David Pearson

Nicknamed the "Silver Fox", David Pearson won the NASCAR Cup Series championship an incredible three times, and was finished second on the all-time list of race wins, numbering to 105, behind only Richard Petty.

Pearson, further went on to set a Superspeedway qualifying record, when he won 11 consecutive pole positions at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, from 1973 till 1978. In 1976, Pearson also bagged the Daytona 500. With 105 wins, 366 top-10 finished and 113 pole positions earned, for which Pearson was ranked second in NASCAR's all-time list, as well as 25,425 laps led, for which he attained a fourth rank, and he was a further sixth in the list for 329 races led.

When he entered NASCAR in 1973, Pearson immediately proved himself to be a force to reckon with 11 wins out of the 18 NASCAR Cup Series events. From 1972 till 1979, while driving for the famous Wood Brothers, Pearson accumulated 43 race wins.

David Pearson retired from racing in 1986 and his has been honored with an induction in to the National Motorsports Press Association's Hall of Fame, Darlington Raceway, in 1991 and in 1993, he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega in Alabama. Then in 1995, Pearson was inducted into Lowe's Motor Speedway's Court of Legends, followed by an induction into the Bristol Motor Speedway's Heroes of Bristol, in 1998.