The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee was racing for a cure long before a 1990 crash changed his life.
Darrell Gwynn wants to be remembered as the winner of 18 NHRA Top Fuel races and 15 as a team owner
And that tugged at NHRA Top Fuel drag racer Darrell Gwynn’s heart, with not only empathy for a fellow Miami-area athlete but simply for a fellow human forced into an unimaginable struggle he didn’t invite. So Gwynn displayed the Miami Project’s wheelchair logo on his dragster, and soon his sponsor, Coors, became involved.
In 2002, he established the Darrell Gwynn Foundation, which provides support for those with paralysis and works to prevent spinal cord injuries. In 2014, he folded his efforts into the Miami Project as the Darrell Gwynn Quality of Life Chapter of the Buoniconti Fund.
“I look at this as the greatest professional accomplishment of my life,” Gwynn said. “We won a championship and won a lot of races, but to get recognized by the largest motorsports-related Hall of Fame is remarkable for me. It was about what we were able to accomplish in a short period of time. What means the most to me is the former inductees vote on who gets into the Hall of Fame, so the racers voted to elect me in. When your peers vote you in, that means the most to me.
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