrip is a two-time winner of the Daytona 500 (2001 & 2003), and drives a self-owned #55 NAPA Toyota Camry in the NEXTEL Cup Series. - Richard Petty
Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is an American former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver. He is most well-known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat),winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone. (A 1972 rule change eliminated races under 250 miles in length, … - Darrell Waltrip
With the Daytona 500 fewer than two weeks away, three-time champ and Fox Sports NASCAR analyst Darrell Waltrip shares his thoughts on the upcoming season. ... It was Darrell Waltrip who remarked that the second race in California might resemble a "ghost town." That one comment was aired earlier in the week by accident and was actually replaced in the program's re-air with more happy faces and ... - Bobby Hamilton
Charles Robert "Bobby" Hamilton, Sr. was a driver and owner in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series circuit and the winner of the 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship. Hamilton owned Bobby Hamilton Racing, which regularly fields three entries in each NCTS event. Hamilton's son, Bobby Hamilton, Jr., is currently a driver in the NASCAR Busch Series, and owns Bobby Hamilton Racing, yet he has disavowed his relationship with the team. - Bill Davis
Bill Davis is a NASCAR car owner that won the Daytona 500 with Ward Burton in 2002. His team, Bill Davis Racing, currently fields the #22 Caterpillar Inc. Toyota Camry and the #36 360/OTC Camry in the Nextel Cup series, as well as Toyotas in the Craftsman Truck Series for Mike Skinner, Tyler Walker, and Johnny Benson. - Cale Yarborough
William Caleb "Cale" Yarborough (born March 27, 1939 in Timmonsville, South Carolina, near the Famous Darlington Raceway), is a businessman and former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner. He is the only driver in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships. In the past, he has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. His 83 wins places him at number five in the all-time NASCAR winner's list. - David Pearson
David Pearson (born December 22, 1934 in Whitney, South Carolina) is a former American NASCAR racecar champion. Known as the "Silver Fox", he debuted on the Grand National racing circuit in 1960 and earned Rookie of the Year honors that same season. He went on to win the NASCAR Championship in 1966, 1968 and 1969. Pearson ranks as one of the greatest of all NASCAR drivers and his duels with Richard Petty are legendary. Between August 8, 1963 and June 12, 1977, … - Mario Andretti
Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940 in Montona d'Istria, Italy, now Motovun, Croatia) is an Italian American racecar driver, and one of the most successful Americans in the history of auto racing. He has competed and won in many different types of auto racing, including stock cars, midget cars, sprint cars, IndyCars, drag racing cars, sports cars, and single-seater Formula One cars. During his career, Andretti won four IndyCar titles, … - Kevin Lepage
Kevin Lepage (born June 26, 1962) is a NASCAR driver from Shelburne, Vermont. He is currently driving for Front Row Motorsports. Lepage is the only NASCAR driver from Vermont to qualify for the Daytona 500. - Brett Bodine
Brett Bodine (born January 11, 1959, in Chemung, New York), is a former NASCAR Winston Cup driver and is the current driver of the pace car in NEXTEL Cup events. Brett is employed by NASCAR as Director of Cost and Research. Brett is the younger brother of 1986 Daytona 500 winner Geoff Bodine and the older brother of 2006 Craftsman Truck Series champion Todd Bodine. - Mike Joy
Mike Joy (born November 25, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is a TV sports announcer, who currently serves as the lap-by-lap voice of FOX Sports' NASCAR Nextel Cup coverage. His color analysts are Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds. Joy is also Speed Channel's expert analyst for their coverage of collector car auctions, and vintage auto racing events. - Donnie Allison
Dunkiny "Donnie" Allison (born September 7, 1939) is a former driver on the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup circuit, who won ten times during his racing career, which spanned the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. He was part of the "Alabama Gang," and is the brother of 1983 champion Bobby Allison and uncle of Davey Allison. Donnie is possibly most remembered for his involvement in a final-lap crash and subsequent fight with Cale Yarborough at the 1979 Daytona 500. - Dave Marcis
Dave Marcis (born March 1, 1941), Wausau, Wisconsin) was a driver on the NASCAR Winston Cup (now known as the NASCAR Nextel Cup) circuit from 1968 until 2002. Marcis won five times over this tenure, twice at Richmond, including his final win in 1982. Dave was most famous for two things: racing for his own team and racing while wearing wingtip shoes to absorb the heat in the car. He made the Daytona 500 every year from 1968 until 1999. - Robert Pressley
Robert Pressley from Asheville, NC was born April 8, 1959. He is a former NASCAR driver. In a February 2006 Sportingnews.com article about the 2001 Daytona 500 field, Robert's current status was listed as "Opened Celebrity's Hotdogs in Asheville, N.C., a year ago. Racing career appears over.". Presently, he is also the head of the driver development program for Wood Brothers/JTG Racing. - Mike Harmon
