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[edit] 1. Buddy Wayne Barefoot

Buddy Wayne Barefoot
Buddy Wayne Barefoot
Buddy Wayne Barefoot, Jr.
Born: April 7, 1979
Birthplace: Benson, North Carolina
Awards: 1998, 2002 Racing with Attitude season champion

2003 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Rookie of the Year
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Statistics
Car #, Team #94 - BareLamb Racing
2006 NEXTEL Cup Position: 1st
Best Cup Position: 1st - 2003, 2004, 2006
First Race: 2003 Daytona 500 (Daytona)
First Win: 2003 UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 (Las Vegas)
Last Win: 2006 Dickies 500 (Texas)
Wins Top Tens Poles
40 113 14
NASCAR Busch Series Statistics
Car #, Team #30 - BareLamb Racing
2006 NBS Position: 22nd
Best NBS Position: 16th - 2005
First Race: 2003 Carquest Auto Parts 300 (Lowe's)
First Win: 2003 Carquest Auto Parts 300 (Lowe's)
Last Win: 2006 O'Reilly Challenge (Texas)
Wins Top Tens Poles
22 38 9
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Statistics
2006 NCTS Position: 35th
Best NCTS Position: 28th - 2005
First Race: 2003 Darlington 200 (Darlington)
First Win: 2003 Darlington 200 (Darlington)
Last Win: 2006 Kroger 200 (Martinsville)
Wins Top Tens Poles
11 17 5
All stats current as of November 14, 2006.

Buddy Wayne Barefoot is an American athlete and entertainer.

He has transcended both the NASCAR and country music worlds of which he is a part, becoming an icon beloved around the world, especially in the Southern United States. However, he is also very controversial due to his beliefs on various ideas and his insistence on defending a nostalgic lifestyle.

In 2005, Barefoot became the first athlete or entertainer to win the Person of the Year award from Time magazine.

[edit] Birth and early life

Buddy Wayne Barefoot, Jr. was born on April 7, 1979 at Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital in Dunn, North Carolina.[1] He actually grew up in Benson, a town six miles to the north. From the beginning, his life was marked by turmoil and difficulty.

His mother, Brenda, suffers from fragile X syndrome, which is a developmental disability. In an apparent attempt to escape the burden of his condition, Brenda drank heavily and took several antidepressant drugs. She did not stop even during her pregnancy with the couple's second child, which turned out to be Buddy Wayne. (An older brother, Bobby Ray, was born on August 22, 1976.)

The drugs and alcohol were blamed for several birth defects that the younger Buddy Wayne had. Both his limbs on the right side of his body were shorter than those on the left side, and his brain development was slightly delayed. The worst of the defects, however, was in his heart: Barefoot's heart valves were shorter than that of a healthy child, resulting in a heartbeat with an inconsistent rhythm. While the size of the limbs were eventually corrected, B.W. would require periodic surgeries for the rest of his life to correct the heart condition.

His father, the elder Buddy Wayne Barefoot, thought that the defects "contaminated" the parents' second son, and sometime in 1983, the couple separated. The younger Buddy Wayne stayed with Brenda, and Bobby Ray moved with the father elsewhere.[2]

Because of her disability, family welfare officials in North Carolina deemed Brenda an unfit mother. Brenda responded by petitioning the court for a reversal, which she won in 1985. Officials appealed to the North Carolina Supreme Court, but the original ruling was upheld in 1987.

During the case, B.W. began to visit Alonzo Barefoot, Buddy Wayne's great uncle, every weekend. Alonzo lived in Newton Grove, yet another nearby town. Buddy Wayne has credited Alonzo for his love of both sports and music. The two started to attend NASCAR races at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham. B.W. also channeled his energy against the family tumult by playing songs on a guitar Alonzo gave him. On it, he sang simple songs, some of them he wrote himself.

Even after the state supreme court ruled in favor of Brenda, the split relationship continued between Brenda and Alonzo.

Barefoot attended Benson High School as a freshman, then South Johnston High School in Four Oaks (a fourth small town in the area) after school consolidation. Barefoot led South Johnston to the state basketball semifinals in 1996, and Bob Gibbons, one of the leading talent scouts in the U.S., put Barefoot on his "watch list" of 50 players throughout the state. A knee injury ended his senior season in December 1996. Despite the injury, he was still offered a scholarship to attend Campbell University, an NCAA Division I college.

