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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
One of Yarborough’s most famous moments in NASCAR came right after he won his third and final championship. Yarborough was racing for the lead with Donnie Allison in the 1979 Daytona 500 when ...
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.
Early in the 1979 Daytona 500, Bobby, his brother Donnie and rival Cale Yarborough tangled early in the race. Donnie led the second half of the race while Yarborough made up his lost laps through caution periods. By the time there were eight laps to go, Yarborough reached second place and set his eyes on passing Donnie.
Yarborough’s “wildest race,” the 1984 Winston 500 at Talladega, featured eight drivers who qualified faster than 200 mph in those pre-restrictor plate days and Cale earned the pole at 202.662.