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William Caleb "Cale" Yarborough (March 27, 1939 – December 31, 2023) was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner, businessman, farmer, and rancher. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the first driver in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships, winning in 1976 , 1977 , and 1978 .
Yarborough also raced Indy cars for a few years after Ford stepped away temporarily from NASCAR in 1970 and he was 10th in the 1972 Indianapolis 500. CNN’s Jacob Lev contributed to this report.
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.
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 ...
Cale Yarborough was at the track hospital when LeeRoy was brought in. "He was burned on the hands and neck, and he was woozy from another lick on the head. He was the palest live man I've ever seen." [5] Yarbrough spent the next few months, June through November, in and out of the hospital with many different ailments and memory problems.
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.
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.
Bobby Allison holds race driver Cale Yarborough's foot after Yarborough kicked him following an argument Feb. 18, 1979 when Yarborough stopped his car during the final lap of the Daytona 500.