Ray Tucker, among North Carolina’s winningest Late Model drivers over a 40-year career that included successful stints in the No. 1 Dunn Benson Motorsports car and Lee Roy Rumley’s famed entry, died Monday at his Greensboro, N.C., home. He was 68. | Slideshow
He died after a battle with cancer, according to his son Daniel Tucker, the family’s third-generation racer.
Tucker accumulated 478 victories and 20 track titles at tracks including Ace Speedway in Burlington, N.C., 311 Motor Speedway in Madison, N.C., Log Cabin Raceway in Rocky Mount, Va., Wayne County Speedway in Pikeville, N.C., and Clary’s Speedway in Brinkleyville, N.C…