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The crash occurred at the now-defunct Riverside International Raceway in Southern California.
While NASCAR provides memories of great races and excitement, there’s also a sad side to the sport, namely, the number of drivers that have been killed behind the wheel.Dale Earnhardt, who was killed in a last-lap wreckBut there have been a number of other notable drivers killed including Neal Bonnett, Fireball Roberts, Tiny Lund, J.D. McDuffie, Kenny Irwin and Adam Petty. Other drivers have also been killed, but not necessarily in races, including Alan Kulwicki and Davey Allison .
According to reports, Weatherly, whose car did not have a window net installed because he feared being trapped in a burning car, and who himself was not wearing a shoulder harness or seat belts, was coming around a turn when his car slid into a retaining wall. Sadly—and with some irony—Weatherly’s grave marker is a sculpture of RIR, with a checkered flag indicating the spot on the track where his fatal crash occurred.RacingOneJoseph Herbert Weatherly wasn’t forgotten by his peers, the racing media or his fans. He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009, the American Motorcycle Association Hall of Fame in 1998, was named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998.
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