Posted by Chad But in his native state of Wisconsin, heīs considered an icon. Trickle never won at NASCARīs highest level, which is now called Nextel Cup. But he might be the winningest grassroots-level stock-car driver of all time. There is no record-keeping clearinghouse for short-track racing, but people say with a straight face that Trickle might have won more than 1,000 races in his career _ proving, perhaps, that you donīt have to be holding a rod and reel to tell fish stories in Wisconsin. Trickle once proclaimed to a group of patrons in a bar in Indianapolis that "there were only two big things in Wisconsin in the 1970s: The Green Bay Packers and Dick Trickle." Trickle, now well into his 60s, still races occasionally; heīs expected to appear at the Slinger Nationals at Slinger Speedway in Slinger, Wis. next month. NASCAR driver Scott Wimmer, who grew up racing in Wisconsin and calls Trickle a family friend, said the old man still brags that he can win any race he enters. "You canīt argue with him," said Wimmer, who was in suburban Milwaukee for Saturday nightīs Busch Series race. "Heīs won more races than anyone in the world, I think." Wimmer credits Trickle for helping Wisconsin drivers make inroads into NASCAR, a world where drivers who werenīt from the South used to be looked at skeptically. "Every time you talk to him, you learn something," Wimmer said. _AP Sports Writer Chris Jenkins
on 7/5/2006, 4:54 pm
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WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) _ Nationally, stock car racer Dick Trickle has been an easy punchline for script writers on ESPNīs Sportscenter and various other amateur scatologists.
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