Benjamin Stewart Parsons (July 12, 1941 – January 16, 2007) was an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst/pit reporter on SETN, TBS, ABC, ESPN, NBC, and TNT. He became …

Sep 16, 2024 · NASCAR is grieving the loss of one of its most revered figures, Benny Parsons, who passed away at the age of 65. Parsons, a celebrated NASCAR champion, succumbed to …

Apr 19, 2025 · Parsons entered the NASCAR scene under the radar. Like many of his peers, he came from modest roots. Raised by his grandmother in Wilkes County, North Carolina, he later relocated to …

Benny Parsons, a Wilkes County, N.C., native who called Detroit home, won the 1973 NASCAR premier series championship in one of the most dramatic fashions in series history. He won 21 times in 526 …

Few are more compelling than that of Benny Parsons. Benny grew up far back in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in a beautiful, remote cove known as Parsonsville.

Benny Parsons made a career of beating the odds, rising up from a childhood of poverty in the North Carolina foothills to a job as a Detroit cabbie, and eventually, becoming a NASCAR champion....

Feb 10, 2025 · Throughout his lengthy career as a NASCAR Cup Series driver and his subsequent award-winning tenure as a television personality, the late Benny Parsons was nicknamed “Mr. Nice …

Jan 16, 2007 · Benny Parsons was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, 1941. His first race car was a 1954 Ford, which he drove in competition at the Mt. Clemens Speedway in 1963. Benny competed at …

Benny Parsons Benjamin Stewart Parsons July 12, 1941 - January 16, 2007 Ellerbe, North Carolina 2017 NASCAR Hall of Fame Inductee One of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers NASCAR Cup Series …

While still racing part time in the 1980s, Parsons began a transition into broadcasting, first working as a pit reporter for ABC and ESPN and also TBS and TNT. After retiring from full-time racing, Parsons …