Mike Harmon (born January 24, 1958 in Birmingport, Alabama), is a race car driver. Currently, he drives the #38 Richardson-Netzloff Racing Chevrolet in the ARCA RE/MAX Series, and the #44 Chevrolet for Richardson-Netzloff Racing in the Busch Series. In the past, he drove in the NASCAR Slim Jim All Pro Series, finishing 8th in points in 1997. He has also racked up 300 feature wins in short-track competition during his racing career. - Dave Despain
Dave Despain (born May 20, 1946) is an American motor sports journalist. He is the host of two Speed Channel programs: "WindTunnel with Dave Despain" and "NASCAR Inside Nextel Cup". A native of Fairfield, Iowa, Despain was a former motorcycle racer who joined the American Motorcycle Association in the public-relations department. - Andy Hillenburg
Andy Hillenburg (born April 30, 1963), is an American race car driver. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana) and began his racing career at age 11, when he competed in the Indianapolis soap box derby. He won the state quarter midget championships in 1975-1979. Hillenburg won the ARCA Super Car Series Championship in 1995, with 3 time ARCA Champion Bob Dotter as Crew Chief. He served as a test driver for the IROC series. - Bud Moore
Walter M. "Bud" Moore, a former NASCAR car owner, was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina on May 251925. A decorated veteran of World War II, he described himself as "an old country mechanic who loved to make 'em run fast". In 1957, driver Buck Baker won the NASCAR Grand National championship with Bud Moore as crew chief. In 1961, Moore got much of his success as a car owner for Joe Weatherly, who won eight of his twenty-four races driving Moore's Pontiacs. - Darian Grubb
Darian Grubb is a NASCAR mechanic and crew chief. He spent four years as an assistant with Hendrick Motorsports, before taking over the crew chief job temporarily for Jimmie Johnson's team at the 2006 Daytona 500, after regular crew chief Chad Knaus was suspended. Johnson went on to win that race for his first Daytona 500 victory. Johnson and Grubb went on to finish second at the 2006 Auto Club 500. Johnson won two weeks later, again with Grubb, … - Allen Bestwick
Allen Bestwick (born on September 24, 1961 in Newport, Rhode Island) is a NASCAR pit reporter, serving as one of ESPN and ABC's pit reporters for their NASCAR Nextel Cup and Busch Series coverage. Prior to that, Bestwick worked for NBC and TNT on their NASCAR coverage, serving as play-by-play man until 2005 and spending the last two seasons as the lead pit reporter. - Janet Guthrie
Janet Guthrie (born March 7, 1938 in Iowa City, Iowa) is a race car driver and the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500. Guthrie was originally an aerospace engineer and after graduating from the University of Michigan, she worked with Republic Aviation. She began racing in 1963 on the SCCA circuit in a Jaguar XK 140 and by 1972, she was racing on a full-time basis. In 1976, Guthrie got her first big break in racing, … - Pete Hamilton
Pete Hamilton (born July 20, 1942 in Dedham, Massachusetts) is a former NASCAR racer. He won four times in his career (including the 1970 Daytona 500), each time driving for Petty Enterprises. Hamilton won the 1974 Snowball Derby in his latemodel racecar. His father was a Ph.D. from Harvard University. - Smokey Yunick
Henry "Smokey" Yunick (born May 25, 1923, Neshaminy, PA, died May 9, 2001 of leukemia) was a mechanic and car designer associated with motorsports in the United States. Yunick was deeply involved in the early years of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), and he is probably most associated with that racing genre. He participated as a racer, designer, and other jobs relating to the sport but was best-known as a mechanic, builder, and crew chief. - Andy Belmont
Andy Belmont (born November 20, 1957 in Langhorne, Pennsylvania) is a stock car racer. Belmont began racing at an early age before moving south. In 1987, he was named the NASCAR Dash Series Rookie of the Year, then he won the championship the next year as a car owner. In 1989, Belmont made his Winston Cup debut at the Peak Performance 500, starting 35th and finishing 29th after his #04 Ford Thunderbird suffered braking failure. He would run that same race two years later, … - Marshall Teague
Marshall Teague (February 22, 1922 - February 11, 1959) was an American race car driver. He was nicknamed by NASCAR fans as the "King of the Beach" for his performances at the Daytona Beach Road Course. He walked into fellow Daytona Beach resident Smokey Yunick's "Best Damned Garage in Town", and launched Yunick's legendary NASCAR mechanic career. Teague competed in 23 NASCAR Grand National (now Nextel Cup) races from 1949 to 1952, winning seven of them. - Ken Squier
Ken Squier (born April 10 1935) is an American sportscaster and motorsports editor from Waterbury, Vermont. From 1979-1997, he was the lap-by-lap commentator for NASCAR on CBS and he was also a lap-by-lap commentator for TBS from the time they had rights to NASCAR until 2000. Squier was the first announcer to give lap-by-lap commentary on the Daytona 500 in 1979. He coined the term "The Great American Race" for the Daytona 500, … - David Hobbs
David Hobbs (b. June 9, 1939) is a British former racing driver currently employed as a SPEED Channel commentator. Hobbs was born in Royal Leamington Spa, England just months before the outbreak of World War II. He has a vast, 30-year history of international driving experience at all levels of motor sports, including sports cars, touring cars, Indy cars, IMSA and Formula One. He has participated in the Indianapolis 500, 24 Hours of Daytona, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. - Tommy Baldwin Jr.
