Banjo Matthews
| Banjo Matthews | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | February 14, 1932 Akron, Ohio |
||||||
| Died | October 2, 1996 (aged 64) | ||||||
| Cause of death | heart and respiratory disease | ||||||
| Awards | Inducted in the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1998 | ||||||
| NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career | |||||||
| 51 races run over 10 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 10th - 1960 Grand National season | ||||||
| First race | 1952 Southern 500 (Darlington) | ||||||
| Last race | 1963 World 600 (Charlotte) | ||||||
|
|||||||
Edwin Keith "Banjo" Matthews (February 14, 1932, Akron, Ohio – October 2, 1996, Hendersonville, North Carolina) was a NASCAR driver, car owner and builder.
Contents |
[edit] Career
[edit] Driver
He was also a successful Modified driver. He made 51 starts in the NASCAR Grand National (now Sprint Cup) Series, with a best finish of second.[1][2] He won three poles, one each at the Daytona Beach Road Course, Daytona International Speedway, and Atlanta International Raceway.
[edit] Car owner/builder
He served as car owner for several of the biggest names in NASCAR in the 1960s and 70s including Fireball Roberts, A. J. Foyt, Junior Johnson, Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough.[3] He is best known, however, for having constructed (with the assistance of Holman Moody in his first carbuilding years) many cars in the 1970s and 80s, including 72 percent of the winning cars in the top NASCAR division from 1974 to 1985.[1]
[edit] Award
- He was inducted in the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1998.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Circle Track magazine, Retrieved April 1, 2007
- ^ Driver's statistics at racing-reference.info, Retrieved April 2, 2007
- ^ Owner's statistics at racing-reference.info, Retrieved April 1, 2007
 |
This biographical article related to NASCAR is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
