Darrell Waltrip

Darrell Lee Waltrip is an American motorsports analyst, author, national television broadcaster, and former racing driver. He is also a threetime NASCAR Cup Series champion and a threetime NASCAR Cup Series runnerup . Posting a modern NASCAR series record oftop five finishes in 1983 andtop five finishes both in 1981 and 1986, Waltrip won 84 NASCAR Cup Series races, including the 1989 Daytona 500, a record five in the CocaCola 600 , and a track and Series record for any driver at Bristol Motor Speedway with. Those victories tie him with Bobby Allison for fourth on the NASCARs alltime wins list in the Cup Series and place him second to Jeff Gordon for the most wins in NASCARs modern era. He is ranked second for alltime pole positions with 59, including alltime highs withon short tracks and eight on road courses. Competing in 809 Cup starts over four decades andyears , he has scored 271 Top 5s and 390 Top 10s. Winning 19,886,666.00 in posted earnings, he became the

Waltrip was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, February 5, 1947. Starting his driving career in Gokarts at age 12, Waltrip entered his first stock car race just four years later. Waltrip and his father built a 1936 Chevrolet coupe and headed to a local dirt track near their Owensboro home. The first night out was far from a success as the youngster, barely old enough to drive on the street, Waltrip slammed the wall and heavily damaged the coupe. Waltrip soon left the dirt and found his niche on asphalt where the smoothness he learned in the karts proved a valuable asset.

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