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Cale Yarborough
William Caleb "Cale" Yarborough (born March 27, 1939), is an American farmer, businessman and former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner. He is one of only two drivers in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships. He was the second NASCAR driver to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated (the first was Curtis Turner on the February 26, 1968 issue). His 83 wins tie him with Jimmie Johnson for sixth on the all-time NASCAR Cup Series winner's list (behind Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip, who are tied for fourth with 84). His 14.82% winning percentage is the ninth best of all-time and third among those with 500 or more starts. Yarborough won the Daytona 500 four times; his first win coming in 1968 for the Wood Brothers, the second in 1977 for Junior Johnson, and back-to-back wins in 1983 and 1984 for Ranier-Lundy Racing. Yarborough is a three-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Driver of the Year Award (1977, 1978, 1979).
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Born
1939-03-27
Birth Place
Timmonsville, South Carolina, U.S.
Awards
1967 Grand National Series Most Popular Driver International Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee (1993) National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame Inductee (1994) Motorsports Hall of Fame of America Inductee (1994) Court of Legends Inductee at Charlotte Motor Speedway (1996) 3-Time National Motorsports Press Association Driver of the Year (1977, 1978, 1979) 1977 American Driver of the Year South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame inductee (1978) Talladega Walk of Fame inductee (1996) Named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers ( 1998 ) NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee (2012)
Achievements
1976 , 1977 , 1978 Winston Cup Series Champion 1984 IROC Champion 1968 , 1977 , 1983 , 1984 Daytona 500 Winner 1968, 1973 , 1974 , 1978 , 1982 Southern 500 Winner 1978 , 1984 Winston 500 Winner 1985 Talladega 500 Winner Holds Winston Cup Series modern era record for most poles in a season (14 poles in 1980 )
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The Time the Daytona 500 Turned Into a Wild Wrestling Match Between Cale Yarborough and the Allison Brothers

In NASCAR, beef between drivers is supposed to be settled on the race track. May the fastest man win, right?. But sometimes tempers spill over to after the checkered flag has been waved. There’s been no shortage of verbal confrontations on pit row, trash talk during post-race interviews, and even physical fights after the engines turn off and the dust settles. Maybe the most famous post-race feud went down at the Daytona 500 in 1979, when a simple car race morphed into a wild wrestling match between NASCAR legends.
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