Daugherty has always had more than a passing fancy with racing, and there's a reason he wore No. 43 in the NBA
When Brad Daugherty became the first Black team principal to win the Daytona 500, it probably was the first time many people in the motorsports arena had heard of him.
“I said, you know, I’m a racer. I’m a little different. I’m laying on the floor trying to figure out how to get our shock mounts a little bit higher. I’m that guy. You’re not. You don’t know a tie rod end from a ball joint. But this sport will take every dollar you put at it, and just suck it into a black hole. You can get used.”
The era in which Daugherty grew up in Western North Carolina a person’s interest focused on two pastimes—cars and playing ball—and Daugherty was involved in both. He met Richard Petty at around age 10 during a trip to“I’m standing at the fence and there’s a restroom,” Daugherty recalled. “When he came out of the bathroom, I was like, ‘Hey, Mr. Petty.’ He stopped. He saw me standing there and he beelined over to me. I never will forget it. He walked up to the fence, and he had his uniform on.
For 35 years, Daugherty has been involved in various forms of racing. He and former NASCAR Cup driver Robert Pressley grew up together around the one-third-mile New Asheville Speedway that’s now a state historic site. Pressley drove Late Models and Daugherty worked on them, something he “loved.” They raced throughout the Southeast and won NASCAR’s Mid-Atlantic Region championship.When Daugherty began playing in the NBA, he suggested to Pressley that they build a Busch Series car.
Daugherty also co-owned a Truck Series team with Jim Herrick in the mid-1990s before joining forces in NASCAR’s Cup Series with Tad and Jodi Geschickter. However, he wasn’t simply an owner. He raced Late Models for two or three years at Tri-County Motor Speedway and Hickory Motor Speedway in North Carolina and Myrtle Beach Speedway in South Carolina.“That was one of the dumbest things I ever did,” Daugherty said with a laugh. “I was like Fred Flintstone in the damn thing.
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