Jim Reed (February 21, 1926 – June 29, 2019) was a NASCAR Grand National driver.
[1] Reed has raced 16,335 laps[1] (and successfully led 1,472 of them)[1] – the equivalent of 14,017.3 miles (22,558.7 km) from his beginnings 1951 to his final NASCAR season as a driver in 1963.
[1] A wreck while driving a Ford late in the 1963 Grand National season caused a broken vertebra; Reed eventually retired from NASCAR.
At Heidelberg Raceway, Reed won a race that took place on July 21, 1959, on a ¼-mile dirt track.
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