Talk:List of NASCAR fatalities

Possible further NASCAR fatalities

Driver fatalities

Driver	Date of accident	Event	Circuit	Session	Series/Division/Tour/Class	Sources suggesting NASCAR or non-NASCAR sanction
Bob Cameron (USA)	June 4, 1960		Lancaster Speedway (Lancaster, New York)	Practice	Sportsman	"raced the whole NASCAR circut from 1948-1960" [1]; but: "was Killed at Lancaster Speedway [...] the not yet NASCAR sanctioned track" [2]
Dean Layfield (USA)	August 20, 1961		Perry Raceway	Heat race		[3]
Gene Blair (USA)	August 18, 1962		Cattaraugus County Fairgrounds	Race	Midget	"was killed in a NASCAR race" [4]
Sonny Black (USA)	September 18, 1964		Five Flags Speedway		Super Modified	[5]
Gip Gibson (USA)	July 14, 1974	51-lap race	Virginia Raceway	Feature race	Late Model Sportsman	[6]
Stephen Tarigo (USA)	September 18, 1974		San Jose Speedway (at East Tully Road & Quimby Road in San Jose, California)	Feature race	Figure 8	[7]
Tommy Druar (USA)	June 10, 1989	40-lap race	Lancaster National Speedway (Lancaster, New York)	Feature race	Modified	[8]; but: "Sanction: Independent" [9]
Doug Chilton (USA)	August 26, 2000		311 Motor Speedway (Pine Hall, North Carolina)	Race	Sportsman	[10]
Chuck Sennott (USA)	September 22, 2001	20-lap race	Delaware International Speedway	Feature race	Late Model	[11]

Drivers who have died of a medical condition

This list covers drivers who crashed their cars because of a fatal medical condition (i.e. drivers who did not die from the injuries they may have sustained in the ensuing accident) as well as those who managed to stop their cars but died of a medical condition shortly afterwards.

Driver	Date of incident	Event	Circuit	Session	Series/Division/Tour/Class	Medical condition	Sources suggesting NASCAR or non-NASCAR sanction
Mike Bailey (USA)	July 28, 2015	30-lap race	Grandview Speedway	Feature race	NAPA Auto Parts Thunder on the Hill Racing Series (358 Modified)	Having qualified for a feature race, the 39-year-old manufacturing engineer had a fatal heart attack before the start.	"This event is open to all competitors and will follow the weekly Grandview 358 NASCAR Modified rules." [12] But: series apparently run independently by track [13]

Non-driver fatalities

This section lists people who have been fatally injured in close connection to the racing taking place at an event while not driving a race car including drivers being on the sidelines.

Name	Role	Date of accident	Event	Circuit	Session	Series/Division/Tour/Class	Sources suggesting NASCAR or non-NASCAR sanction
Stacy Elliott (USA)		September 21, 1956		Fredericksburg Speedway (Fredericksburg, Virginia)	Practice		[14]

Elliott, who was killed while walking across the track, was either a driver [15] or a mechanic [16].

References

--Fluidfellow (talk) 21:57, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Drivers who died of medical conditions to be listed separately?

Drivers who crashed their cars because of fatal medical conditions (which means they did not die of injuries sustained in the accident itself): John Nelson, Gary Neice, Ron Biellier, Billy Joe Pressley (possibly), Al Papini, Bubba Beck, Ron Pestana, Leon Gonyo, Larry Catlett (possible NASCAR fatality)

Drivers who collapsed because of fatal medical conditions after stopping in the pits: Gene Lovelace, Bobby Isaac, Bill Baker, Hal Shuster, Bub Bilodeau

--Fluidfellow (talk) 21:57, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

If they have a proper citation that proves that their death was not caused by an accident, then I feel that this is needed. – Nascar1996 ^{(talk • cont)} 17:27, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

The article now features a separate table listing drivers who have died of a medical condition.--Fluidfellow (talk) 22:55, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

List of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series fatalities

How about creating a separate article listing premier series fatalities only? While the existing tables are sortable by series name, they show the name of the series at the time of the accident so that Grand National and Winston Cup fatalities are depicted separately.--Fluidfellow (talk) 21:57, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

I support dividing the table into sections for each of the three national series, former series, and touring series. It would add more organization to the article, but it may make it too long. However, I feel that there is no need to separate the article into more articles. – Nascar1996 ^{(talk • cont)} 17:26, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

I thought of making an additional table for premier series fatalities without removing them from the original table. The new table may have justified the creation of its own article to prevent the repetition of information within the same article.

Dividing the table into several sections would be the better solution, though, as people are certainly more interested in series than sanctioning bodies and prefer a list of fatalities that occurred in a specific series to having all of them lumped together. Hence, one table per series should be created in my opinion, an endeavor other editors may consider undertaking. (I have struggled with assigning series, even when using this breakdown).--Fluidfellow (talk) 22:55, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

I agree. Have a section for the Sprint Cup Series, Xfinity Series, Camping World Truck Series, touring series, and former series. – Nascar1996 ^{(talk • cont)} 17:53, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

The Sprint Cup Series fatalities have now been separated from those that occurred in other series. Further segmentation of the latter is up to more competent editors.--Fluidfellow (talk) 19:32, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Narrowing the scope of the article

I have suggested listing only NASCAR Cup Series fatalities here.--Fluidfellow (talk) 19:34, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Scope of the "other series"?

The lede states thet the article is about NASCAR fatalities, which ought to be obvious from the article title. I assumed that the "other series" were still supposed to by about NASCAR-sanctioned races on NASCAR-sanctioned tracks. Are the "Midget division" races NASCAR races? I found no mention of NASCAR in the references, but I know nothing about this subject. If this list is supposed to be restricted to NASCAR, then I suggest a cleanup if necessary, and a change to the section title from "Fatalities in other series" to "Fatalities in other NASCAR series", just to make it glaringly obvious to casual editors and perhaps keep them from adding non-NASCAR entries. (I came here from the help desk after an editor asked for help adding an ARCA fatality, which I declined to do). -Arch dude (talk) 17:15, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Unfortunately, a number of references support the entries they are linked to only partially, but the deaths that are currently being listed have been confirmed as NASCAR fatalities including those that have occurred in the Midget Division. Also, section titles have been clarified to indicate that only NASCAR fatalities should be included.--Fluidfellow (talk) 00:29, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

You Forgot Adam Petty

New Hampshire, 2000 174.233.16.98 (talk) 20:40, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Adam Petty is listed under "Fatalities in other NASCAR events".--Fluidfellow (talk) 00:29, 26 May 2023 (UTC)