[edit] Bluebird incident

Main article: Bluebird incident

In 1997, Buddy Wayne and Bobby Ray agreed to move to Baldridge Island, the mystical isle located at the intersection of the Prime Meridian and the Equator. They saw it as a place of unlimited opportunity for young people like themselves. But the elder Buddy Wayne was opposed to the move, thinking the island was full of Satanic influences.

Late on the night on May 30, 1997, three friends–Brandon McLamb, Jeff Buffaloe, and Bart Adams Jr.–concocted a secret series of car relays and hand signals, indicating that it was safe for the brothers to leave their home and head for Baldridge Island. They barely made their flight at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, which connected to the LaGuardia Airport in New York City and eventually to the island.

[edit] Baldridge Island

Once he arrived, Barefoot began to realize both his dreams–to be a race car driver and a country music singer.

The racing took place on a 1/8-mile, high-banked race course at the Budweiser Center sports arena as part of a series called Racing with Attitude. The organization emphasized personality similar to that found in professional wrestling as much as racing, and Barefoot's role was as a rural Southern bumpkin. During his four years there, Barefoot won over 80 percent, the regular-season points title four times, and the official championship–decided in a single-race shootout–twice (1999 and 2002).[3]

As for music, he began on street corners and hotel lobbies before the opening of Country Standard Time, a themed nightclub, in 1998. From there, he used his talent and marketing savvy to become an unexpected star. Most other music stars there performed dance and modern rock music, but Barefoot became the face of local music. When the Nashville press heard about him, he was described as a cross between Johnny Cash (his blunt attitude), Randy Travis (emphasis on traditional music), and Garth Brooks (popular appeal).

In 2000, he was named a rising star by both UMI Publications (in its book NASCAR 2000) and CMJ magazine.

Also in 2000, he appeared in Love Conquers All, playing Romeo to Melanie MacMelville's Juliet in a retelling of the classic William Shakespeare story. That movie played mainly in overseas markets, with only a handful of screens in the U.S. However, it was shown on the WB network in 2003.

[edit] Coming to America

In 2000, Ray Evernham, the former crew chief for NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon, was putting together his own Winston Cup Series team, Evernham Motorsports. He was looking for a driver of the #19 car, to be a teammate for Bill Elliott for the 2001 season. Barefoot all but agreed to terms, but the deal fell apart over a scheduling conflict. Barefoot wanted to leave RWA after a farewell race in January 2001, but Evernham wanted him to sit out the entire 2000-01 season and participate in two races at the end of 2000, with Motorola sponsorship.[4]

As a result, the seat went to Busch Series phenom Casey Atwood instead. Atwood lasted only one season in the #19, before he was replaced by Jeremy Mayfield (2002-August 2006) and then Elliott Sadler (August 2006-present).

In 2002, with the blessing of the Baldridge Island government and the backing of Brian McRipper, Barefoot made a second attempt at racing in America. His stock-car debut was the ARCA RE/MAX Series Hantz Group 200 at Michigan International Speedway; he finished third that day. His first win in a full-body car came in October at the series' Food World 300 at Talladega Superspeedway.

In an extraordinary move, NASCAR allowed him to enter the 2003 Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway. It was explained that this race would help him to get a license to run all NASCAR races, including the four Cup races on tracks at which the engines are required to have restrictor plates.[5]

[edit] NASCAR career

[edit] First championship season

In 2003, Barefoot set a record for most wins in a NASCAR season in the modern era (since 1971) with 14 and became the first rookie to win the Winston Cup championship. (He was also the last driver to win a title called Winston Cup, as it became the NEXTEL Cup Series the following year.) Of course, he was also the series' rookie of the year.

His success was especially astonishing for two reasons:

  • The team, called BareLamb Racing after the area's Barefoot and McLamb families, only fielded a single car each week. Even by this point, most major NASCAR owners had at least two separate teams, and in the years since three- and even four-car teams have become common. The reason for this is to share testing time and sensitive racing data.
  • The team's crew members consisted mainly of residents of the three-county confluence of Johnston, Harnett, and Sampson counties, only a few of which had previous NASCAR experience. Mixed in where some former Baldridge Island residents and some castoffs from other Cup teams. For example, team manager Mike Dillon came from Richard Childress Racing; ironically, Dillon is Childress' nephew.

Barefoot was locked in a tight battle with Matt Kenseth for the season title for about two-thirds of the season before pulling away at the end of the year. His final margin of victory was 467 points.

Highlights included his third-place finish at the rain-shortened Daytona 500, his first series win at the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400, and three straight wins at Bristol, Darlington, and Richmond.

