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Sacks & Sons

former NASCAR team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ16984277 ↗
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Sacks & Sons was a short lived NASCAR Winston Cup race team from 1983–85. The team ran 38 races, all but one run by Greg Sacks, son of owner Arnie Sacks. Cecil Gordon also ran one race for the team. The team had 0 wins, 0 top 5s, three top 10s, 12 top 20s, 0 poles, and 18 DNF'S. The average start was 24.71 and the average finish was 24.2. They led 2 laps out of a possible 7,999. They ran 64.3% of the total laps they could possibly run.

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“Sacks & Sons” enters the record as former NASCAR team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sacks, Sons and former can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sacks & Sons” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.