Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Yarborough was born to Julian and Annie Yarborough in the tiny, unincorporated community of Sardis near Timmonsville, South Carolina, the oldest of three sons.Julian was a tobacco farmer, [12] cotton gin operator, and store owner who was killed in a private airplane crash when Cale was twelve years of age.
Three-time NASCAR Cup champion Cale Yarborough, a Hall of Fame racer known for his toughness, has died at age 84, the auto racing body announced Sunday. No cause of death was given.
NASCAR Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough, who won three consecutive Cup championships from 1976-78 and is tied for sixth all-time with 83 career wins, has died at age 84. RIP to one of the sport's ...
NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough has died. He was 84. Yarborough is one of the most successful NASCAR drivers ever with 83 Cup Series wins and three championships. Yarborough won those championships ...
Cale Yarborough Motorsports was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series team that ran from 1987 to 2000. The team accomplished 13 top fives, 32 top 10s and three poles in total. The team accomplished 13 top fives, 32 top 10s and three poles in total.
Yarborough retired as a full-time driver in 1988, but remained a team owner for another decade after that. Jeff Hammond, a FOX NASCAR broadcaster, was a two-time championship crew chief for Darrell Waltrip who worked on Yarborough's car in the late 1970s. Yarborough was a talented driver who put his all into the racing.
Rookie driver Buren Skeen died after two cars ran into the side of his car in the early laps. Sam McQuagg was leading the race, when Cale Yarborough tried to muscle past McQuagg for the lead. Yarborough flew over the guardrail, rolled around six times, and ended up at the end of the parking lot by a light post.
NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough has died, the racing company announced Dec. 31.He was 84. In his career, the Hall of Famer won three NASCAR Cup Series championships and was a four-time Daytona 500 ...