Johnny Rutherford

John Sherman Rutherford III, nicknamed Lone Star JR, is an American former racing driver whose Indy Car career spanned more than three decades and brought 27 wins and 23 pole positions in 314 starts. He began in modified stock cars in Dallas in 1959, won the USAC National Sprint Car Championship in 1965, and made his first Indianapolis 500 start in 1963. He became one of six drivers to win the Indianapolis 500 at least three times, winning in 1974, 1976 and 1980, and took the CART championship in 1980. He also made 35 NASCAR Cup Series starts between 1963 and 1988 and won his first, at Daytona International Speedway driving for Smokey Yunick, which made him one of the youngest winners of a points-paying NASCAR race.