Buck Baker

The Baker family patriarch earned 46 NASCAR Cup Series victories, 44 pole positions and was the first back-to-back NASCAR Cup Series champion in 1956 and 1957.

A native of Charlotte, N.C., Buck Baker was a city bus driver before becoming a full-time racer. He was a three-time winner of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, pulling into the winner's circle in 1953, 1960 and 1964. Baker had 631 starts in his NASCAR Cup Series career. He ran the most laps and miles for three consecutive years, beginning in 1955.

Baker was inducted into the National Motorsports Press Association's Hall of Fame in 1982 and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1990. He went on to operate high-performance driving schools at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., and North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, N.C.