With fire-breathing robots and death-defying school-bus stunts, he brought spectacle to stock-car racing as the sport boomed in the 1970s and beyond.

A beloved Cars voice actor has passed away. According to NASCAR, H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler, who voiced Tex Dinoco in the Disney and Pixar film franchise, died at 86 years old. “Humpy Wheeler was a visionary whose name became synonymous with promotion and innovation in our sport,

Wheeler will be remembered for his love of stock car racing and his acumen for promoting races — one that yielded the nickname the “P.T. Barnum of Motorsports.”