RIP Cale Yarborough, NASCAR Hall of Famer

Hate to give my former site extra clicks, but already posted in the Motorsports thread ...

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2...hree-time-cup-series-champion-dies-at-age-84/

 

During this morning's walk I was workshopping a chat about old timey racing and Cale was one of the names I brought up.

As a kid Cale Yarborough was one of the first racing names that stuck.

 

A good ol' boy racer to his rest. RIP.

 

There was a time in NASCAR when everybody knew which driver you were referring to when you just used their first name or nickname.

Fonty, Fireball, Curtis, Junior, Lee, Ned, Richard, David, Cale, LeeRoy, Darrell, Junior, Bobby, Donnie, Wendell, Handsome Harry, Million Dollar Bill, Neil, Ricky, Davey, etc.

That would be a fun Spotify.

 

49ers struggling with the Commanders. Not looking like SB favorites.

 

RIP to no neck Cale.
He was a heck of a short track driver, and the qualifying lap/flip at Talladega is legendary.
He gave Waltrip the nickname Jaws, and helped put NASCAR on the map with the fight.

 

RIP. I wish we'd heard more from him in his later years. Pearson wasn't at the track, but I feel like he'd talk. Petty is still there nearly every week. After his team went belly up, Cale just walked away.

 

Ah….the old Hardees #28
Best eating in town, up and down, all around.

 

Pure-D racer.

To his rest.

 

Cale Yarborough vs. the Allisons was the stuff of legend as well as the three-way battle for supremacy on the track between Yarborough, Petty and David Pearson. (A young Darrell Waltrip made it a Big Four later on.) (I also rooted for Pearson as a kid and would've worn his merch if there had been such a thing.)

The races at Texas World Speedway in College Station on ABC's Wide World of Sports might as well have been at Daytona or Talladega to me.