It wasn’t that long ago that Dystany Spurlock was driving tractor-trailers. The 34-year-old Virginia native has a commercial driver’s license and would find work hauling all kinds of things with an 18 ...

Former Charlotte Motor Speedway boss Humpy Wheeler became known as the P.T. Barnum of auto racing, staging outlandish stunts during pre-race activities. Wheeler’s relationships ran deep and long ...

Humpy Wheeler, the longtime president and general manager at Charlotte Motor Speedway whose creativity helped lift NASCAR into the nation’s consciousness, has died. He was 86. Howard Augustine “Humpy” ...

With fire-breathing robots and death-defying school-bus stunts, he brought spectacle to stock-car racing as the sport boomed in the 1970s and beyond. By Alex Williams Humpy Wheeler, a racing promoter ...

H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler, who helped usher NASCAR’s presence onto the national stage in the 1970s with imaginative, often over-the-top pre-race shows and a completely new vision to race-track facilities, ...