2013 J. Johnson In 1990, Konami released the first officially licensed NASCAR game, Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge for MS-DOS. On October 5, 2008, Georgia State declared the day Bill Elliott Day. Elliott won three races and $855,000 last year, down from his combined 12 victories and $2.2 million the previous two seasons. The late George Elliott began the racing in the Elliotts family with fast fords. She has 17.7k followers and often tweets about her son and her husband. The superwoman believes in balancing organization and time management for a balanced family. Once, Bill visited her studio to click some photos of him in his driver's uniform and this is when the couple first met. Elliott also withdrew from the ballot as NASCAR's Most Popular Driver, and encouraged his long-time fans to vote for his friend and long-time rival Dale Earnhardt. The success of Melling Racing may have come to an end after Elliott left at the end of 1991, but Elliott would be more successful in the years to come. He also has one son William Clyde II who is also known as Chase, and he is also a NASCAR driver. 46 Red Line Oil-sponsored Chevrolet for Whitney Motorsports at Talladega but J. J. Yeley would finish the race. Bill Elliott 2023: Wife, net worth, tattoos, smoking & body facts - Taddlr 91 Evernham Dodge in several events. In 2011, Elliott did not return to Wood Brothers Racing, but ran 4 races for Phoenix Racing in the No. That did not include the June Michigan race where qualifying was rained out, and the July Pocono race pole was where he started second, but further investigation led NASCAR to throw out the winning pole time for illegal fuel additives, retroactively awarding Elliott the pole award, money, and credit towards the season-long award for most poles won.[11]. He also collected four poles and finished 3rd in the final points standings for the second year in a row. Elliott has also been honored by the state legislature with a stretch of roadway (the entirety of Georgia State Route 183) in his native Dawson County renamed Elliott Family Parkway. Starr Elliott lives in Dawsonville and is married. Earnhardt would win the award for 15 straight years from 2003 to 2017, a NASCAR record. The racer is the youngest driver to win a nationwide NASCAR championship (Xfinity in 2014) as a rookie of the year. Chase has won a win in the 2020 NASCAR All-Star Race, and 17 career Cup Series wins at Bristol Motor Speedway. From left, NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee Bill Elliott and wife, Cindy (key)* Most laps led. This page was last edited on 29 April 2023, at 01:12. ATHENS, Ga. (AP) Georgia 's governor on Friday signed a law to establish a cold case unit within the Georgia . Ken Schrader returned to the No. Cindy also acts as the personal manager for her husband and son, along with being the Marketing director of the Georgia racing hall of fame and Bill Elliott racing hall of fame. 9 Chevrolet. That lone win in 1991 would be the only time in his career that Elliott won in a car that was not painted red. In the year 2005, the Georgia State Legislature declared October 8 as Bill Elliott Day in the state of Georgia. He married Dolly Moore that same year. With Tony Pollard on the franchise tag , Robinson would be the Cowboys . 21 to try to get the car back into the Top 35 points at Lowes Motor Speedway.[22]. Brittany Ann Eliott is a 2010 graduate of Harvester Christian Academy in Douglasville. In mid-1977, Elliott bought a Mercury Montego from Bobby Allison after his split from Penske Racing to replace the inferior Torino, and the move paid off. 9, which was owned by Melling, his championship-winning team. He followed that up with his 8th win of the season at Pocono, then leading 100 of 188 laps at Talladega and finishing 4th, and then leading 90 of 200 laps and winning at Michigan, his 9th of the season. There are streets and roads named after Bill back in Georgia ( Source : nascar ). About . He also competed in select NASCAR Busch Series events for Rusty Wallace and also drove the No. 2016 J. Johnson He also brought back the Bill Elliott Racing moniker when he drove the 98 car twice in 2004, one with Coke C2 Sponsorship and one with McDonald's. Bill Elliot and wife Cindy Elliot have been married for 30 years since 1992. Even though he struggled the entire six years as a driver/owner and did not win a single race, Elliott's fans still voted him as NASCAR's Most Popular Driver. Elliott left Melling to join Junior Johnson & Associates in 1992, replacing Geoffrey Bodine in the No. It would also be the 50th pole of his career. Going into the "second leg" of the Winston Million promotion, which was the Winston 500 at Talladega, Elliott completed one of the greatest and most memorable comebacks in NASCAR history. Chase Elliott Mother Cindy Elliott Wikipedia, Age Harry Gant led 84 laps before the engine gave way on his car, and Dale Earnhardt who dominated most of the race leading 147 of the 367 laps, crashed out at around lap 318. Brittany Elliott also joined the Air Force in Security Forces. After back-to-back 3rd place finishes at Watkins Glen and Michigan, Elliott overtook the points lead for the first time in the season with a 2nd place finish in the second race at Bristol.