R.I.P. Cale Yarborough passed away Sunday.

Cale Yarborough, three-time NASCAR Champion in '70s, dies at 84.

Dec 31, 2023

Cale Yarborough, considered one of NASCAR's all-time greatest drivers and the first to win three consecutive Cup titles, died Sunday at the age of 84.
Yarborough's crowning achievements include four Daytona 500 victories and five Southern 500 wins at his home track of Darlington Raceway.
Yarborough competed in NASCAR's top series for more than four decades, making his debut in the 1957 Southern 500 and closing his career in Atlanta in 1988. He won his final race in Charlotte in 1985 and had 319 career top-10 finishes and 69 pole positions. A three-time Driver of the Year award winner, Yarborough was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2012.

 

But one of his most famous moments came in the 1979 Daytona 500, the first to be televised live flag to flag across the country. Yarborough crashed while racing with Donnie Allison on the final lap for the win. The two drivers got out of their wrecked cars to fight, Allison's brother, Bobby, pulled over to join the scrap, and it was two Allison brothers versus Yarborough as Richard Petty crossed the finish line first.
It was a breakthrough moment for NASCAR, which because of a snowstorm on the East Coast was being shown on live television to its largest audience ever.

 

Allison, Yarborough fight at 1979 Daytona 500
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwh4jqd6HMI

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