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    “Iron Man” NASCAR Driver Jack Ingram has crossed the ‘Finish Line’:Hall of Famer gone at age 84

    from www.yardbarker.com/YardBarker.com CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jack Ingram, a hard-hosed, hot-tempered racer who won five NASCAR championships and more than 300 races, has died, the NASCAR Hall of Fame said Friday. He was 84. No details were released by the Hall of Fame. A 2014 inductee, Ingram lived in the Asheville area and had been hospitalized in May. “Jack was a fixture at short tracks across the Southeast most days of the week, racing anywhere and everywhere. He dominated the Late Model Sportsman division like few others,” NASCAR chairman Jim France said in a statement. “Jack was an ‘old school racer’…