‘Humpy Wheeler, NASCAR's Greatest Showman, Dies at 86’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/sports/autoracing/humpy-wheeler-dead.html

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Already read it in another article.

NASCAR’s greatest promoter that helped it become so successful in the 80s to about 2007 or so. Humpy retired and the series has slipped since.

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The series started slipping when Hendrick teams started winning events nearly every weekend of a season.

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