- Winner of 50 Winston Cup races; 7th among all-time winners
- 1957 & 1958 NASCAR National Sportsman Driving Champion
- 1961 & 1965 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion
- 1965 Winner of Southern 500 at Darlington, SC
- 1964 Winner of Atlanta Journal 500
- Myers Brothers Memorial Award - only 4 time recipient (1964,
1965, 1982, 1983)
Presented each year by the National Motor Sports Press Assocaitions
to the person or company contributing the most to the sport of auto
racing in America
- CBS Sports and ESPN announcer for auto racing
- Inducted into International Motorsports Hall of Fame in July
of 1991
- Retired from driving race cars in 1966
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