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Late Start was No Road Block to NASCAR Stardom for Tim Flock

Photo - RacingOne/Getty Image
Photo – RacingOne/Getty Image

Pioneer Competitor Won Two Titles, Excelled On Daytona’s Beach & Road Course

By contemporary standards, Julius Timothy “Tim” Flock was a late bloomer. Flock was 24 years of age when he competed in his first stock car race in 1948.

But the Fort Payne, Ala., native, who raced out of Atlanta, was a quick study finishing second in NASCAR’s inaugural season of modified stock car competition. Flock, along with older brothers Fonty and Bob, were among the field of 33 drivers competing in the organization’s first Strictly Stock – now NASCAR Sprint Cup Series – race at Charlotte, N.C., in June 1949.  Continue reading

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