Bobby Isaac

ABOUT BOBBY ISAAC

International Motorsports Hall of Fame member won a NASCAR championship and set world land speed records.

He drove the Chevy of another racing great, Smokey Yunick , at the 1963 National 400, which first got him noticed.

He set a NASCAR record by going around the Talladega Superspeedway, in a closed-circuit run, at more than 201 mph, and then drove rocket-powered cars for land speed records.

He was born in a large, working class family, dropping out of school at age six to go work at a sawmill.

He was named alongside Dale Jarrett as one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998.