Dick Trickle is a former Nascar Cup Series and Xfinity Series driver who competed from 1970-2002. Though he only made sporadic Nascar starts until 1989, when he was called upon to replace the injured Mike Alexander. Trickle's Nascar career was secondary to his short track career throughout the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. Billed the winningest driver of all time, he won over 1,000 feature races. 7 ARTGO championships, 2 ASA championships, 4 time Slinger Nationals winner, 3 time World Series of Asphalt Super Late Model champion. In Nascar he won the 1989 Rookie of the Year honors, the oldest driver to do so at age 48. Unfortunately Trickle never found victory lane in the Nascar Cup Series, but he did win twice in the then Busch Series, now Xfinity Series.

Trickle did drive for several different race teams while in Nascar, such as Stavola Brothers Racing, Bud Moore Engineering, Donlavey Racing and Cale Yarborough Motorsports. He would retire from Nascar in 2002. After suffering for several years with excruciating pain that doctors could not find the source of, Trickle took his own life in 2013 at Forest Lawn Cemetery. He was 71 years old.

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