Jocko maggiacomo biography templates
Jim began in FJ with a one-off called the “Jocko”....
Everyone involved in the disaster recovered, and the rescuer, a guy named Jocko Maggiacomo who also had burns, was later given a heroism award.
Car number 63 has started 146 races and has 0 wins, 1 pole, 2 top 5s, 15 top 10s, and 87 DNFs in the NASCAR Cup Series.
Jocko Maggiacomo Jr. started car #63 in 22 of his 23 career starts.
Jocko, a driver from Poughkeepsie, New York, began his career as a sports car racer, and won the 1976 SCCA Trans Am Category 1 Championship. Starting in 1977, Jocko started racing in select Winston Cup Series events- mostly in the northeast.
Jocko was Unable to avoid a spinning Bobby Allison in the 1988 Miller High Life 500 at Pocono. The t-bone crash with Maggiacomo ended Allison’s driving career.
According to Maggiacomo’s autobiography, he chose to end his career too out of post-trauma stress disorder and guilt of t-boning Allison.
A random name I can think of is David Stremme.Watkins Glen 1988 would be Jocko’s final career start.
R.L. Combs started #63 in a handful of events each year from 1957-1959. 20 of his 21 career starts came in #63.
From 1966-1967 Larry Manning competed