Meet The Fake NASCAR Driver That Competed In The 1982 Winston 500
Drivers have been racing under fake names since the start of racing began. Some of them were rich aristocrats that needed to protect their identity from a disapproving family. Some of them didn’t want to hurt mom’s feelings. Some of them were women trying to get away with racing under an ambiguous name. But I can only think of one of them that didn’t actually really exist: L. W. Wright.
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The Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper, to promote a new entrant named L. W. Wright.
The announcement read as follows: