Dick Trickle's No More

[46Tbird]

RIP

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/dick-trickle-former-nascar-driver-dead-self-inflicted-202844077.html

Former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Lincoln County (N.C.) police.

At about noon on Thursday, the Lincoln County Communications Center received a call indicating that there would be a dead body at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Boger City, and it would be the speaker's. Return calls to the number went unanswered. Crews arriving at the scene found Trickle's body lying near his pickup truck.

Trickle ran in 303 races in the Sprint Cup series over the course of 24 years, finally retiring in 2002. His best year was 1989, where he notched six top-5s, including three third-place finishes, driving the #84 Miller High Life Buick. He ended that year ranked 15th, ahead of Michael Waltrip, Brett Bodine and Richard Petty, among others.

[jw33]

The name gets me every time.

[Tyrone Biggums]

The name gets me every time.

It got him worse.

[2011GT]

Couldn't handle the name calling anymore?

[Grant]

Sucks to hear he dried up.

[dcs13]

That sucks. He was an old school racer...Yeah, that name had to suck growing up, guess that's why he was such a tough sob...

[Buick355]

Apparently not so tough since he took the coward's way out.

[Captain Crawfish]

His decision his life. He took no one with him obviously he was just tired of running the race. Rip

[Trip McNeely]

I saw that earlier and I thought it was a joke because of the movie, then I remembered I was thinking of COLE Trickle.

[Kart21]

That Sucks

[Grape]

terminal cancer, chose to not sit around and wait....

[YALE]

RIP, Mr. Trickle.

[Buick355]

He has three children, which I'm sure are middle aged by now, but that's still shitty. No matter how bad my health gets I would never put my family through a suicide.

[jw33]

terminal cancer, chose to not sit around and wait....

That is what I was thinking. Any word on what kind?

[Grape]

Racers look at death differently, my hats off to him for being a badass and taking control. Death is only bad for those of us left behind, but it is incredibly selfesh to expect someone to lay there and hurt for you, only so you wont miss them. Rip to a bad motherfucker.