
Fireball Roberts
Giving a racing driver the nickname 'Fireball' in those days was clearly tempting fate. He had accumulated 33 wins, including the 1962 Daytona 500, in a career that spanned 16 seasons before his untimely death in 1964 at Charlotte Motor Speedway when those fates finally noticed the irony and conspired to arrange a suitably unpleasant demise for our man. ...continue reading