Are Cale and LeeRoy Yarbrough related?

Cale Yarborough and LeeRoy Yarbrough are not related to each other, despite the similarity in their last names. In 1962, Cale Yarborough ran eight races for Buesink, Don Harrison, and Wildcat Williams, earning his first top ten at the Daytona 500 Qualifying Race when he finished tenth.

Cale Yarborough’s 83 wins tie him with Jimmie Johnson for sixth on the all-time NASCAR Cup Series winner’s list behind Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip.

Cale Yarborough competed in 18 races in the 1981 season in the No. 27 Valvoline-sponsored Buick for M.C. Anderson, winning his fourth Firecracker 400 and his fifth Coca-Cola 500 at Atlanta.

In 1986, Cale Yarborough won his final career pole at the Firecracker 400 and had five Top 10 finishes. In 1972, Yarborough became the first Republican elected to the Florence County Council since Reconstruction.

After retiring, Cale Yarborough owned Cale Yarborough Motorsports and several successful agricultural businesses as well as being a rancher and farmer himself on his ranch at his home in Florence, South Carolina.