This is the same Tim Richmond who, after a fling at Indy Car racing that saw him named Rookie-of-the-Year at Indianapolis, made his NASCAR debut right here at Pocono in 1980. The same Tim Richmond ...

Tim Richmond wasn't just a winning driver -- he was the life of the party. Bill Frakes/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images ... after Richmond gravitated from Indy cars to NASCAR in 1980.

No one knows for sure when Tim Richmond contracted HIV ... He learned how to race and how to party with the Indianapolis open-wheel set, then America's big leagues of motorsports.

A fella by the name of Jim Yates suggested they find a ride for Tim Richmond, a young, hot-shot driver who’d nearly won the Indianapolis 500 in May. On July 27, Richmond made his NASCAR debut ...