Motorsports fans may remember a familiar sports car champion who dabbled with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series from the late 1980s-90s, often competing at the challenging road courses as a track specialist for a team to subbing for injured championship regulars at these speedways.
While he only competed in 14 races in the most elite form of stock car racing, most of these events were memorable and with some of the competitive rides of the top division. Did I mention that he's a helluva racer, competing at some of the world's greatest speed arenas?
Regarded as one of the first road course ringers in NASCAR, Tommy Kendall was also a very accomplished SCCA Trans-Am racer, winning four championships with his memorable No. 11 All Sport Ford Mustang. There's also that 1995 24 Hours of Daytona victory when he was teamed with NASCAR Hall of Fame shoo-in Mark Martin and the prolific silver screen icon Paul Newman.
To put it in simple terms, Kendall was the Jeff Gordon of...
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