RacingOne//Getty Images Butch Lindley won back-to-back NASCAR Late Model Sportsman class championships in 1977 and 1978. Mardy, his mother Joan and several other family members flew on a private ...

“It might have been different if Butch had kept running ... three laps down in fifth. Lindley, a two-time Late Model Sportsman champion, could only bemoan what might have been.

Butch Lindley, the former Langley Raceway star who died Wednesday in Greenville, S.C., will be remembered in pre-race ceremonies next weekend. The two-time NASCAR Late Model Sportsman champion ran ...