[edit] Second NASCAR championship

Barefoot got 2004 off to a flying start. In February, he became the youngest driver to ever win the Daytona 500, then won what turned out to be the last-ever Cup race at North Carolina Speedway. In all, he added 10 more wins to his total in Cup racing.

But throughout the year, there were hints that the title defense would be far from smooth:

  • In March, Brandon McLamb took over as co-crew chief along with Bobby Ray Barefoot. The stated reason was to involve both families in the decision-making process, but some cynics suggested the real reason was to exploit McLamb's gift of gab in race interviews, at which the crew chief is spokesman for the team.[1] McLamb resigned in May, having served in that capacity for only 10 races.
  • In June, Belinda Barefoot, Bobby Ray's daughter, developed a high fever and headache. There were fears that the two-year-old would have deafness or another life-changing illness. Bobby Ray left the team to tend to the situation. Even though Belinda made a full recovery, he would not rejoin the team for the rest of the year. Bob Mooberry took over for most races, but Jeff Hammond and Ruffin Crabtree filled in one time each.[6]
  • In October, Barefoot suffered a mild heart attack. Several events led to the problem, including the stress of a namesake's arrest for a hate crime, a book by Raymond Poelgeest in which he was accused of cheating in the 2003 season, and the crash of a Hendrick Motorsports plane in which 10 people were killed. Barefoot spent several days at BJRH, and his status for the following race at Atlanta Motor Speedway was uncertain. He would start the Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500, but would be relieved by Ricky Rudd on lap 19.

Barefoot won the second title, but by just one point over Kurt Busch. The outcome was in doubt until Barefoot made a pass on Jamie McMurray on the backstretch at the season-ending Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, enabling him to finish high enough in the race standings to win the overall title. This was the closest title chase in NASCAR history, and the first year of the Chase for the NEXTEL Cup.

On November 21, Barefoot underwent six hours of corrective surgery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Doctors repaired the faulty heart valve and extended one of his arteries to the correct size. Barefoot was released on December 4.

[edit] 2005: Triumph and turmoil

Main article: 2005 Buddy Wayne Barefoot-NASCAR penalty

Barefoot thought he had another victory at the Daytona 500 to start the season, but he was "black-flagged" for passing below the yellow line, which is out of bounds there and at Talladega. Since the infraction was on the last lap, it amounted to a disqualification. Jeff Gordon, who crossed the line second, was declared the winner.

Barefoot won another nine races, bringing his career title to 33. However, he only placed sixth in the final standings, 189 points behind champion Tony Stewart. Much of the reason for this was a controversial fine and points penalty based on some comments he made about NASCAR officials both on and off the track, as well as how they were portrayed in his movie, Rebel.

On September 2, 2005, as America was still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, NASCAR announced that Barefoot would lose 190 points when the Chase began two weeks from that point. He would also drop to 10th place, leaving him 235 points behind Stewart, who would assume the lead. In addition, he was fined a record $250,000.[2]

Although Barefoot raced very well in the final 10-race stretch, winning twice and finishing in the top ten eight times, it was far from enough to catch Stewart, though he did vault past four other drivers in the standings.

One of Barefoot's nine wins was the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in May. He was 12th with four laps to go when the race restarted after a red flag delay. He drove past one driver after another until he nipped Jimmie Johnson at the wire for the win. It was one of the most dramatic race comebacks in NASCAR history.[3]

In addition, Barefoot won nine times in the Busch Series, the most since Sam Ard won 10 in 1984; owned Burl Hunkapiller's car, which finished 11th overall with a race win at Phoenix International Raceway; and owned first cousin Bunky Barefoot's truck, which won the season title for the Craftsman Truck Series.

[edit] 2006: Third NASCAR championship

Barefoot made it his goal to return to the Chase in 2006 and try to regain the title he lost the year before. By the end of the 26th race, he had five wins and ended the period first in the standings, earning him another trip to the Chase. He is one of only four drivers to qualify for all three; the others are Kenseth, Johnson, and Mark Martin.

On November 5, 2006, Barefoot won his 40th career Cup race, the Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. He became only the 16th driver in NASCAR history with at least that many career victories. Barefoot is also the only Cup driver to win at Texas more than once. The win came in his 141st career start, shattering the all-time record pace. (Tim Flock held the previous record, with 189 starts.)

Two weeks later, Barefoot won his third NEXTEL Cup championship, clinching with a 13th-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway during the Ford 400. Barefoot joins Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Darrell Waltrip, Cale Yarborough, and Lee Petty as winners of at least three season titles. He has done this in only four seasons, by far the quickest span of these drivers from the start of a career. Barefoot called the title "the most satisfying" of his career because of what had happened to him the previous year, as well as the expansion of the Chase field from 10 drivers to 12.[4]

He also swept the Talladega races and won the NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge for the second time.

