Greg Sacks

Greg Sacks (born November 3, 1952) is an American former stock car racing driver.

He won the 1985 Firecracker 400 at Daytona International Speedway acting as an R&D driver for DiGard Motorsports.

Early in his racing career, Sacks was a successful driver in what is now the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour.

In 1984, Sacks made a full attempt at the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, once again in a car owned by his father, only now it ran as No.

Sacks made 29 out of the 30 races, finished 19th in points and runner-up to Rusty Wallace for the NASCAR Rookie of the Year award.

Sacks qualified ninth and defeated pole-sitter Bill Elliott to earn his only NASCAR Winston Cup Series victory.

The win was considered to be one of NASCAR's biggest upsets, as Sacks's car was only scheduled to run a set number of laps before going behind the wall to make changes, but his car kept competing for the win, therefore DiGard decided to let Sacks race as normal.

The next year, Sacks found himself running a limited schedule as DiGard slowly went bankrupt.

48 Pontiac for most of the season, joining with Hendrick Motorsports for the Autoworks 500 at Phoenix International Raceway as part of the driving team gathering in-race footage for the "Days of Thunder" movie.

Sacks started off 1990 in a familiar situation with no ride, driving part-time for Hendrick's development team.

17 car for three races—the Champion Spark Plug 400, Busch 500, and the Heinz Southern 500, with a best finish of second at Michigan during this three-race stretch.

He started 1992 with Larry Hedrick Motorsports, but suffered injuries in a lap five crash at the Champion Spark Plug 400, and only drove one race for the rest of the season.

Nineteen-ninety four also marked the second time in his Cup career that he completed the full schedule, piloting the No.

[2] Later in the season, he filled in for rookie driver Robby Gordon, who had suffered burns in the Indianapolis 500.

Originally set to debut at the Brickyard 400, the date was pushed to the fall race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

In February 2005, Raabe departed to form his own race team (Chevrolet), leaving all of the (Dodge) Daytona Speed equipment in the care of Sacks.

88 car owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the Nationwide Series Subway Jalapeño 250 on July 2 at Daytona.

[4] Sacks and his family, who own Grand Touring Vodka, sponsored JR Motorsports for the 2011 Nationwide Series season.