Mike Chase (April 17, 1952 – April 18, 2025)

Chase was a professional stock car racing driver. Winner of
the 1994 series championship in the NASCAR Winston West
Series, he also competed in the Winston Cup Series, Busch
Series, and Craftsman Truck Series and worked for Penske
Racing as a crewman. He was 73.

After retiring from competition, Mike Chase worked for several
race teams, including Wood Brothers Racing; he worked for
Penske Racing as a fabricator. Chase was also a crew chief
in the Nationwide Series.

Chase was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of
Fame in 2010.
(From Wikipedia)

On February 22, 1959, Lee Petty defeated Johnny Beauchamp
in a photo finish at the just-opened Daytona International
Speedway in Florida to win the first-ever Daytona 500.

Ralph Dale Earnhardt (April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001)

Dale Earnhardt is widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history and was named as one of the NASCAR’s 50
Greatest Drivers class in 1998.

The NASCAR world lost one of its legends Saturday when
Bobby Allison died at the age of 86.

NASCAR released a statement from Allison’s family that
said he died at home in Mooresville, North Carolina.

A cause of death wasn’t given, but Allison had been in
declining health for years.

On October 5, 1919, a young Italian car mechanic and engineer
named Enzo Ferrari took part in his first car race, a hill climb in
Parma, Italy. He finished fourth. Ferrari was a good driver, but
not a great one: In all, he won just 13 of the 47 races he entered.

Many people say that this is because he cared too much for the
sports cars he drove: He could never bring himself to ruin an
engine in order to win a race.

In the mid-1920s, Ferrari retired from racing cars in order to
pursue his first love: building them.

      
Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari  (1898 – 1988)