SCF_471 #4 Hershel McGriff

Hershel McGriff won a race in the initial year of the series with NASCAR competition in a racing career spans four decades. He won the 1950 Mexican Road Race. When it was known as the Pacific Coast Late Model series in 1954, McGriff made the most of his opportunity to drive car owner Frank Christian's Oldsmobile and finished sixth in the NASCAR Grand National points series despite missing the first 10 races of the year. McGriff won four of the last nine races in 1954, including back-to-back wins at Macon, Ga., and Charlotte, N.C., to account for all his career wins. He competed in the first Southern 500 at Darlington International Raceway. He accumulated the most wins (14) at the old Riverside (Calif.) International Raceway.

From the rough-and-tumble 1950s to the finely tuned 90's, McGriff accumulated 35 victories, and he is Winston West's winningest active competitor. He has competed in a stock car at LeMans, France, in Australia and in Japan. He won the 1986 NASCAR Winston West Series Championship. He tops the list of pole awards in Winston West Series poles (35).