2 Heat 2 winner. 21 replacing Elliott at a testing session at Talladega Superspeedway due to the team being back in the top 35 in owner's points. Elliott also drove the No. In 2000, Elliott sold his team to Ray Evernham and began driving the No. 94, Elliott announced in early 2000 he was selling his equipment to championship-winning crew chief Ray Evernham to become part of Dodge's return to NASCAR. 2012 B. Keselowski Fargo (1952) - IMDb The 1984 season also brought Elliott his first season of winning NASCAR's Most Popular Driver Award, and would begin a stretch of five consecutive years, from 1984 to 1988, where he would win that award. [8] Brittany Elliott joined the Air Force Security Forces. 2002 T. Stewart The superwoman believes in balancing organization and time management for a balanced family. Elliott officially withdrew from the ballot as NASCAR's Most Popular Driver, giving the award to Dale Earnhardt Jr., who would go on to win for 15 straight years from 2003 to 2017, a NASCAR record. Italics Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. 9 Dodge, as Elliott won the pole for the 2001 Daytona 500. The season finale in 1992 was the Hooters 500 at Atlanta, and is regarded by many as one of the greatest races in NASCAR history. Two years later, he married Cindy and became a stepmother to his daughters from Bill's previous relationship. 2020 C. Elliott Bill Elliot has two daughters from his first marriage with Martha. Bill Elliott - Age, Family, Bio | Famous Birthdays In 1988, Elliott had one of the greatest seasons of his career when his captured his first and only Winston Cup Championship in NASCAR. 1953 H. Thomas Elliott was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007, and into the 2015 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Bill Elliott. 2022 J. Logano. Who is the fastest man in NASCAR? He also brought back the Bill Elliott Racing moniker when he drove the 98 car twice in 2004, one with Coke C2 Sponsorship and one with McDonald's. 98 Dodge Intrepid for Mach 1 Racing in three other events in 2004 because of sponsorship issues between Coca-Cola (Elliott's sponsor) and Pepsi (Evernham's sponsor). After back-to-back 3rd place finishes at Watkins Glen and Michigan, Elliott overtook the points lead for the first time in the season with a 2nd place finish in the second race at Bristol. Ironically, Atlanta is his hometown track, being the closest to Dawsonville in the circuit. Elliott drove careful and conservatively through the field and finished 11th to claim the 1988 Winston Cup Championship by 24 points over Rusty Wallace. Elliott also withdrew from the ballot as NASCAR's Most Popular Driver, and encouraged his long-time fans to vote for his friend and long-time rival Dale Earnhardt. 2007 J. Johnson He changed his number from 24 to his father's number, 9. It was the team's first-ever win. It is improbable that these two qualifying speed records will ever be topped again. She worked for Coca-Cola and Budweiser; at that time, Bill drove for Budweiser. Even after the divorce, Elliotts have been good friends for the growth of their two daughters. At his peak Elliott earned a decent amount as his salary, According to Forbes, the contract pushed his total earnings to $10.2 million, with his salary amounting to about $8 million. 1987 D. Earnhardt The 1997 season, was undoubtedly Elliott's best season as a driver/owner statistically. Chase has won a win in the 2020 NASCAR All-Star Race, and 17 career Cup Series wins at Bristol Motor Speedway. Elliott withdrew his name from the ballot for that award after winning it in 2002. Both Bill and Cindy are very keenly invested in their son's racing career and are always backing him up. 94, Marino owned the No. 1977 C. Yarborough Elliott married Helen Josephine Meyers in February 1927. The game was released for the NES and Amiga in 1991, and Bill Elliott's NASCAR Fast Tracks was released for the Game Boy at the same time. His father was a commissioner at the Kansas City Stockyards. He retired with 55 career poles, which ranks 8th on the all-time poles list. Cindy Elliott Balances Life As Wife to Bill and Mom to Chase He returned for the final four races after the 21 fell out of the top-35 once again. Chase Elliott's mother, Cindy Elliott, was Scene and Illustrated's photographer. In 1998, Elliott teamed up with Dan Marino to form a multi-car team, the team was renamed Elliott-Marino Motorsports, adding the No. He scored 11 wins and 11 poles out of 28 races and also won the first ever Winston Million[10] in the Southern 500 at Darlington. She was born in Columbus, Georgia. They brought essentially all of their starters back on defense following a stellar free . She serves for the Chase Elliott Foundation, it's marketing, and its contributions to different programs. 