Bill Elliott(VI)
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Bill Elliott is known in NASCAR as "Million Dollar Bill" for winning
the Winston Million at Darlington Raceway in 1985. In 1983, Bill's
first win came at the defunct Riverside International Raceway in
Riverside, California (RIR gave Ricky Rudd and Tim Richmond first career wins
there). At the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama, Bill
Elliott set a track record of 212.809 mph and it still stands to this
day. After a long drought from being away from Victory Lane, Bill came
back in 2001 to win at the Homestead-Miami Speedway and in 2002 won at
the Pocono Raceway and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Today, Bill is
still driving the #9 car, but the famous #9 is a dodge and he is
driving for Evernham Motorsports. In 2001, after 7 years of not seeing
victory Lane, he and the #9 Dodge won at Homestead-Miami Speedway and
came back in 2002 and won at Pocono Raceway (Pennsylvania 500) and the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Brickyard 400).