Henry “Smokey” Yunick, an innovative stock car mechanic and owner who helped develop Chevrolet’s original small-block engine in 1955, died Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Fla., of complications from ...

NASCAR championship crew chief Harry Hyde, who was the inspiration for the character Harry Hogge in the movie “Days of Thunder”, is this year’s recipient of the Smokey Yunick Award. Named after the ...

Nearly a year after discussing the possibility of using Smokey Yunick’s iconic paint scheme, the talk has turned into reality at Germain Racing, which fields the No. 13 Chevrolet in NASCAR Cup ...

Henry Yunick started life 76 years ago as a po country boy, as rod patron George Poteet described his own humble Mississippi beginnings. Yunick remembered that in his early Pennsylvanian childhood, ...

Editor's note: This week marks the 15th anniversary of the death of the legendary mechanic and crew chief Smokey Yunick, one of the most brilliant and controversial minds in NASCAR history. I ...