Tim Flock

1955 Grand National Series Champion 1955, 1956 Daytona Beach Road Course Winner Highest career winning percentage for a full-time NASCAR driver (21%) Julius Timothy Flock (May 11, 1924 – March 31, 1998) was an American stock car racer.

Tim Flock finished 5th in NASCAR's inaugural Strictly Stock race at Charlotte, North Carolina in 1949; he drove an Oldsmobile 88 that he borrowed from his newlywed neighbors.

[2] Flock had a rhesus monkey co-driver named "Jocko Flocko" with him in his May 16, 1953, Grand National win at Hickory Motor Speedway.

[4] No other stock car events of any type were held at the track until the 1990s, and in 2010 the NASCAR Nationwide Series began racing there.

Despite their combined on-track success, Flock left Kiekhaefer's team immediately after his victory in the April 8 race at North Wilkesboro Speedway, citing stomach ulcers.

In his final race before "retiring" Flock was disqualified and banned from NASCAR as a result of "having too much solder on his carburetor screw" which was illegal.

[9] In 1959, he was hired by Charlotte Motor Speedway to work in various roles, including public relations and ticket sales.

The race featured such drivers as Cale Yarborough, Junior Johnson, Pete Hamilton, and Donnie Allison.

[citation needed] Flock died of liver and throat cancer on March 31, 1998, at age 73, during NASCAR's 50th anniversary season.

On May 22, 2013, Flock was named a member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame for 2014, to be inducted during Acceleration Weekend in January.