Cale Yarborough was born in the unincorporated community of Sardis near Timmonsville, South Carolina, United States of America. He was the oldest of three sons of Julian and Annie Mae Yarborough.
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Julian was a tobacco farmer, cotton gin operator, and store owner who was killed in a private airplane crash when Cale was around ten years of age.
William Caleb “Cale” Yarborough was born on March 27, 1939. In 1957, Cale Yarborough made his debut as a driver at the Southern 500, driving the No. 30 Pontiac for Bob Weatherly, starting 44th and finishing 42nd.
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Cale Yarborough was a three-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Driver of the Year Award (1977, 1978, 1979). Yarborough won a career-high and modern-era record 14 poles in 1980.
Cale Yarborough won two races in 1967 at the Atlanta 500 and the Firecracker 400 for the Wood Brothers. Cale Yarborough died at the McLeod Hospice House in Florence, South Carolina on December 31, 2023.
Cale Yarborough competed in 18 races in the 1981 season in the No. 27 Valvoline-sponsored Buick for M.C. Anderson, winning his fourth Firecracker 400 and his fifth Coca-Cola 500 at Atlanta.
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