77 finishing 34th in the 2005 owner points, although Bawel was shutting down his team and needed a driver to pick up his team's owner points. 1960  R. White During the summer, Waltrip decided to make changes to the No. In 2000, he participated in the Boston Marathon. 1952  T. Flock On 5-2-1947 Darrell Waltrip (nickname: Darrell) was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States . He is currently serving as a colour analyst for Fox Sports. Still, Waltrip had a huge and devoted fan following. Robert Lynn 'Bobby' Waltrip passed away today. The victory also made Waltrip the 22nd driver to win a race in all three NASCAR national touring series. For decades, the wife of FOX analyst and NASCAR Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip has equipped drivers with Bible verses prior to Cup events. 55. In October 2011, Waltrip, Joy, and Australian Leigh Diffey traveled to Australia to host Speed's coverage of the Supercheap Auto Parts Bathurst 1000 race held at the famous Mount Panorama Circuit. GREAT NEWS!

Waltrip won only one NASCAR Winston Cup race in 1976, the Virginia 500, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia, but in 1977 and 1978, working with legendary NASCAR crew chief Buddy Parrott, he won six times each year, including his first of four career victories at the Talladega Superspeedway, in Talladega, AL, on May 1, 1977, and his first of a five career victories in the series' longest race, a grueling 600 mile race, the Coca-Cola 600 (formerly the World 600), May 28, 1978. In 2003, Waltrip won a rain-shortened Daytona 500 and also took victory at the EA Sports 500 at Talladega (his only non-Daytona win), while running in the top-five for most of the season before falling back to 15th in points. Years later, Waltrip would be voted (by NASCAR fans) "Most Popular Driver", two years in a row, (1989, 1990). Waltrip finished the first year of his second stint as owner-driver 8th in the overall NASCAR Winston Cup points championship, after being as high as 3rd place after 14 races. Waltrip has been a design consultant on some of the newer tracks including the Kentucky Motor Speedway, and the Nashville Superspeedway. 00 driver) to take over the No. Waltrip was quoted after the race as saying "I hope he chokes on it", referring to the $200,000 that Wallace collected for the victory.

The interview took place during a safety car session after Murphy had exited the car during a driver change. 3 drifted low on the track, probably attempting a blocking maneuver so that either Michael Waltrip or Dale Earnhardt, Jr., could win the race. While the year was one of Waltrip's most profitable, his results continued to fall off. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. At the 1997 UAW-GM Quality 500, Waltrip failed to qualify for the first time in over 20 years as Terry Labonte also failed to make the race. That meant intense pressure to win.

Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. [10] After a 30th-place finish in the Daytona 500, Waltrip became the first driver in series history to go into the second race of the season with a negative number of points (−27). 1974  R. Petty He had a then unprecedented streak over two seasons, of 40 races, without a DNF, all with in-house engines. This time he was in the DiGard Racing Buick Waltrip had vacated a year earlier. As the first NASCAR race covered "flag to flag" on national television, Cale Yarborough, and Donnie Allison, while battling for the lead on the last lap, came together and crashed hard, taking each other out, in the third turn. 00 team for the balance of the season. Waltrip then made hard contact with the outside concrete retaining wall once again into oncoming traffic. Darrell Waltrip confirmed his pending retirement at Bristol, and he did so in his own way. Waltrip has a building which holds many of the race cars he drove throughout his career. Waltrip was still under contract with Johnson for the 1986 season, but following the year he was able to break the contract in a unique way. They fly hot fast, and are often in plain view for everyone to see. Darrell Waltrip Early Life.

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