TRIBUTES/MEMORIALS TO LEGENDS

            Marshall Teague                         

(1922-1959)

One of NASCAR's most colorful characters, Teague earned the nickname "King of the Beach"

 for his victories in 1951 and 1952 at the Daytona Beach & Road Course. 

From Marshall Teague’s first race on the NASCAR circuit in 1952 until his last race in 1959, he won seven races out of 23 starts and had four top tens. Marshall pretty much put the Hudson Hornet on the map. After winning five races in 1951, the Hudson was dubbed “The Teaguemobile” and Marshall was the first one to call this car the “Fabulous” Hudson Hornet.

He finished 6th in the 1952 Mexican Road Race and had an excellent 7th place finish as a rookie in the 1957 Indy 500. He was the American Automobile Association (predecessor of USAC) Champion in 1952 and 1954 and was runner-up in the USAC point standings in 1956. Repeatedly at odds with NASCAR founder Bill France over his participation in races sanctioned by the AAA, Teague was stripped of his NASCAR championship points even though he won 7 of the 23 events that he entered.  Marshall was the driver who got Superstar Herb Thomas started in a Hudson. Unfortunately, Marshall Teague was killed practicing on the new Daytona International Speedway in an Indy Car on February 11, 1959, six days before his 37th birthday. He was inducted into the Stock Car Racing Hall of Fame in 1966.