Legends of NASCAR - Bobby Isaac Traditional Cache
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Legends of NASCAR - Bobby Isaac
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This series is in honor of the legends of
the sport of NASCAR racing who have passed away. There is something
for everyone (the numbers hounds or the history buffs). The series
is meant to be done from east to west. Please park completely off
of the road and use caution at all times. Most weekends, there
isn't more than a handfull of cars along this road but 2 weekends a
year this becomes one of the largest cities in the
State!
Born: August 1, 1932 Died: August 14, 1977
Home: Catawba, NC Bobby Isaac won 37 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
events and the 1970 Winston Cup championship. In that same year,
Isaac set a world closed-course record when he ran 201.104 mph at
Talladega Superspeedway. In September of 1971, Isaac set 28 world
class records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Many of his records
exist to this day. Isaac won 50 pole positions in his NASCAR
career. Bobby Isaac drove Smokey Yunick's Chevrolet in the 1963
National 400 at Charlotte, giving it a whale of a ride before a
tire blew. Afterwards, Yunick said of Isaac; "He's a race driver. I
know that." Yunick's endorsement impressed Ray Nichels, and he put
Isaac in his Dodge for the 1964 season, and the young driver was on
his way to greatness. Isaac's name would be associated with Dodges
during his stellar career. Isaac drove Nord Krauskopf's K&K
Insurance Dodge to the Winston Cup title in 1970. He won 11 races,
and his car accounted for nearly 54 percent of the total points
which earned Dodge the manufacturers championship, breaking a 7
year stranglehold by Ford. Isaac, Krauskopf and legendary crew
chief Harry Hyde, decided to cap the season by going to Talladega
Superspeedway, the worlds fastest track, to try for a closed-course
record. On a raw, blustery day (November 24, 1970), Isaac circled
the track at 201.104 mph to trump Buddy Baker's old record of
200.447 mph. Isaac felt that this was the pinnacle of his career.
Yet, in September 1971, he went on to set 28 world class records on
the Bonneville Salt Flats in his Dodge. Many of his records still
exist to this day. Bobby Isaac was born in 1932, a kid in a large
North Carolina family. At 12 he went to work in a sawmill where he
saved his money until he had enough to buy a pair of new shoes.
Isaac tired of working at the sawmill, and that's when he decided
that he wanted to make a living driving race cars. And eventually
Bobby Isaac did, winning 37 NASCAR races. Isaac could now buy all
the shoes he ever wanted. The 1970 Winston Cup season gave Bobby
Isaac 11 more career wins. The points race was heating up and in
the second to the last race of the season, Bobby Isaac secured the
championship for the first time. He continued driving for K&K
until 1972 earning 5 more wins and setting 28 track speed records.
In 1973 Bobby was driving for Bud Moore. On August 12, during the
middle of the Talladega 500, Bobby Isaac, was leading the race when
he pulled his car off the track and into the pits and quit. He
simply pulled in and got out of the car and quit. It was said that
he had heard a voice telling him to get out of the car. Isaac made
some comeback attempts in 1974 through 1976. He drove his final
Winston Cup race in 1976 for Banjo Matthews. While racing in a Late
Model Sportsman event at Hickory Bobby Isaac once again pulled his
car off the track without warning. He suffered a heart attack and
died later at a local hospital.
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