The last resting place of Glenn “Fireball” Roberts is so close to Daytona Beach International Airport that the planes look like you could almost reach up and touch them as they head for a landing.

Edward Glenn “Fireball” Roberts Jr. had perhaps the all-time best auto racing nickname. Oddly, it was a product of another sport. Roberts picked up the Fireball moniker as a teenager when a ...

Glenn “Fireball” Roberts. It is a name known to thousands of the race fans who crowd into Daytona International Speedway, only a mile or so beyond the hill from Roberts’ grave. But many know ...

On the first weekend of the NASCAR racing season, there are no flowers at Fireball Roberts’ final resting place. There should be. At the end of a short stone walkway at Daytona Memorial Park is ...

Glenn “Fireball” Roberts’ first NASCAR victory came on dirt. But with the opening of Daytona International Speedway in 1959, it was Roberts who quickly became a master of asphalt and helped ...

Why? 'Because my daddy won,' said Pam Roberts, grinning from ear to ear. "-Pam Roberts, commenting on Fireball Roberts winning the '62 Daytona 500, quoted in the Daytona Beach News Journal ...

Jarrett scrambled out of his own burning car and pulled out the man known long before the horrific, blazing crash as "Fireball." Forty days later, on July 2, Roberts -- NASCAR's first true superstar - ...