VINTAGE NASCAR OWNERS: Billy Hagan

Billy Hagan is a former Nascar Cup Series and Xfinity Series team owner, who's team Hagan Racing, competed from 1969-1994. His team primarily ran the Cup Series and operated typically as a single car operation. The drivers that raced for Hagan in the Cup Series were Terry Labonte, Sterling Marlin, John Andretti and Skip Manning. Success was also found from the team, Manning won Rookie of the Year honors in 1976 and Labonte won 6 races and the 1984 Nascar Cup Series championship. Now the Nascar is not the only form of racing that Billy Hagan's team competed in. Hagan would serve as a co driver in Grand Prix that he would enter Chevrolet Camaro stock cars in Imsa GT throughout the early 1980's. Not only running but showing up to these events rather competitive. Some of his co drivers were Gene Felton, Terry Labonte and Bill Cooper. By the late 1980s, Hagan was finding his team was no longer able to win races. Around this period of time Nascar was expanding, smaller single car teams were falling by the wayside. Hagan Racing would make their final start near the end of the 1994 Cup Series season. Then in 1996, Triad Motorsports purchased Hagan's old shop, this is also when he would become part owner of the team until it's demise in 1999. PHOTOS COURTESY OF: race_images Lee Johnson Collection Getty Images Motorsport.com Brian Cleary Lee Johnson Photo YouTube.com SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/splashgo8256 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SplashNGo #nascar #nascarthrowback #nascarhistory #nascarcrashes #nascarcupseries #nascarracing #nascarrace #nascardiecast #nascar87s #nascardfs #nascarhighlights #racing #cupseries #nascarchampionship #motorsports