Richard Harold Brooks was an American NASCAR driver.
32 Facts About Dick Brooks
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Dick Brooks held off veteran Buddy Baker by 7.2 seconds for the Talladega win.
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Dick Brooks drove for the underfunded Junie Donlavey team throughout his racing career.
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Dick Brooks made his Grand National Series debut at the first Daytona 500 Qualifying Race in 1969, driving a self-owned Plymouth.
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Dick Brooks had a solid year, and with 12 top-tens he finished 21st in the final standings.
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Dick Brooks continued to drive his Plymouth in 1970 and scored 15 top-five finishes in 34 races, improving to 13th in the final points standings.
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Dick Brooks came close to winning the 1970 Georgia 500, but eventually finished third to Richard Petty and Bobby Isaac after having led 133 laps.
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Dick Brooks's best run of the season came at Darlington where he finished second to Buddy Baker.
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Dick Brooks started the 1972 season at the Atlanta 500, driving the No 90 Ford for Junie Donlavey.
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Dick Brooks made three additional starts for Donlavey with a best finish of eighth, at the Winston 500.
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Dick Brooks drove five races for Marvin Welty but failed to finish any of them.
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Dick Brooks only finished one other race that year, when he drove for Bill Champion at the Texas 500.
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Dick Brooks started out his 1973 season driving the No 6 Owens Racing Dodge to a third-place finish at the Daytona 500.
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Dick Brooks returned to Donlavey and drove eight races for that team in 1973.
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Dick Brooks returned to Donlavey for the 1975 season, driving the No 90 Ford .
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Dick Brooks's best result that season was a second place, in the Delaware 500 at Dover Downs International Speedway.
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Dick Brooks finished in the top ten in the final points standings for the first time.
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Dick Brooks continued to drive for Donlavey Racing in 1976.
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Dick Brooks scored 18 top-ten finishes that year and he finished 10th in the final points standings for the second year in succession.
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Dick Brooks continued his good run for Donlavey Racing in 1977.
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Dick Brooks scored a total of 20 top-ten finishes that season of which he finished seven in the top five.
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Dick Brooks finished sixth in the final points standings, which would turn out to be a career high.
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Dick Brooks had another good year in 1978, with 17 top-ten finishes.
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Dick Brooks finished eight in the final points standings and left the Donlavey team at the end of the season.
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Dick Brooks moved to the team of Nelson Malloch in 1979, driving the No 05 Oldsmobile and Chevy.
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Dick Brooks had a lot of mechanical issues during the season and only managed to finish 13 of 27 races that year.
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Dick Brooks scored eight top-ten finishes during the year and finished 22nd in the final points standings.
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Dick Brooks stayed with Malloch for the 1980 season but left the team after he only finished five of the first 16 races.
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Dick Brooks entered in three more races that season, which he drove for Banjo Matthews.
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Dick Brooks only drove five races each season in 1981 and 1982 before reuniting with Donlavey for 1983.
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Dick Brooks led the most laps in the third race of the year, at Rockingham, but retired on lap 384.
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Dick Brooks lent his name to a series of car dealerships in North and South Carolina.