Rene Charland

Rene Charland (November 13, 1928 – September 30, 2013), nicknamed "the Champ", was an American stock car racing driver. He was a four-time champion of the NASCAR National Sportsman Division, now known as the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series.

Racing Career Early Career Charland was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts on November 13, 1928 and made his home in Agawam. His racing career began in 1949 at Riverside Park Speedway in Massachusetts.

Championship Years In 1962, Charland won his first championship in the NASCAR National Sportsman Division, now the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, which came with $666.00 in prize money. and finished third in the series' 1966 standings despite missing half of the season due to an injury suffered at Albany-Saratoga Speedway.

Charland was estimated as having won over 700 races during his career.

Charland was an inductee into the New England Antique Racers Hall of Fame, the New York State Stock Car Association Hall of Fame and the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame. In his later years Charland suffered from dementia, and died on September 30, 2013, in a nursing home in Amsterdam, New York.

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