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Bill Elliott

Bill Elliott
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Full Name:  William Clyde Elliott
Born:  8 October 1955
Birthplace:  Cumming, Georgia, USA
Hometown:  Dawsonville, Georgia, USA
Father:  George
Siblings:  Ernie (b.1947) and Dan (b.1951)
Spouse:  Cindy
Children:  Starr, Chase, Brittany
Nicknames:  Awesome Bill from Dawsonville, Million Dollar Bill
Autoiography:  Awesome Bill from Dawsonville: My Life in NASCAR (2006)

Bill Elliott is a former NASCAR Winston Cup Champion and currently a part-time Sprint Cup driver.

He was born in Forsyth Hospital in Cumming, Georgia, the third of 3 boys.  In his senior year of high school he began working at his father's car dealership, Dahlonega Ford Sales.

In 1985 Bill Elliott won the Winston Million, and became the first NASCAR driver on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the headline, "Hot Bill Elliott Wins A Cool Million."

"Awesome Bill from Dawsonville" was voted NASCAR's Most Popular Driver more times than any other driver.  He was the first driver to win the Winston Million and holds the NASCAR record for fastest qualifying time at 212.809 mph.

Elliott went into partial retirement by racing only part-time after the 2003 season.  In 2006 his autobiography, Awesome Bill from Dawsonville:  My Life in NASCAR was published with co-author Chris Millard.

His accomplishments include:
1985 Daytona 500 Winner
Winston Million Winner, 1985
First NASCAR driver on the cover of Sports Illustrated
1987 Daytona 500 Winner
Fastest qualifying lap in NASCAR history, 212.809 mph at Talladega in 1987
1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion
1991-2000 NASCAR Most Popular Driver
2002 Brickyard 400 Winner

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Biography

The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Bill Elliott page on 14 April 2016, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

William Clyde "Bill" Elliott, also known as Wild Bill, Awesome Bill from Dawsonville, or Million Dollar Bill, is a retired NASCAR driver. He won the 1988 Winston Cup Championship and has garnered 44 wins in that series, including two Daytona 500 victories in 1985 and 1987 and a record four consecutive wins at Michigan International Speedway between 1985 and 1986. He holds the track record for fastest qualifying speed at Talladega at 212.809 mph and Daytona International Speedway at 210.364 mph, both of which were set in 1987; the mark at Talladega has since been the fastest speed for any NASCAR race ever.

Elliott won NASCAR's Most Popular Driver Award a record 16 times. He withdrew his name from the ballot for that award after winning it in 2002. In 2005, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue declared October 8 as Bill Elliott Day in the state of Georgia. He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007 and into the 2015 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Elliott has also been honored by the state legislature with a stretch of roadway in his native Dawsonville renamed Elliott Family Parkway.

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Bibliography

Title & Subtitle	Details
Awesome Bill from Dawsonville My Life in NASCAR	Year & Type: 2006 Nonfiction Author: Bill Elliott with Chris Millard Publisher: HarperCollins Dimensions: Content: 308 pages with black & white photographs ISBN: 978-0-06-112573-7 Subject: Stock Car Racing Topic: Bill Elliott Availability: Reference Desk

