David Into

David Into
Nationality  United States
Born Ridgeland, South Carolina
Died April 20, 2015
Teams Fred Hughes
Starts 67
Wins 23
Championship titles
10× Oglethorpe Speedway Park Champion

Military career

Allegiance  United States of America
Service/branch Army
Years of service 1962–1964

David Into (died April 20, 2015) is an American racing driver who won the NASCAR Weekly Series national championship in 1984.[1]

Born in Ridgeland, South Carolina, Into has lived most of his life in Hardeeville, with the exception of a few years in Savannah, GA. He graduated from Ridgeland-Hardeeville High School in 1957, and attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia for a few years before joining the U.S. Army. He served from 1962–64, and upon returning home he pursued the field of architecture, becoming a draftsman.

Racing Career

Driving a Dirt Late Model[2] for owner Fred Hughes, Into won 23 of the 67 races that he entered. Most were at Summerville Speedway in South Carolina and Oglethorpe Speedway Park in Georgia, with some at several other tracks in three states. Into won the track championship at Oglethorpe that year, starting a string of ten championships in eleven years there.[1]

He worked for the Savannah architectural firm of Gunn, Meyerhoff and Shay.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Schaefer, Paul. Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA, 2006. ISBN 0-9789261-0-2. pp. 17-22.
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120619222426/http://www.ospracing.net/site/history.htm. Archived from the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Savannah Now: The King of Oglethorpe Speedway Park
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