Former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Lincoln County (N.C.) police.
At about noon on Thursday, the Lincoln County Communications Center received a call indicating that there would be a dead body at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Boger City, and it would be the speaker's. Return calls to the number went unanswered. Crews arriving at the scene found Trickle's body lying near his pickup truck.
Look, we all know where the conversation about Mr. Trickle is headed. The guy's name was a punchline his entire career. But he was a hard-nosed racer in his day, and this is how we prefer to remember him best:
