Richard
Childress Racing will honor former NASCAR track and team owner Warner Hodgon
with a memorial decal at this weekend’s events at Auto Club Speedway in
Fontana, Calif.
Hodgdon died March 20
after
several weeks of declining health, at age 80. During the height of his NASCAR
career, he owned or co-owned six different
race tracks, sponsored events at Riverside International Raceway and North
Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, N.C., and sponsored Neil Bonnett's car in
the then-NASCAR Winston Cup Series. He
was also president of Black Gold Oil Company, which sponsored the No. 3
Chevrolet that Richard Childress owned and drove in the late 1970s.
“Warner was a
great friend and partner who helped change the landscape of NASCAR team
ownership in the late 1970s,” said Childress. “I learned a lot about business
from the advice he gave me over the years. He was there to help me with
sponsorship from Black Gold when I really needed it. Warner was an entrepreneur
with a great vision for where stock car racing could go and we stayed in touch
long after his time in racing ended. He was a great friend and will be missed.”
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