Ed Negre

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Ed Negre

Born

July 29, 1929
Kelso, Washington

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career

338 race(s) run over 17 year(s)

Best finish

12th - 1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season

First race

1955 untitled race (Bay Meadows Speedway)

Last race

1979 Southern 500 (Darlington Raceway)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
0	26	0

Ed Negre (born July 16, 1929 - Kelso, Washington) is a retired NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series driver who raced from 1955 to 1979.^[1]

Career

Negre led 202 laps out of the 64857 laps that he raced in his career - the equivalent of 6,545.7 miles (10,534.3 km).^[1] His total career earnings were $344,180 USD ($1,107,025.54 in today's money).^[1] While his average starting position was 24th place, 22nd was Negre's average finishing position. One of his main sponsors was the Dick Brooks Honda.^[2] Negre would be famous for driving the #8 on the track (as this would become the number that he would use the most often). However, he would also get the most amount of DNFs (37) while competing in the #8 machine.^[3] This would be counteracted by Negre getting 44 finishes in the top-twenty while competing in the #8 car.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ed Negre information at Racing Reference
↑ Ed Negre information at Stat Sheet
↑ Ed Negre information at Driver Averages

Persondata
Name	Negre, Ed
Alternative names
Short description	Former NASCAR driver
Date of birth	July 29, 1929
Place of birth	Kelso, Washington
Date of death
Place of death

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