Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts Jr. (January 20, 1929 – July 2, 1964) was an American stock car racer.

He was a pitcher for the Zellwood Mud Hens, an American Legion baseball team, where he earned the nickname, "Fireball" because of his fastball.

"Fireball" Roberts continued to amass victories on the circuit, despite the changes in NASCAR, as it moved away from shorter dirt tracks to superspeedways in the 1950s and 1960s.

He won both the Daytona 500 and Firecracker 250 events in 1962,[2] driving a black and gold 1962 Pontiac built by car builder legend, Smokey Yunick.

Witnesses at the track claimed they heard Roberts screaming, "Ned, help me", from inside his burning car after the wreck.

Roberts suffered second-and third-degree burns over 80 percent of his body and was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition.

[6] Despite having his career cut short and having never won a Grand National title, Roberts was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.

They also instituted the five-point safety harness, and the special, contoured driver's seat, as requirements for all NASCAR vehicles.

This streaming TV "adventurally" series, headquartered at Universal Studios in Florida, covers 40 teams as they compete in an 8-day, 2000 mile race and life-sized trivia game to raise money for missing and exploited children organizations.