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Photographs

	Photographer:  Traverse, Mike Event:  1983 Van Scoy 500 License:  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Caption:  Bill Elliott, like most of the Ford teams, chose to run the 1982 model T-Bird at Pocono in 1983. I beleive that Elliott used the 82 model in most of the 83 races. I do remember he ran the 83 model at the 2nd Talledaga race. View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1983 Van Scoy 500 - 373KB
	1983 Like Cola 500 Photo by Mike Traverse View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1983 Like Cola 500 - 301KB This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License (CC BY-SA 2.0).
	1984 Bill Elliott's 1984 T-Bird at Pocono. Bill really started to come into his own in 1984 with 3 wins and in 1985 was turning some of the fastest laps we will see in Winston Cup (it will always be Winston Cup to me) history. Photo by Mike Traverse View photo of Bill Elliott at Pocono in 1984 - 699KB This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License (CC BY-SA 2.0).
	1984 Photo by Mike Traverse View photo of Bill Elliott at Pocono in 1984 - 227KB This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License (CC BY-SA 2.0).
	1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,067KB
	1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,067KB
	1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,067KB
	1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,220KB
	1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,426KB
	1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1985 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,514KB
	1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,150KB
	1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,388KB
	1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,448KB
	1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,405KB
	1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,417KB
	1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,443KB
	Show car outside the 1986 Goody's 500 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Show Car at the 1986 Goody's 500 - 1,516KB
	1986 Goody's 500 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Goody's 500 - 1,321KB
	1986 Goody's 500 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Goody's 500 - 1,089KB
	1986 Goody's 500 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1986 Goody's 500 - 1,432KB
	1986 Goody's 500 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1986 Goody's 500 - 1,431KB
	1986 Goody's 500 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of - 1,420KB
	1986 Goody's 500 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Goody's 500 - 1,435KB
	1986 Goody's 500 Pre-Race Event Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Street Car at the 1986 Goody's 500 - 1,498KB
	Show car at a 1986 Goody's 500 Pre-Race Event Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Show Car at the 1986 Goody's 500 - 1,274KB
	1986 Goody's 500 Pre-Race Event Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Signing Autographs in 1986 - 1,488KB
	1986 Goody's 500 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Goody's 500 - 1,318KB
	1986 Goody's 500 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1986 Goody's 500 - 1,271KB
	1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,409KB
	1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,290KB
	1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,505KB
	1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,407KB
	1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 Victory Lane Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,534KB
	1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 Victory Lane Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,513KB
	1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 Victory Lane Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,533KB
	1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 Victory Lane Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,497KB
	1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 Victory Lane Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1987 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,510KB
	Photo ©2013 Bill Crittenden 2013 GTR Summer NNL View photo of Bill Elliott Coors Model Car - 3.5MB
	Photo ©2013 Bill Crittenden 2013 GTR Summer NNL View photo of Bill Elliott Coors Model Car - 3.3MB
	1988 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1988 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,224KB
	1988 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1988 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,090KB
	1988 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1988 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,329KB
	1988 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1988 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,319KB
	1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,015KB
	1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,086KB
	1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,238KB
	1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,303KB
	1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,251KB
	1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 Photo courtesy Photo ©John Walczak.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 1989 Champion Spark Plug 400 - 1,237KB
	Photo Courtesy Photo ©1992 John Walczak All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test June 23, 1992 View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1992 Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test - 1,611KB
	Photo Courtesy Photo ©1992 John Walczak All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test June 23, 1992 View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1992 Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test - 290KB
	Photo Courtesy Photo ©1992 John Walczak All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test June 23, 1992 View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1992 Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test - 1,741KB
	Photo Courtesy Photo ©1992 John Walczak All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test June 23, 1992 View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1992 Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test - 238KB
	Photo Courtesy Photo ©1992 John Walczak All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test June 23, 1992 View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1992 Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test - 238KB
	Photo Courtesy Photo ©1992 John Walczak All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test June 23, 1992 View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1992 Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test - 1,635KB
	1994 Miller 400 Photo by mandj98 View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1994 Miller 400 - 190KB This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
	1997 Pocono 500 Good looking car, but Bill was never able to win a race with the #94. Photo by Mike Traverse View photo of Bill Elliott at the 1997 Pocono 500 - 81KB This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.
	Bill Elliott Car at the 2007 HSCRS San Jose Grand Prix Photo by Allan Hack View photo of Bill Elliott Car at the 2007 HSCRS San Jose Grand Prix - 5,776KB This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic License.
	1998 car at the MBNA Gold 400 - Matt Kenseth driving Matt made his Cup debut, substituting for Bill Elliott in the McDonald’s Ford at Dover in September 1998. The young Kenseth drove to an impressive sixth-place finish in his first run with NASCAR’s elite (I love the kid with the checkered flag behind the fence). Photo courtesy Darryl W. Moran Photography View photo of 1998 MBNA Gold 400 - Matt Kenseth - 823KB This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) License.
	Show Car at the 2002 Tropicana 400 Photo ©2002 Heidi Walczak View photo of Bill Elliott 2002 Tropicana 400 Show Car - 683KB
	Pit Box at the 2002 Tropicana 400 Photo ©2002 Heidi Walczak View photo of Bill Elliott 2002 Tropicana 400 Pit Box - 862KB
	Photo ©2003 Heidi Walczak 2003 Chicago Auto Show View photo of Bill Elliott Show Car - 622KB
	U.S. Navy photo by Joseph Buliavac October 21, 2005 Chief Aviation Ordnanceman Mark Stites takes the Oath of Enlistment read by professional NASCAR driver Bill Elliott at Memphis Motor Sports Park before the Sam’s Town 250 Busch Series race. View photo of Bill Elliott in 2005 - 627KB

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Documents

Date	Document Name & Details	Documents
1986	Bill Elliott Apparel by Super Press Super Press, Inc.	PNG - 133MB - 8 pages

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Merchandise

Type & Item #	Name	Details
Model Kit - AMT 6740	Coors Light Bill Elliott Ford Thunderbird	1:25 scale, #9
Model Kit - Monogram 2469	Bill Elliott's #94 McDonald's Thunderbat	1:24 scale, Jimmy Spencer #27
Collector Card - 1992 Maxx 11	Bill Elliott	#11 Budweiser Ford
Collector Card - 1992 Maxx 279	Race 15: Daytona	Pepsi 400, Bill Elliott #9 Coors Light Ford
Collector Card - 1996 Upper Deck Road to the Cup RC7	Bill Elliott	#94 McDonald's Ford Thunderbird
Collector Card - 1996 Upper Deck Road to the Cup RC56	Screamin' Steel: Bill Elliott McDonald's	#94 McDonald's Ford Thunderbird
Collector Card - 1996 Upper Deck Road to the Cup RC130	1995 Award Winners: Bill Elliott (8th in Pts.)	#94 McDonald's Ford Thunderbird

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Article Index

Date	Article	Author/Source
4 August 2002	NASCAR Winston Cup Series: Brickyard 400	Bill Elliott Ray Evernham Mike Ford
2 August 2003	NASCAR Winston Cup Series: Brickyard 400	Bill Elliott
11 January 2006	NASCAR Media Conference	Bill Elliott
17 February 2011	NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Gatorade Duel 1	Bill Elliott J.J. Yeley
25 January 2012	Walmart Gives Fans More Authentic NASCAR Merchandise, Savings on Tickets, Joins Forces with Racing Legend Bill Elliott	Walmart
3 July 2012	Walmart Sponsors Racecar in Daytona's Coke Zero 400 to Celebrate 50th Anniversary	Walmart
10 July 2013	NASCAR Media Conference	Bill Elliott
1 September 2013	NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: Chevy Silverado 250	Chase Elliott Bill Elliott Lance McGrew
29 February 2016	Donald J. Trump Endorsed by NASCAR CEO and Drivers Today Donald J. Trump was endorsed by Brian France, Chairman & CEO of NASCAR, popular retired driver Bill Elliott, and active drivers Chase Elliott, Ryan Newman, and David Lee Regan.	Press Release (text) Organization: Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. Topics: NASCAR, Brian France, Bill Elliott, Chase Elliott, Ryan Newman, David Ragan
20 March 2016	Random Lugnuts: One Final Lesson	Bill Crittenden

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