Meanwhile, Bunky Barefoot won his first start at BareLamb, the Sony HD 500 at California Speedway on September 3. He became the youngest race winner (20 years, 3 months, 21 days) in NEXTEL Cup history. Barefoot was at PPI Motorsports before then.

Off the track, he married high school sweetheart Shayla McLamb on July 29 in Benson.

[edit] 2007 so far

Barefoot returned to the 94 car for the 2007 season. It is the only car in the BareLamb stable that did not change its number or sponsor in the 2006 "silly season." However, he did receive a new crew chief; Bobby Ray Barefoot has resigned from BareLamb to establish BL-II, a new entry in the National Hot Rod Association (drag racing). Lyman Ripperton has taken over as crew chief.

Barefoot ended the first four races of the season without a victory for the first time in his career. However, he was fifth in points, with a best of third at the Kobalt Tools 500. He was also sixth at the Daytona 500.

[edit] Movies, music and television

[edit] "Bluebird" phenomenon

In 2003, RCA Nashville, his recording label, released "Bluebird" as a single. It was an account of the Bluebird incident, working around the melody he wrote as a child. The song reached number one on the Billboard pop and country charts, and it stayed on top of the pop chart for a record 20 weeks. (The previous record was 16.)[5]

The song was hailed as one of the most hauntingly beautiful pop songs ever recorded. Barefoot recorded it using only a solo country guitar, sparse compared to that of other chart-topping songs. But the American public loved it, as evidenced in the extreme by footage of a 17-year-old girl in Mobile, Alabama, who fainted after shouting "thank you, thank you" repeatedly.[6]

[edit] Rebel

Main article: Rebel (movie)

In 2005, Rebel was released. It was a story, based on Barefoot's own script, about a superhero that specializes in counterterrorism. Released four years after "9/11," and with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan bogging down, the idea of instant, painless revenge unified audiences throughout the United States and the world. Its box office receipts totaled $952.5 million, the highest total of the year, even more than Star Wars Episode III, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Batman Begins.[7] Barefoot instantly became the latest action hero in Hollywood, and more offers poured in.

[edit] My Ideal World

Main article: My Ideal World

Barefoot and the movie's distributor, Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson, decided to channel some of the movie's profits into a new nationwide broadcast network, also called Rebel. Barefoot created My Ideal World, a variety show based on an idyllic, nostalgic lifestyle, and hired himself to host it. The program debuted on September 17, 2006, and travels throughout the U.S., usually within only a 100 miles of where Barefoot competed in NASCAR racing earlier that day.[7]

[edit] Appeal and controversy

Barefoot is known for his blunt-speaking nature. His honesty, and his willingness to represent those who believe in traditional lifestyles–especially in the South–has made him beloved among many people. He is one of the few public figures to appeal equally to both genders, white and black, and all age groups. A World Almanac survey in 2005 revealed that Barefoot is the favorite celebrity among those ages 12-17.[8]

Politically, he is very conservative on some issues, like military defense, abortion, and family values. He has remained one of the few public supporters, outside the George W. Bush administration, of the Iraq war. (In that vein, he has started a charity, the Buddy Wayne Barefoot Freedom Foundation, which supports families of military members and first responders.) In 2006, he alleged that the Downing Street memo, which has been used by war critics to justify their argument that the reason for the war was wrong, was a forgery. The Times of London, which first reported the story, denied the allegation.[9]

In another controversial comment, he said in 2005 that Robert Novak's revelation of Valerie Plame as an undercover Central Intelligence Agency operative was "an accident."[10] Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was accused of orchestrating the leak, was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury in March 2007.

While Barefoot is generally an advocate of economic growth in the private sector, he is opposed to a corporate structure in some industries, especially agriculture, health care, and funeral industries. Barefoot believes that large corporations should not be involved in these industries. Also, his belief in mom-and-pop companies in rural town squares appears to be inconsistent with the sponsorship money he gets from Wal-Mart, which have been blamed for the closure of more of these stores than any other company.[11] However, Wal-Mart has publicly stood by Barefoot and plans to honor the rest of the sponsorship contract, which expires in 2010.[12]

