# Any NASCAR historians out there?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 19, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nascar-historians-out-there/46393 "2000-12-19T18:54:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nascar-historians-out-there/46393/1 "2000-12-19T18:54:25Z")

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I was dabbling in a little bit of [Redneck Haiku](http://www.ilovebacon.com/jokes/110900c.shtml) and came up with this one:

Leroy Yarbrough  
Was the best goddamned driver  
Ever to kill his mom

And then I got to thinking about it. Did Leroy Yarbrough _really_ kill his mother, as I learned as a mere eight-ounce pop-top to my father’s Tall Boy, or was Dad just joshin’ me?

As a bit of background, Leroy Yarbrough (not to be confused with Cale Yarb **o** rough) was a very talented driver who ran about the same time as Richard Petty, Cale, and the Allison Boys in the mid-to-late sixties. Then he disappeared while the others shot to superstardom in the 70’s and 80’s. There isn’t a lot of information about Leroy on the Internet, unless I’m misspelling his name.

I don’t think this inquiry is solid enough to be a GQ, so I’m just asking this: anyone remember Leroy?

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nascar-historians-out-there/46393/2 "2000-12-19T19:01:08Z")

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I remember LeRoy, but know nothing about him killing his mom. I’m not a NASCAR historin, I just was following it when the current guys’ dads, granddads, and (now) great granddads were driving.

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**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nascar-historians-out-there/46393/3 "2000-12-19T21:55:54Z")

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NASCAR History:

Unce upon a tahme, some 'shiners decided to have a rayace. Sumeune wun. Then sumune else got STP to pay him to put a sticker on his cayar. Then sumune made a track. Then sumune made a buncha bucks making people pay to wayatch people drive in circles. Then sumune rekked and everyune wanted to wayatch even more.  
Any questions?