Yarborough, Cale

Yarborough, Cale
in full William Caleb Yarborough

born March 27, 1939, Timmonsville, S.C., U.S.

U.S. stock-car racer.

He began racing stock cars in the early 1960s. He was the first to win the NASCAR championships for three consecutive years (1976–78). He also won the Daytona 500 three times (1968, 1977, 1983) and the Atlanta 500 four times (1967, 1968, 1974, 1981).

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▪ American automobile racer
byname of  William Caleb Yarborough 
born March 27, 1939, Timmonsville, S.C., U.S.

      American stock-car racing driver who was the first to win the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing ( NASCAR) championship three consecutive years.

      Yarborough began driving stock cars in the early 1960s, and in 1968 he won four NASCAR races, including the Daytona 500 and the Atlanta 500, the former of which he also won in 1977, 1983, and 1984 and the latter of which he also won in 1967, 1974, and 1981. After unsuccessfully driving United States Automobile Club (USAC) championship cars (1971–72), he won his first NASCAR championship in 1976, repeating in 1977 and 1978. In 1977 he was the first NASCAR driver to start and finish 30 of 30 races. Yarborough retired in 1988. His autobiography, Cale: The Hazardous Life and Times of America's Greatest Stock Car Driver (cowritten with William Neely), appeared in 1986. Yarborough was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1993.

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