Neil Castles
Neil Castles was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States on January 22nd, 1934 and is the American Race Car Driver. At the age of 90, Neil Castles biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Castles made his NASCAR Cup Series debut in June 1957 at Columbia Speedway, finishing 51 laps before engine failure forced him to record a did not finish. He went on to win 25-lap qualifying races at Darlington Raceway (1967) and Rockingham Speedway (1969). Three years later, he won the NASCAR Grand National East Series, a second-level series beneath the Winston Cup Series, which would ultimately prove to be his most successful NASCAR campaign. He also won at the Greenville-Pickens Speedway in the spring of 1972. Even though he failed to win a race in his nineteen-year career, Castles managed to record 51 finishes in the top five and 178 finishes in the top ten. Out of 90,509 laps, Castles led 70 of them. His total mileage in his career was 65,412.8 miles (105,271.7 km).
There was a short story about Castles from American Zoom, a book authored by Peter Golenbock. Castles was an also-ran of the old days who once found himself having an uncharacteristically good day. He had lapped Curtis Turner, but the flagman apparently did not believe it, for he kept giving Castles the move-over flag to let Turner around him. As Castles told the story: "The starter kept doing this, and I was getting real mad, so I just picked up my gun and when I come by the stand the next time I took aim and shot that flag out of his hand."
By the end of his racing career, Castles managed to earn $276,854 in total winnings ($1,318,375.51 when adjusted for inflation). At the time of his death, his 498 starts in the NASCAR Cup Series were the third-most by a driver who did not have a victory, behind J. D. McDuffie (653) and Buddy Arrington (560).
Castles also worked in the film industry as a stunt driver, beginning in the 1950s about the time that he started racing. After he and his friends were recruited as extras for filming at the Occoneechee Speedway, he volunteered to replace the stuntman who was stuck in California. He later featured in that capacity in Thunder Road (1958), Speedway (1968, doubling for Elvis Presley), The Last American Hero (1973), Greased Lightning (1977), and Six Pack (1982). He also acted in The Night of the Cat (1973) and Challenge (1974).
In 2019, Castles published a memoir of his life in NASCAR and in the film industry.