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That belt took off the top half of his thumb. At Evergreen Speedway for the sixth-ever NASCAR Trucks race (he won the third one), the man with the day job racing for Hendrick Motorsports was fiddling with an alternator belt when a crew member fired up the engine.

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He ran 763 Cup Series events from 1983 to 2013, winning four times and also suffering a YouTube's worth of CGI-looking crashes, from a Talladega barrel roll in 1995 to a Daytona Duels crash in '98 that is still perhaps the hardest hit I've ever witnessed live.īut Schrader is on this list because of something else I've seen in person: the large section of thumb missing from his left hand. and that's just the events we know about. As of now, he's scheduled to run 57 events over 17 different series, including SRX Thursday Night Thunder on ESPN. The man turned 68 on May 29, and how did he celebrate? By finishing fourth in the DIRTcar UMP Modifieds A-Main at Indiana's Lawrenceburg Speedway.

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Why? Because he has long been the epitome of the greatest compliment that any driver can bestow upon a colleague: He's a racer's racer. If this were a list of the beloved racers among their peers, Schrader - that's what everyone calls him, just Schrader - would be on this list, too. Until his death in 2017, he bristled whenever NASCAR media members used any sort of war or battle metaphors when referring to the action on the racetrack. One day, while on patrol in a Jeep with only one other soldier, Moore flushed out and captured an entire unit of Nazis, four officers and 15 enlisted men, for which he earned the first of his two Bronze Stars. Over the next 17 months, he fought under General George Patton throughout the Big Push into Europe, including Cherbourg, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, and his way across Germany and into Czechoslovakia, where he caught three enemy bullets in the left leg. As his friends and fellow Army draftees died around him, Moore nearly drowned when he stepped into an underwater crater. On June 6, 1944, 19-year-old Moore hit Utah Beach as part of the Allies' D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. The kingpin of NASCAR's highly underrated Spartanburg, South Carolina, posse, Moore never drove in a Cup Series event but became a legendary owner and mechanic, winning 63 races and a pair of championships over nearly four decades and earning election to the NASCAR Hall of Fame's second-ever class in 2011. So, without further ado, adieu, ahem, here are our picks for NASCAR's five toughest drivers. Their bones and muscle fibers seemingly made from the same steel used to construct their racing machines.

Those who could have just as easily fit walking the hallways of Avengers Tower as they did striding through the garage area at Darlington Raceway. I'm referring to the Paul Bunyans of stock car racing.

Instead, we present our first fast five, and it is a list of the dudes who would most likely break me in half if we did not include them on some sort of NASCAR 75 list very early on.

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We drop the green flag over our world 600-ish NASCAR 75 greatest lists not with the greatest drivers (we will get to that later this fall) or greatest champions (yes, we'll be doing that one, too). Without further ado, our 75 favorite things about NASCAR, celebrating 75 years of stock car racing. Top five mustaches? There can be only one, so maybe not. To celebrate, each week through the end of the season, Ryan McGee is presenting his top five favorite things about the sport. We are closing in on the final handful of weeks of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season, the stock car series' 75th-anniversary campaign. Top Fives: 75 things for NASCAR's 75th anniversary

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