Racing pioneer won 21 races, which matches NASCAR Hall of Famers Benny Parsons, Bobby Labonte.
this year. Only a handful of eligible drivers have won more than 20 Cup races and are not in the hall.Smith, a resident of Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he had operated an automatic transmission shop for decades, died in 2001 at the age of 78.//Smith raced when safety was largely an afterthought and when a rough-handling car could leave a driver’s hands bloody after 100 laps on a bumpy dirt track.
“I don’t believe they could go out there and sleep in the car all night and get in the race car, go racing, get in the truck and tow the car from Charleston to Jacksonville to Savannah to Martinsville and run a long race the next day. I don’t think there are many of them who love it enough to stay with it like we did then. Most of them are in it for the money and the glory. Back then you were in it because you loved it.
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