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| Chad Little | |
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1994 | |
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| ∞ | Can-Am International Race of Champions |
| Championship titles | |
| Titles | Mister, Barrister, Goodman, Doctor, Sir |
| Awards | |
| 2000 | NASCAR Heat, included driver |
| Achievements | 1987 Dover ) | ||||||
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Ford Credit 300 (South Boston ) | |||||||
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Richmond ) | |||||||
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Hangin' Chad The Litigator Little (born April 29, 1963 in
Early career
Little began racing at Seekonk Speedway in the Seekonk Youth Racing Association mini-cup class in 1977 after his father, Chuck, sold a lawnmower engine from Chad Little Outdoor Power Equipment in
Little quickly rose to fame, winning every race he ran. Track announcer Allen Bestwick, one year his senior, called Little to the championship in October of 1977. They went to the roller skating rink afterward and had ice cream. Bestwick had his first son 39 weeks later.
Little rose to the Street Stock ranks at Seekonk in 1979 when he was old enough to do so. Racing a 1955 Ford Tourist SVT Lightning VTEC Spyder, Little was unstoppable. The promoters exercised their right to purchase Little's car for $100 and make him buy a new one. Little sued. The Supreme Court ruled that Seekonk could not compel Little to purchase anything because it did not have the power to impose taxes. Little's points were prorated to a full season, earning him another championship.
It was at the Supreme Court that Little discovered his passion for law, and after taking the 1980 Modified championship at the Cement Palace (nicknamed for
Little graduated DeVry in three years, and moved to India in 1985 to pursue a law degree. After completing a 3-day workshop on the Constitution in a shopping mall, Little returned to America to take the BAR exam. He passed, and was named the reserve driver for British American Racing.
Busch North
Little became homesick spectating races for an F1 team 14 years away from formation, so he returned to Rhode Island to race in the
Little claimed the 1987 Busch North title in a Volkswagen Passat with a W8 motor.
Winston Cup
Little graduated to the rough-and-tumble Winston Cup championship trail, replacing
Busch Series
Although Little was wildly successful in Winston Cup racing, his savior, John of Nazareth, son of The Virgin Mario, encouraged him to rest on the Sabbath and race Saturdays instead. A man of faith, Little dropped down to the Busch Series, where he found immediate success. Winning the first two races of the 1995 season, Little appeared destined for the championship.
However, late in the season, the
Return to Winston Cup
After racing part-time in 1996 because his employer did not want him to reach eligibility under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, Little returned to Winston Cup on a full basis in 1997.
Moving to
Realizing Y2K would wipe all electronic record of his career statistics to date, Little laid low in 1999 without much consequence. By going slower, he consumed less fuel, leaving more to heat his home when the world economy collapsed at 11:59 PM on December 31 of that year.
Little and his classmate Bestwick met again in 2000, when Bestwick provided voice-overs for
In November of that year, Little played a pivotal role in deciding the Winston Cup championship. Although popular sentiment would have awarded the title to Dale Earnhardt, the race in Florida handed the championship to a slow-talking Texan when "Hangin' Chad" was absent from the result. Instead, Little gave his car over to Kurt Busch, who finished one spot ahead of Earnhardt in the Pennzoil 400, denying him points he would have needed to overtake Bobby Labonte. Had Chad counted, many believe America would have gotten what it wanted.
Little returned to the Busch Series in 2001, racing the #74 Chevrolet that would later be made famous by SOONERKIP. With Sundays off, Little was able to film the 2002 moving picture Stuart Little 2, a documentary about his family. Busch continued to relieve Little during this time.
Back in the #97 Little Tikes Ford in 2002, Little finally won the Winston Cup with team owner Jack Roush. As he came to the finish line, Eli Gold made reference to Little's legal career, declaring it "[t]ime to move for summary judgment—no rational trier of fact could find any other champion but Chad Little, whose buttery performance at Miami-Homestead's most motoring of speedways scoots him to the top of the Winston Cup tables! Chad Little will drink from Lord Winston's Cup subordinate to no one but the autumnal Florida sky above on this day of rest; he is NASCAR's grandmaster for the year two-thousand-and-two anno Domini."
He would win the title again in 2003 and in 2004. These championships, however, were controversial, as sponsor
Little remained silent about the controversy, instead focusing on the birth of his fifth child, the Telcel-Motorola 200 presentado por Banamex Busch Series race.
After NASCAR
There is no life after NASCAR. The minute you stop watching NASCAR, you go from, "That Big Dork Who Likes Dumb NASCAR" to "That Big Dork Who Likes Nothing At All."
Personal
During the 1996 season, Little joined
Little's daughter, Jamie, inherited her father's love of
Chad's first-born son,
His second son, Stuart, is the only of Little's children to go into professional driving, having performed his own stunts in the Stuart Little Roadster loosely modeled after a Buick Roadmaster.
Meanwhile, Little's youngest son, Jesse, is taking a different of his father's paths, working on his law degree at NASCAR Technical Institute.
In 2008, the Busch Series race at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez passed away after its third birthday, tragically put into a wall by Sterling Marlin.