Yarborough also was a Golden Gloves boxer who competed in the welterweight division, and, during his senior year of high school, he became state champion. Yarborough attended the second Southern in Darlington, South Carolina, in as a young spectator without a ticket, and the experience helped build in him a love for motorsports that would lead to his greatest fame. He participated in his first race in Sumter, while still a teenager. In , when he was eighteen, he decided that he would drive in the Southern Yarborough had a friend at the courthouse fill out a fake birth certificate for him.
For Yarborough the s were a time of immersion into his chosen sport. He honed his skills racing on short tracks throughout the region and gained a reputation as an enthusiastic and aggressive driver for any team that needed a driver.
In Yarborough drove in his first Daytona , for Roger Odom, but his engine seized with twenty laps to go. Together they competed at a number of short tracks and Grand National events, with Yarborough attaining seven top-ten finishes and three top-five finishes. Yarborough went to work for the Holman and Moody team and recorded his first Grand National victory at Valdosta Speedway in The following week at the Firecracker at Daytona, he led 72 of the first laps before his engine seized.
Soon thereafter Banjo Matthews hired Yarborough as one of his drivers, and he finished the year having run in 46 races and having finished in the top ten 21 times and in the top five 13 times.
In Yarborough entered his first Indianapolis , and he later competed in that race again, in , , and In he won a career high of ten races. He won the Daytona for the second time in and the Southern in , , and His point totals earned him the title of Winston Cup Champion in , , and For his accomplishments on the track, he was named the National Motorsports Press Association Driver of the Year in , , and In Yarborough did much to increase the widespread popularity of the sport, when he got in a fight with Bobby Allison following a wreck on the final lap of the Daytona Yarborough would continue his success in the s.
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