
Buddy Baker, the first man to win NASCAR’s “Big Four” race contests – Daytona, Talladega, Darlington and Charlotte – will be one of the many legendary former racers to participate in the Love Chevrolet Spring Festival at the Columbia Speedway on Saturday, April 25. The Spring Festival is free to the public and will run from
Baker, a son of the two-time national champion Buck Baker, was one of the more spectacular competitors the sport has ever known becoming the first driver to break the 200 mph barrier in a Ray Fox prepared Dodge at Talladega Super Speedway on March 24, 1970. Before that, he competed in his first career race on the half-mile clay oval.
Although Baker has retired from a racing career that spanned 34 seasons, he operates the
Baker, who scored 17 major speedway NASCAR victories, and 19 overall, is a member of the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame, the National Motorsports Association Hall of Fame, the International Motorsports Hall of Fame and the Charlotte (Lowes) Motor Speedway Court of Legends.
Other former racers to join Baker at the Spring Festival include Ned Jarrett, “L’il Bud" Moore, Charlie Glotzbach, Haskell Willingham, Paul Lewis, Brownie King, D.K. Ulrich, Neil “Soapy” Castles.
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