Thursday, 16 May 2013

Sheriff: Ex-NASCAR driver Dick Trickle dead at 71 (The Associated Press)

NASCAR legend Dick Trickle attends a driver's meeting for the Bodine Bobsled Challenge at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, N.Y., Thursday, January 5, 2006. The Bodine Bobsled Challenge is an event bringing pro race car drivers to Lake Placid to compete in modified bobsleds to benefit the production of new bobsled technology for the U.S. bobsled team. (AP Photo/Mark Goldman)

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- Authorities in North Carolina say former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 71.