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COLUMBIA, S.C. —NASCAR Hall of Famer Cotton Owens died Thursday morning. He was 88.
Owens was part of the Hall’s class of 2013 announced two weeks ago. He’ll be inducted in February along with Rusty Wallace, Leonard Wood and the late Herb Thomas and Buck Baker.
“We are all consoled by the fact that Cotton was voted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame before his death,” NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France said.
Owens won nine times on NASCAR’s top circuit, but he might have been better known as an owner, fielding cars for Hall of Fame drivers such as Junior Johnson and David Pearson. Owens won nine times as a driver and 38 as an owner.
