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Person Image Role Notes Dale Earnhardt: Driver and owner: 7-time Cup drivers champion, 76 race wins, 281 top 5s, 428 top 10s, 22 poles, 1998 Daytona 500 winner, 3-time Coca-Cola 600 winner, 1995 Brickyard 400 winner, 3-time Southern 500 winner, 3-time All-Star Race winner, leads drivers in wins at Atlanta Motor Speedway (9) and Talladega Superspeedway (10), 1979 Rookie of the Year, founder of ...
Scott was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on January 30, 2015. Loosely based on him, a fictionalized version of Scott was given a minor role in the 2017 Pixar film Cars 3 . He is portrayed by Isiah Whitlock Jr. in the form of an anthropomorphized car, with his name changed to River Scott.
Petty was born in Randleman, North Carolina. [2] He made his major-league stock car debut at the age of 18. He won the first race he entered, the 1979 Daytona ARCA 200, in one of his father's old 1978 Dodge Magnum race cars, [3] at the time, Petty became the youngest driver to win a major-league stock car race.
NASCAR committed to building a Hall of Fame and on March 6, 2006, the City of Charlotte was selected as the location. Ground was broken for the $160 million facility on January 26, 2007, and it officially opened on May 11, 2010, [1] with the inaugural class inducted the day following the 2010 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.
Rudd was born in South Norfolk, Virginia (now Chesapeake), the son of Margaret (née McMannen) and Alvin R. Rudd Sr., the president of Al Rudd Auto Parts. [2] [3] [4] He began racing as a teenager in karting and motocross, but did not attempt stock car racing until he was eighteen years old, when he made his NASCAR debut at North Carolina Speedway in 1975, driving the No. 10 Ford for family ...
The son of a legendary, trailblazing former NASCAR driver passed away earlier this week. Wendell Scott Jr., the son of former Hall of Fame driver Wendell Scott, died this week. Tributes have been ...
On October 13, 2010, Jarrett was selected to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame as one of the 5 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees of the 2011 class. He was inducted into the 2011 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame on May 23, 2011.
International Motorsports Hall of Fame (2009) NASCAR Hall of Fame (2024) NASCAR Cup Series career; 242 races run over 20 years: Best finish: 16th (1967) First race: 1966 National 500 : Last race: 1988 Champion Spark Plug 400 : First win: 1968 Carolina 500 : Last win: 1978 Dixie 500