2003 M. Kenseth Retired NASCAR driver Bill Elliott 's wife Cindy has opened up about her married life, her husband and their children's racing career. Boost. The team also fielded entries in the Busch Series and Truck Series. Hollywood Cowboy 'Wild Bill Elliott' Hails from Pattonsburg, MO Chase Elliott is the only son of Bill Elliott with his wife, Cindy Elliott. The car then fell out of the top 35 again but at Bristol got back into the top 35 in points. They married on December 12, 1992, in a close circle of friends and family. 9, which was owned by Melling, his championship-winning team. 2017 M. Truex Jr. 1991 D. Earnhardt [27] Elliott successfully qualified for the Sprint Cup race at Talladega driving the 97, but finished in 37th. 9 Chevrolet. While he only made three starts during his first part-time season with Evernham, he still managed to have some success which included 2nd and 10th-place qualifying efforts at Texas and Las Vegas, and also a 9th-place finish at Indianapolis which ended up being the 320th and final Top 10 finish of Elliott's career. 1955 T. Flock [20][21] In 2008, his best starts were 5th at Bristol and 7th at Kansas. Bill Elliott's dedication to his sport and fans equals his brilliance, making him a legend among his teammates and fans. The state of Georgia actually named a street back in his hometown after his name in his honor. He has also been honored by the state legislature with a stretch of roadway (the entirety of Georgia State Route 183) in his native Dawson County renamed Elliott Family Parkway. It was the 40th win of Elliott's career, and would be the last win Elliott would capture in NASCAR until 2001, more than six years later. Chase belongs to the racing stock family, his father, Bill Elliott, was the 1988 Winston Cup Series champion. He competes full time in the Camping World Superstar Racing Experience. Elliott did come within 20 points of the championship lead after his 11th win of the season at Atlanta with one race to go. On September 23, 2007, in an interview with Charlotte Observer, Len Wood the co-owner of the No. Both of them are the children of Bill Elliott's first wife, Martha Elliott. Elliott did however pick up his first, and one lone career win in the Xfinity Series (formerly known at the time, as the Busch Grand National Series) in 1993, at the road course of Watkins Glen. Bill Elliott On 8-10-1955 Bill Elliott (nickname: Bill) was born in Dawsonville, Georgia, United States. Elliott toiled for five years in the Winston Cup Series without corporate sponsorship, and along the way showed flashes that he could compete with the established veterans of the sport. Elliott finished his first season with Evernham Motorsports with two poles, five Top 5s, and nine Top 10 finishes, and one win at the Pennzoil Freedom 400 at Homestead-Miami from the pole position. The supportive parents love watching Chase racing around and growing. Melling Racing, who ran the No. Since 1992, Elliott has been married to his wife Cindy Elliott. Elliot had a successful 37-year career in driving sports. [13] In both races, he used a Ford Thunderbird which contained an engine built by his brother Ernie Elliott. The same year they tied the knot, and there are no signs of splits. With both her husband and son being engraved into the motorsport and the limelight that comes with it, Cindy has taken the responsibility of being the director and the supervisor for the social media of both Bill and Chase. 