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a former ARCA and was a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver. Charlie holds one of the oldest race records in NASCAR. In 1971 Charlie won the caution-free Volunteer 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in a record pace that still stands. The race was completed with an average speed of 101.074 mph. He was also known as "The Chargin' Comet" and "Chargin' Charlie". His first NASCAR Winston Cup race was in 1960. It would come at Charlotte Motor Speedway in the National 400. He would start 38th but break an A-frame after 192 laps and finish 28th. While never running a full Cup schedule, he ran races part-time every year from 1967 to 1975. The most Cup races he ran in a single year was in 1968, when he race in 22 of 48 events. Along with Charlie's first start being at Charlotte; his first win would also come there also. It would be in 1968 in the National 500. Chargin' Charlie would start on the pole and lead 92 laps winning by seven seconds over Paul Goldsmith and David Pearson. For the last 100 laps only Glotzbach and Pearson would lead; but Charlie would take control with 33 laps

to go and lead until the Checkers. In 1969 he finished second in the Daytona 500 after being passed on the last lap by LeeRoy Yarbrough. In late 1969, Glotzbach received broken ribs and was shot twice after firing an employee of his trucking company and would only run 12 races. He returned the next season and continued to run competitively with one of the bullets still in his upper arm. He won twice in 1970; one of those being a qualifying race for the Daytona 500. Back in that time wins in the qualifying races counted as 'official' wins. His final win would come in Bristol in the race mentioned above as the fastest race. His last NASCAR Cup race was in 1992 at Talladega in the DieHard 500. He would start 19th

driving the #90 car for Junie Donleavy. But Junie's under-funded team was no match for the 'modern' NASCAR teams with their high dollar budgets and Glotzbach was only able to post a 30th place finish. Glotzbach was named the 1964 ARCA series Rookie of the Year. He also attempted to qualify for the 1969 and 1970 Indianapolis 500 races, but failed to qualify for both. 19 drivers failed to qualify for Indy in 1969; and in 1970 28 drivers are shown as failing to qualify for the big race. For his career, Glotzbach ran 124 Cup races racing in 15 season from 1960 to 1992. He won four times, with 38 top five finishes. Some info from Wikipedia

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CHARLES "CHARLIE" GLOTZBACH - 06/19/1938 - 04/23/2021