Cale Yarborough

But this NASCAR throwback vintage era, NBC Sports did a, I watched that one-hour show, whatever it was in length, fantastic job.

You know, they had all these drivers, David Pearson and Cale Yarborough.

I don't know if you know anything about Wood Brothers, but these are the people who were at Le Mans, so with the Ford GT program.

I really, really enjoyed that very much.

So, you know.

Yeah.

And my first interview is going to be Cale Yarborough.

I thought it was going to be Greg Biffle, your favorite.

Then Ty Gibbs, he tried to become the fourth driver to win on their birthday all time in the NASCAR Cup Series.

Cale Yarborough did it twice in 1977 and 1983 at North Wilkesboro and Atlanta.

The late Kyle Busch did it twice in 2009 and 2021 at Richmond and Kansas.

And Matt Kenseth did it once in 2013, ironically in Las Vegas.

And it, there were times that you made people mad with what you were saying.

There was the whole Cale Yarborough jaws incident.

There was Richard Petty.

There was Bobby Allison.

Yeah

... you gotta understand, you gotta understand how my career evolved.

I love Cale Yarborough.

When I went to work for-

He wanted to make sure that you couldn't see any racing without buying a ticket.

Following the SunBank 24, it was back to Daytona for another 500 and another headline story in speed sport for Cale Yarborough.

Prior to the race, a gentleman saw me in my black WGI jacket and he introduced himself and volunteered to help if needed.

I kept his card thinking maybe I'd call this Tom Halloran guy someday.

But, uh, Oh, yeah.

You know, you just worked for Cale Yarborough.

He was an animal behind the wheel.

Just the toughest guy I ever worked for.

sheet metal on that passenger side

yep and uh benny parsons won the 73 championship by just a few points over kale yarborough who uh I don't think Cale won the race he might have.

I didn't research this before I started talking about it.

I'm doing this from memory.

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And I think I put a plan together to try to revitalize that and make it an asset that you'll be proud of, the state will be proud of.

and I can't help but remember when we inducted Cale Yarborough.

Now, I don't know if you all know who Cale Yarborough is, but he is on the Mount Rushmore of race car driving.

It's Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Cale Yarborough, and they'll probably debate that fourth spot, but he is a big deal.

And he sat there the day when he was inducted, And he told me, he said, the greatest honor of my life is even bigger than being in the NASCAR Hall of Fame is to be in my home state's Hall of Fame.

And he was tearing up when he did it.