{"id":1354357,"date":"2021-04-23T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1354357"},"modified":"2021-04-23T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:57:38","slug":"nascar-hall-of-famer-bobby-isaac-tragically-passed-away-four-years-after-voice-told-him-quit-race-talladega-fellow-driver-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/nascar-hall-of-famer-bobby-isaac-tragically-passed-away-four-years-after-voice-told-him-quit-race-talladega-fellow-driver-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Isaac Tragically Passed Away Almost Exactly Four Years After ‘a Voice' Told Him to Quit a Race at Talladega in Which a Fellow Driver Was Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NASCAR<\/a> Hall of Famer Bobby Isaac was easily one of the best drivers of his era, once winning 36 races in a five-year span (he won 37 total for his career). But on a bizarre day in August 1973 at famed Talladega Superspeedway<\/a>, which was then called Alabama International Motor Speedway (we're just going to go with Talladega here to make things easier), Isaac just quit. Midway through the Talladega 500, he exited his car and just walked off the track, never to compete on a full-time basis on the Cup Series<\/a> again before his tragic death four years later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there's certainly more to the story as his famous exit has long been tied to another tragic death, that of Larry Smith, who died earlier in that same race. And, of course, there was “the voice.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry Smith died following a single-car wreck on lap 14 of the 1973 Talladega 500<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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