Tommy Baldwin Jr. (born October 27,1966 in Bellport, New York) is the competition Director for Bill Davis Racing in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. He is also the crew chief for Michael Waltrip in the Nextel Cup series. His father, the late Tom Baldwin Sr., is a former champion NASCAR modified driver. Baldwin himself briefly pursued a racing career before becoming a mechanic. He attempted the Virginia is for Lovers 200 in the Craftsman Truck Series in 1998, … - Ramo Stott
Ramo Stott (born April 6, 1934) is a former NASCAR Winston Cup driver from Keokuk, Iowa. His greatest NASCAR accomplishment was winning the pole for the 1976 Daytona 500. He raced part-time in 35 starts between 1967 to 1977. His highest career finish was second at Talladega. - Mark Gibson
Mark Gibson (born August 14, 1957 in Winder, Georgia), is a racing car driver in the ARCA RE/MAX Series. A three-time winner, he drives the #59 Williams Brothers Lumber Company Chevy (sometimes Pontiac) and is a former Rookie of the Year in ARCA. When he is not racing, his primary occupation is a fabricator. He has also run in NASCAR on selected occasions, his last attempt being an unsuccessful bid in qualifying for the 1999 Daytona 500. - Bob Said
Boris "Bob" Said (May 5, 1932 in New York City - March 24, 2002 in Los Angeles) was a racing driver from the United States. Boris was the first American to win a road race in Europe after WWII - the 1953 Grand Prix of Rouen. He participated in the first Formula One United States Grand Prix at Sebring on December 12, 1959. He spun off on the first lap and scored no World Championship points. - Rodney Orr
Rodney Orr (died February 14, 1994) was a NASCAR driver. Originally from Robbinsville, North Carolina, he lived in Palm Coast, Florida at the time of his death. He was the 1993 Goody's Dash Series champion. However, before he could gain mainstream success, Orr was killed in practice before the 1994 Daytona 500. He gained attention again after the death of Dale Earnhardt when his autopsy photos as well as pop star Lisa Lopes were displayed on the internet. - Ralph Sheheen
Ralph Sheheen (born on August 23, 1964 in Utica, New York) is currently a pit reporter for "NASCAR on TNT", an announcer for AMA motocross and supercross on the SPEED Channel, as well as an announcer for many other minor racing series' on the Speed Channel. Sheheen's work at SPEED included anchoring "SPEEDNews", and being the lap-by-lap announcer for the World of Outlaws' Knoxville Nationals. - Swede Savage
David Earl "Swede" Savage, Jr. (August 26, 1946 - July 2, 1973) was an American race car driver. Born in San Bernardino, California, Savage began Soap Box Derby racing at the age of five. He moved up to racing quarter midget cars then at age twelve to Go-Kart racing. By his late teens he was racing competitively with motorcycles and by the late 1960s was driving a Lola in the Can-Am racing series. In 1968 and 1969 he also raced in NASCAR events. - Brock Yates
Brock Yates was executive editor of "Car and Driver", an American automotive magazine. He was a pit reporter for CBS' coverage of certain NASCAR Nextel Cup (then Winston) series races in the 1980s, including the Daytona 500. He was also one of two commentators on the TNN show "American Sports Cavalcade" with Steve Evans. Paul Page and Don Garlits appeared on the show, but it was primarily Brock and Steve. - Shorty Rollins
Lloyd George "Shorty" Rollins (April 3, 1929 - December 28, 1998) Lloyd George Rollins nicknamed "Shorty", born in Granbury, Texas was the first official NASCAR Rookie of the Year. He began stock car racing in Corpus Christi, Texas. The great success achieved there led him to Fayetteville, North Carolina and to NASCAR Grand National. His rookie year 1958, he had 1 win, 12 top five finishes and 22 top ten finishes in 29 starts with car owner Spook Crawford.
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