Tracy Read

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Tracy Read (? - July 25th,1987) was a campaigner on the Automobile Racing Club of America tour. He also worked on Cale Yarborough's NASCAR team and for a few ARCA races in 1987 Read ran Yarborough's backup Winston Cup race car.

In the spring race at Talladega in 1987, Read was swept up in a massive pileup late in the race, but was uninjured. However, on his next race back at Talladega in July Read spun and hit the Turn 2 wall, on the 78th lap of the 117 lap (500 km race), suffering fatal injuries.


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