Rob Moroso
Rob Moroso was the 1989 Busch Series champion and the 1990 Winston Cup Rookie of the Year, a wealthy young driver with genuine talent who had just begun…
Category: Driver Profiles
Butch Lindley
Butch Lindley was a short-track ace who won back-to-back NASCAR Sportsman Division championships in 1977 and 1978, plus six Busch Series races. The Greenville native was one of…
James Hylton
James Hylton was the 1966 Grand National Rookie of the Year and a two-time Cup winner who famously raced into his seventies, competing in ARCA as an independent…
Grant Adcox
Grant Adcox was a Tennessee independent who raced in Winston Cup through the 1980s, a regular in the garage who competed against the sport's biggest names with a…
Slick Johnson
Russell 'Slick' Johnson made 125 Winston Cup starts as an independent driver from North Carolina, a journeyman who raced hard against better-funded teams through the late 1970s and…
Kenny Irwin
Kenny Irwin was the 1998 Winston Cup Rookie of the Year for Robert Yates Racing. He never won a Cup race – his two national-series victories came in…
Tony Roper
Tony Roper was a veteran short-track racer from Missouri who had worked his way up to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, living the journeyman driver's dream of competing…
Blaise Alexander
Blaise Alexander was an ARCA star who twice finished runner-up in the series championship and was moving up to the Busch Series. The Pennsylvania native had a reputation…
Carlos Pardo
Carlos Pardo was the 2004 NASCAR Mexico Series champion and one of the series' most popular drivers. Racing in front of his home fans at Puebla, he was…
J.D. McDuffie
J.D. McDuffie was NASCAR's beloved independent, making 653 Winston Cup starts over 28 years in his own underfunded No. 70 without ever winning. Fans adored him precisely because…