94 in honor of his nephew, Casey Elliott, who was battling cancer at the time he formed the team and would die in 1996. The racer is the youngest driver to win a nationwide NASCAR championship (Xfinity in 2014) as a rookie of the year. It would also be the 50th pole of his career. In 1998, Elliott was selected as one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in its history, and has been honored by being inducted into numerous racing and motorsports Halls of Fame. She now shares her husband's passion for racing, and her son Chase is also chasing his dreams on the race track, which makes her love the sport even more. Elliott would go on to win the race leading 102 of the 325 laps, while Alan Kulwicki finished 2nd to Elliott, leading 103 of the 325 laps. With the usage of restrictor plates at Daytona and Talladega since 1988, it is highly unlikely that these two qualifying speed records will ever be topped. The racer is a father to 2 daughters, Starr and Brittany, and one son, William Clyde II (nicknamed Chase Elliott). Elliott won three races and $855,000 last year, down from his combined 12 victories and $2.2 million the previous two seasons. Brittany Elliot and Starr Elliot are the daughters of Bill Elliot. The late George Elliott began the racing in the Elliotts family with fast fords. 2001 J. Gordon In 2009, Elliott ran 12 races in the No. Kulwicki picked up the five point bonus for leading one single lap more than Elliott, and by finishing 2nd was able to maintain and keep his 10 point cushion on Elliott to win the 1992 Winston Cup Championship. William Clyde Elliott, famously known as Awesome Bill from Dawsonville, or Million Dollar Bill, is an American former professional stock car racing driver. 1971 R. Petty Going into the "third leg" of the Winston Million promotion, which was the World 600 at Charlotte, Elliott had a chance to capture the million dollar prize. Matt Kenseth drove Elliott's No. Elliott also won eight poles, and finished 2nd in the final point standings again, this time to Dale Earnhardt by 489 points. Bill holds fasted qualifying speed record in the track of 212.809 miles per hour. It was a struggle through the first 26 races of the season, as Bill only had five Top 10 finishes and was 16th in points. He would win again two weeks later, his 3rd of the season, with a win in the spring race at Darlington. With the season sweep at Michigan, Elliott became the first driver in NASCAR history to win 4 straight superspeedway races at one track (the record would later be tied by Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Talladega in 2003). 9 for 2001, Bill Elliott would win at Homestead driving that number, but this time, with Evernham Motorsports. And for most of his successful career, he has had the company and support of his loving partner, Cindy. He inherited his love of racing from his father, who would start a speed shop and Ford dealership. The team would also switch to No. Elliott entered two rounds of the 2022 season. 2021 K. Larson 1967 R. Petty and at age 16 Elliott won a first-place ribbon in that city's annual "American Royal Horse and . Elliott made his first Winston Cup Series start at Rockingham in 1976 driving a car owned by his father. 2008 J. Johnson, 2009 J. Johnson The string of poor finishes dropped Elliott out of the points lead to 3rd place, 40 points behind 1st place Davey Allison and 10 points behind 2nd place Alan Kulwicki, with one race to go. Their marriage produced two daughters, Starr & Brittany Elliott. The Elliotts became the third father-son NASCAR champions in history, along with Lee and Richard Petty, and Ned and Dale Jarrett. In another ironic twist, Elliott winning at Homestead would be the first time since Melling Racing and Bill Elliott himself at the Pepsi 400 in 1991, that the No. Starr and Brittany's mother, Martha, works in the Elliott Trophy Shop in Dawsonville. The 1991 season saw Elliott's sponsorship change to Coors Light and the familiar red on the car was replaced with blue. 1961 N. Jarrett Abby Elliott Is Married to Writer Bill Kennedy - AmoMama Bill Elliott prior to the Winston Western 500 at California Speedway, November 17, 1985 in Riverside, California. Bill Elliott and his daughter enjoy some time together prior to the Winston Western 500 at California Speedway, November 17, 1985 in Riverside,. With his first win to go along with 12 Top 5s and 22 Top 10 finishes, Elliott finished the season in 3rd place in the final championship point standings of 1983. The most infamous moment between Elliott and Earnhardt occurred in The 1987 Winston All-Star race, when Elliott and Earnhardt tangled on the front-stretch at Charlotte, in what has become known in NASCAR lore as "The Pass In The Grass". Elliott scored just one win the