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NASCAR’s oldest living champion, White won the 1960 NASCAR Cup Series title after a six-win campaign, defeating 1989 inductee Richard Petty. In that season for the ages, White also collected NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver and Driver of the Year awards. Overall, the Taylorsville, NC native amassed 28 Cup wins, 36 poles, 110 Top 5 finishes and 163 Top 10s. He followed up his championship year with seven- and eight-win seasons (1961-2), years in which he finished second and fifth in the championship. In fact, from 1959 through 1963, White won more races than anyone, and his career Top 10 strike rate of 70% may be the best all-time. Born during the Depression, White contracted polio as a child. At 5’3,” 135 lbs, he is NASCAR’s smallest champion. "Most of the lessons I have learned have stayed with me all my life,” White said. “The biggest one was how to conquer fear." White was named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998 and inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2015.