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IN MEMORIAM
Racing icon Junior Johnson dies
NASCAR driver and former team owner Robert Glenn “Junior” Johnson, 88, passed away December 20. His health had been on the decline and he died peacefully while under hospice care. He was a larger-than-life character who became one of the most influential personalities in NASCAR and one of the first inductees into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
As a moonshiner in and around his hometown of Ronda, North Carolina, Junior built fast cars that could outrun the police when running bootleg whiskey
