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Tim Flock Deserves To Be In The NASCAR Hall Of Fame

Tim Flock is quite familiar to many older race fans. A fan favorite, Flock was the 1952 and 1955 NASCAR National Champion and has 40 Cup wins to his credit. I’m asking all of you to nominate Tim Flock to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. He deserves to be in the inaugural induction. Read below what seven-time NASCAR Champion Richard Petty said about Tim. I once heard Richard say that his idea of the perfect race car driver was Tim Flock. Included in this column are some of Tim’s statistics. I’d like to thank the Flock family and www.timflock.com.

Please to go www.nascarhall.com to nominate Julius Timothy “Tim” Flock for the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

“To me, he was a cool customer. You would see a bunch of them drivers running sideways and doing all. Tim would just be running around. When the race was over, Tim won. Them guys were still running sideways.” – Richard Petty, from ESPN Classic’s SportsCentury series

Here is some of Tim Flock’s impressive stock car statistics

2 Time NASCAR Grand National Champion-1952, & 1955 (now known as Sprint Cup)

40 NASCAR Grand National Wins
38 NASCAR Grand National Poles

The ONLY driver to win in every NASCAR division on Daytona Beach; (Beach Race)
1955-Grand National
1956-Modified Division
1956-Grand National
1957-Convertible Division

Holds FIVE world records for the Daytona Measured Mile;
1955-February 23 – 1939 Chevrolet modified, 137.405 m.p.h.
1955-February 24 – 1955 Chrysler 300, 130.293 m.p.h.
1956-February 23 – 1956 Chrysler 300B, 135.747 m.p.h.
1957-February 20 – 1957 Mercury Convertible, 130.766 m.p.h.

Speed Age Magazine Driver of the Year (1952)
1955 NASCAR Most Popular Driver
National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) Hall of Fame (1972)
State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame (1972)
Hall of Honors, New Jersey (1990)
International Motorsports Hall of Fame (1991)
Charlotte Motor Speedway Court of Legends (1994)
Rotary Club of Daytona Beach Stock Car Hall of Fame (1995)
Lowe’s Motor Speedway Walk of Fame (1996)
North Carolina Motor Sports Hall of Fame (1998)
Named as one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers (1998)
Fleming NJ Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (1999)
Sports Illustrated’s 11th Greatest Driver of the Century (2000)
State of Georgia 30th Top Athlete of the Century (2000)
Georgia Sports Hall of Fame (2002)
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (2006)

First NASCAR Driver to win both Daytona and the series championship in the same year. (1952).

Highest winning percentage (21.2 percent — 40 victories in 189 starts) in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history.

Flock holds the record for the most pole positions in a single year (19, in 1955).

Held the record for the most victories in a single year (18 in 45 races) for 12 years. (1955-1967) (still 2nd most wins in one season-broken by Richard Petty in 1967)

Winner of NASCAR’s only sports car race, driving a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing (1955).

Tim Flock passed away on March 31, 1998 from cancer at the age of 73. Even after ten years he is still missed in the NASCAR garage.

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