“NASCAR” Geoff Bodine Hand Signed MAXX Trading Card Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction “NASCAR” Geoff Bodine Hand Signed MAXX Trading Card.
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Geoffrey Edmond Bodine
(born April 18, 1949) is a retired American
motorsport
driver and
bobsled
builder. He is the oldest of the three Bodine brothers (with
Brett Bodine
and
Todd Bodine
). Bodine currently lives in
West Melbourne, Florida
. Bodine's racing career seemed to be on track right from the start as his father and grandfather, Eli Bodine Jr. and Sr. built
Chemung Speedrome
just a year after he was born. He began learning his racing skills at this track in the micro-midget division when he was only five years old. He had such an itch to race that he disguised himself as a lady and entered a Powderpuff Division Race when he was 15.
Bodine was quite an accomplished driver before he hit the big-time in NASCAR's premier division, the
Winston Cup
series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series) with his first start in 1979. By this time, Bodine was well known as a Modified driver in the Northeast, racing against popular drivers like
Richie Evans
,
Jerry Cook
,
Jimmy Spencer
,
Ron Bouchard
, and others. Bodine earned Modified championships at
Stafford Speedway
,
Shangri-La Speedway
, Spencer/Williamson Speedway, and
Utica-Rome Speedway
. He has won many of the big races in Modifieds including the Lancaster 200 (1978, 1981), Race of Champions (1972 - Trenton, 1978 - Pocono), the Stafford 200 (1978), the Trenton Dogleg 200 (1979), the Thompson 300, the Spring Sizzler (1980 - Stafford Speedway),
Oswego
Classic (1981), Cardinal Classic (1975 - Martinsville Speedway), Oxford 250 (1980, 1981), and other modified events. In 1978, Bodine won more races than any other Modified driver in recorded history. Driving cars owned by Dick Armstrong with Billy Taylor and Ralph Hop Harrington as crew chief, Bodine started 84 feature events and won 55 of them. Among the most prestigious of these victories were the Race of Champions at
Pocono
, the Spring Sizzler at Stafford, the Budweiser 200 at Oswego, both major events at
Martinsville
, the Thompson 300, and a sweep of the six-race Yankee All-Star League series.
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For these fifty-five victories, Bodine is credited in the
Guinness Book of World Records
with "Most wins in one season". Bodine's racing background also included wins in the Late Model division,
Nationwide Series
division, and others. He has six Busch Grand National wins to his credit.