following season in 1994; his 3rd win in the Mountain Dew Southern 500 at Darlington. Bill Elliott - Facebook Meet Bill Elliott's Wife Cindy Elliott: Girlfriend Bio - PlayersGF.com 9 Dodge Dealers/UAW-sponsored Dodge Intrepid the following year. The sisters are half-sister to him. On the ensuing restart, he would then get ganged up by the Hendrick Motorsports teammates of eventual winner Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte, and Ricky Craven, ultimately finishing 4th. Elliott started 29th, but needed to finish 18th or better to clinch the championship regardless of what Rusty Wallace did in the race. Two weeks later, Elliott captured what would be the final win of his career at Rockingham (Ironically enough, at the same track where he made his first career NASCAR start back in 1976). 11 Budweiser-sponsored Ford. Elliott started the 1985 season first with a dominating victory in the Daytona 500, leading 136 of the 200 laps, starting from the pole position. 2011 T. Stewart 1997 J. Gordon Details about her are not known but this section will be updated when we find any new information regarding the American race car drivers first wife. The only crown jewel race Elliott failed to win was the World 600 (he had a pair of second-place finishes in 1982 and 1990). Elliott won the race by passing his Evernham Motorsports teammate Casey Atwood with five laps to go. However, much like the ending of the 1985 season, Elliott would lose the point lead after a string of poor finishes. Elliott ran for the Wood Brothers in 2010. Elliott's strong season would continue, which included a 2nd place finish at Talladega, leading the most laps at Sonoma finishing 5th, leading the most laps at the second Michigan race finishing 3rd, and leading the most laps, 261 of 500 laps, in the fall race at Dover and finishing 2nd. Chase Elliott is their only child together, however Bill Elliott has two grown daughters. At the end of the season, Elliott was voted the National Motorsports Press Association Driver of the Year for 1985.[12]. Chase Elliott is the son of Bill Elliott with his wife, Cindy Elliott. After winning the Southern 500 at Darlington along with the Winston Million, Elliott had built a 206 point lead in the championship standings with eight races to go. He managed to get an 11th place finish and a 10th place qualifying effort at Michigan, along with a 9th place qualifying effort at Texas. Later in 1996, Elliott suffered effects after an accident at Talladega earlier in the year and, Elliott missed two races and was replaced by Tommy Kendall and Bobby Hillin Jr. Elliott also made his first career start in the Camping World Truck Series driving for Jim Smith's team Ultra Motorsports at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, finishing 2nd. Brittany Ann Elliott and Robert Shane Bryant both of Alburquerque, N.M, have announced their engagement. He is the son of Erving George Elliott Jr. (1924-1998) and Mildred Reece (1921-1991). Cindy Elliott is also the mother of the famous race driver Chase Elliott. Elliott was entered as the driver of the No. Multiple media outlets went to cover the race, as Elliott had the chance to collect the million dollar purse which at that time had never been done in stock car racing. [29] It was Elliott's first Xfinity start since 2005 and first National Series start since 2012. 1957 B. Baker Retired NASCAR driver Bill Elliott's wife Cindy talks about - hitberry His son has carried on his legacy of being a NASCAR driver. Bill Elliott Coors Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Elliott finished the 2002 season with two wins, four poles, six Top 5 finishes, 13 Top 10 finishes, and for the 16th and final time in his career, Elliott was voted as NASCAR's Most Popular Driver. 2013 J. Johnson Growing up, it was his favorite number because of his father. His father was also a Ford person and later created a Ford dealership as there were none in the area. On December 1, 1981, Melling bought the team from Elliott's father George. In 1982, Elliott continued to show more and more flashes, and continued to flirt with victory lane more and more, as he finished the season with eight Top 5 finishes, and nine Top 10 finishes which included three runner-up finishes in the World 600 at Charlotte to Neil Bonnett, the Firecracker 400 at Daytona to Bobby Allison, and the fall race at Charlotte to Harry Gant. In the closing laps, he and Rusty Wallace battled it out for the lead, with Elliott passing Rusty with 12 laps to go, en route to victory.