Son Mardy, 50, carries the wild gene in the family and is now the crew chief for driver Corey Heim in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
Butch Lindley suffered a head injury in a racing crash at Bradenton, Fla., and remained in a coma for five years and two months before dying of pneumonia June 6, 1990.Son Mardy has gone on to become a fine racer and top-flight NASCAR crew chief.
The news, as the rest of the Lindley family would discover soon, was bad. Butch Lindley, a a NASCAR Late Models champion in both 1977 and 1978, and widely considered one of the best short-track stock car racers in the country, had been seriously hurt in a single-car accident at DeSoto Speedway.RacingOneMardy, his mother Joan and several other family members flew on a private plane to the Bradenton area later that night.
“It was terrible,” Mardy said. “I remember our last time together before he went to Bradenton. You always kind of hope and hope it will work out. They sent him to a facility in Richmond to do an experimental drug. They said he woke up with that, but I don’t think he really did. He couldn’t overcome it. I felt bad. Now that I’m older, I wish he’d never had to deal with any of it, that it had ended that night in Bradenton.
Mardy had short-track success, following his father as track champion at Greenville-Pickens Speedway, their hometown track, and later scoring 11 wins in the 2000s on the generally tough Pro Cup late model tour. Lindley’s success led to what amounted to a tryout in a Richard Childress Racing Xfinity Series car at Indianapolis Raceway Park Aug. 2, 2003. Lindley qualified in mid-pack and was lapped, but a pair of pit stops resulted in a faster car, and he raced with the lead group the rest of the way, although a lap down. He finished 16th.Mechanic Jake"Suitcase" Elder, left, talks with Butch Lindley during a 1970s race weekend.
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