Also, Barefoot has had to fire at least two fan club presidents. One said that he wanted to kill former U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman because he planned to meet with anti-war activist Noam Chomsky upon his return to the States; these comments came while the Pentagon was investigating possible criminal negligence in Tillman's death. The other said that he wished it was OK to kill Hispanic immigrants who have moved to the South to work for agribusiness companies like Tyson Foods and Smithfield Foods.[8]

In 2005, British investigative reporter Greg Palast put out an article accusing Barefoot of using a traction control device to improve his performance on the race track. Palast compared traction control to steroids. Barefoot has denied this.[13]

Barefoot has also been in the crosshairs for his public displays of the Confederate flag, and his desire to re-create the Confederacy, at least in his own mind. He denies that the flag (based on the cross of St. George) is racist, and blames the current connotation on Fritz Hollings using it as such during a debate on school desegregation in 1961. Hollings, then the governor of South Carolina, replaced the American flag with the battle flag on top of the state house in Columbia; racists such as those with the Ku Klux Klan then incorporated the symbol. "I'm merely trying to reclaim something for the whole Southern people what a few bad people stole," he explained.[9] As for his vision of the new country, it would be a place that "doesn't tolerate homosexuals, shakedown artists, and morally bankrupt people."[10]

Barefoot airs his opinions on a segment on NASCAR pre-race shows, sponsored by Wal-Mart, called "The Confession Room." This debuted in 2005; before then (2003), he appeared in a pre-race segment called "Go Time" in which he psyched himself by wearing replica jerseys of professional athletes and outfits worn by Elvis Presley and the Blues Brothers. These segments were also sponsored by Wal-Mart for all but the first two weeks.[14]

[edit] Future

Despite the aforementioned offers to return to movie acting, Barefoot is apparently off the market for now. He has said that he will concentrate on his NASCAR career as both a driver and car owner. In fact, he will be joined by two protégés for the 2007 NEXTEL Cup season: Bunky Barefoot and Bubba Ray Lumpkin.

He has stayed active in Hollywood: his Barefoot Entertainment division was the executive producer of The Ballad of Beulah Mae in late 2006 and is behind the comedic film Born Too Late, to be released in June 2007.

On October 12, 2006, it was announced that Barefoot will be an analyst for about eight Busch Series races on ESPN, ESPN2 and "ESPN on ABC." The contract also reportedly calls for some college basketball analysis as well.[15] (Barefoot returned to Campbell as a player and graduate assistant coach in 2005-06, but has since resigned.[16]) Barefoot's debut for ESPN was the February 24, 2007 Stater Brothers 300 at California Speedway.[11]

[edit] Business ventures

  • Motorsports: BareLamb Racing owns eight full-time teams scattered among the NEXTEL Cup, Busch, and Craftsman Truck series. One of his drivers, Patty Petty, won the NCTS Toyota Tundra Milwaukee 200 on June 24, 2006, becoming the first woman to win a major NASCAR race.[17]
  • Entertainment: Barefoot owns a 22 percent stake in the Rebel TV network, and owns Barefoot Entertainment, a production company, and Little Boy Records, a sublabel within Sony BMG Music with such artists as Melanie MacMelville, Bubba Brister, and Sons of Bytches.
  • Merchandise: Barefoot Worldwide Ventures, Inc. licenses his name for use in commercials, and manufactures all its official items.
  • Land: He owns 112 acres in Mingo, a small community which borders Sampson, Harnett, and Johnston counties. Most of it consists of a wildlife preserve that abuts his personal home. In March 2007, the "Barefoot Walk" retail complex was to open in a former parking lot on the BareLamb Racing property, to be anchored by a 20-screen Regal Cinemas, a large Rebel-themed store and Dave & Buster's.[18]

[edit] Trivia

[edit] References

  1. ^ One for the Ages, by Brian Cabell. New York: HarperPerennial, 2004
  2. ^ SportsCentury, debuted on ESPN Classic 2/17/06
  3. ^ SportsCentury
  4. ^ One for the Ages
  5. ^ Chicago Tribune, Feb. 10, 2003, page C9
  6. ^ Daytona Beach News-Journal, July 26, 2004 p. 2A
  7. ^ "A whole new 'World' opens up." Boston Herald, Sep. 18, 2006
  8. ^ New York Times, July 13, 2006, p. A10
  9. ^ ABC, The Barbara Walters Interview, Feb. 29, 2004
  10. ^ Rush Limbaugh radio show, on which Barefoot filled in as host, May 31, 2005
  11. ^ My Ideal World telecast, Oct. 15, 2006
  12. ^ SportsCentury
  13. ^ Guinness Book of World Records, 2007 edition

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