Cale Yarborough

The only NASCAR Cup Series driver to win three consecutive championships (1976, '77 and '78), Cale Yarborough earned 83 NASCAR Cup Series victories and 70 pole positions in a career that spanned four decades.

Yarborough was second on the list of most laps led (31,776), led 340 races and run 171,927 miles. He is a four-time winner of the Daytona 500 and a five-time winner of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. In 1984, he became the first driver to qualify for the Daytona 500 at more than 200 mph. His 14 pole positions in 1980 and five consecutive victories in 1976 still stand as single-season records.

Yarborough was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1993, the National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Court of Legends at Lowe's Motor Speedway in 1996.