David Pearson

NASCAR Winston Cup

Career: 1960-86

Pearson, a three-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion, is second on NASCAR Winston Cup's all-time win list with 105, second only to Richard Petty.

Pearson, or the "Silver Fox" as he became known, set an unprecedented superspeedway qualifying record by winning 11 straight pole positions at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway form 1973-78. He won the 1976 Daytona 500. Pearson ranks second on NASCAR's all-time pole positions earned with 113, fourth in laps led with 25,425 and sixth overall in races led with 329 races. He won 11 of the 18 NASCAR Winston Cup events he entered in 1973. Pearson won 43 races from 1972-79 while driving for the famous Wood Brothers.

For his efforts, he has been inducted into the National Motor Sports Press Association's Hall of Fame at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway in 1991. Two years later, in 1993, Pearson was inducted in the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega Ala. Then in 1995, Pearson was inducted into Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway's Court of Legends and in 1998, Pearson was also inducted in the Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway's Heroes of Bristol.