Bill Elliott
William Clyde Elliott, also known as Awesome Bill from Dawsonville, or Million Dollar Bill, is an American former professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 23 Chevrolet Camaro for GMS Racing. He won the 1988 Winston Cup Championship and garnered 44 wins in that series. Elliott won NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Award a record 16 times. He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007.
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William Clyde Elliott, also known as Awesome Bill from Dawsonville, or Million Dollar Bill, is an American former professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 23 Chevrolet Camaro for GMS Racing. He won the 1988 Winston Cup Championship and garnered 44 wins in that series, including two Daytona 500 victories in 1985 and 1987. Elliott won NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Award a record 16 times. He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007. Elliott has two daughters, Starr and Brittany, and one son, William Clyde II. Elliott’s son Chase is also a NASCAR Cup Series championship winner. The 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion and the 2020 NASCAR CupSeries champion, Chase Elliott, currently competes in the Cup Series for Hendrick Motorsports in the no. 9 Chevrolet. He is the youngest of three boys and is the son of Erving Elliott Jr. and Mildred Reece. His father George created a lumber company and loved racing, and later created a speed shop where Bill’s brothers, Ernie and Dan, worked. He has two sons, Starr Elliott and Brittany Elliott, and a daughter, Brittany Elliott. He also has a son who is a professional golfer and golfer, and has a daughter who is an avid golfer. He holds the track record for fastest qualifying speed at Talladega at 212. 809 miles per hour and Daytona International Speedway at 210.
364 milesper hour. He made his first Winston Cup Series start at Rockingham in 1976. Elliott made his debut in the final race of the final season of the 1982 Winston Cup season. He finished second to race winner David Pearson. In the fall of 1980, Elliott gained his first major sponsor in the form of USD 500 from Harry Melling of Melling Racing in the 1980 National 500 at Charlotte. In 1981, he had one Top 5 and seven Top 10 finishes in the 1981 season, including the team’s first pole in the Rebel 500 in the American Life Life 400. In 1983, Elliott won his first race at Riverside 500 at Riverside. Elliott also finished second four times including the Daytona 500 on his way to a third-place finish in the championship standings. In 1984, he won three races to the tune of USD 400,000 – the American High Life 400, the Riverside 400, and the Western Western 500. In 1985, Elliott made history by winning the first ever Winston Million, a million dollar bonus to any driver that could win three out of the four crown jewel races of NASCAR: The Daytona 500 at Daytona, the Winston 500 at Talladadega, the World 600 at Charlotte, and the Southern 500 at Darlington. In 2002, the Georgia State Legislature declared October 8 as Bill Elliott Day in the state of Georgia. He withdrew his name from the ballot for that award after winning it in 2002. Elliott finished second in the 2013 Daytona 500.
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