[16]. Elliott also holds the distinction of recording a track record at Talladega Superspeedway of 6 consecutive pole positions from 1985 to 1987. In 1985, Elliott made history by winning the first-ever Winston Million, a million-dollar bonus to any driver that could win three out of the four crown jewel races of NASCAR: The Daytona 500 at Daytona, the Winston 500 at Talladega, the World 600 at Charlotte, and the Southern 500 at Darlington. He would then go on a tear during the summer months of 1985, first winning back-to-back races, his 6th and 7th of the season, at Pocono and Michigan. He married Dolly Moore that same year. 2010 J. Johnson 1964 R. Petty Bill Elliott - Biography - IMDb (Jeff Siner/Charlotte Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) PURCHASE A . 13 and keeping the No. Both Brittany and Starr are grown up and well-established in their lives. 36 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS for MB2 Motorsports in the 2006 Daytona Speedweeks events. He also drove at Talladega for Latitude 43 Motorsports. Elliott's best finish during his six year run as a driver/owner was at Michigan in 1997, finishing 2nd to Ernie Irvan. In 29 races, Elliott won another six races, won another six poles, had a string of 16 consecutive Top 10 finishes, and did not have a race where he finished outside the Top 20. Hubert Lee Elliott Obituary (1931 - 2023) | China Grove - Echovita After the fall Dover race, Elliott found himself with a 154 point lead in the championship standings with six races remaining. He soon earned his first Top 10 finish in the Southern 500 (10th), and his first top-5 finish 2 years later in the same race, finishing 2nd to race winner (and Elliott's boyhood hero) David Pearson. Chase Elliott's rumored girlfriend is Ashley Anderson. This was his 828th and final start in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Chase Elliott Sisters: Starr Elliott And Brittany Ann Elliott In the 1990 race at Atlanta, Elliott's rear tire changer Mike Rich was killed when Ricky Rudd lost control of his car, spun, and slammed the crew member between his car and Elliott's. In downtown Dawsonville, East 1st Street N & S (North and South) was renamed "Bill Elliott Street N & S", which is also conveniently, where the famous Dawsonville Pool Room is located (at the address of "9 Bill Elliott Street S"), along with the infamous "siren" that traditionally went off when Bill Elliott won a race. He finished the season with one pole, five Top 5 finishes, 14 Top 10 finishes, and finishing 8th in the final point standings. That lone win in 1991 would be the only time in his career that Elliott won in a car that was not painted red. He also won four poles during the season, and he finished 4th in the championship standings. Elliott did not win any races, but came extremely close on several occasions. With Bill Elliott, Myron Healey, Phyllis Coates, Fuzzy Knight. 9 vehicle. As a result, NASCAR restricted the cars' speed on pit road. Awesome Bill from Dawsonville currently holds the track record for the fastest qualifying speed at Talladega at 212.809 miles per hour (342.483 km/h) and Daytona International Speedway at 210.364 miles per hour (338.548 km/h), both of which were set in 1987. The team fell out of the top-35 in owners' points after Indianapolis, leading to the firing of Mayfield, and Evernham assumed that Elliott would guarantee a starting spot in the field by being a past champion. He also collected four poles and finished 3rd in the final points standings for the second year in a row. They were seen hanging out in 2021 but have not been spotted together these days. The success of Melling Racing may have come to an end after Elliott left at the end of 1991, but Elliott would be more successful in the years to come. Then we will see how things go." 1986 D. Earnhardt In 1983, Elliott picked up four more 2nd place finishes in the season, which included finishing runner-up in the Daytona 500 to Cale Yarborough, runner-up at Rockingham to Richard Petty, runner-up to Ricky Rudd in the summer race at the road course Riverside, and runner-up to Bobby Allison in the Southern 500 at Darlington.