Ex-NASCAR Cup Series driver Ernie Irvan. [Credits: Getty Images] Ernie Irvan is an ex-professional stock car racing driver. He competed in the NASCAR Cup Series as a full-time driver and is best known ...

Ernie Irvan is very passionate about brain trauma. This comes as no big surprise, since he's a survivor himself. Twice. Ernie began his racing career driving karts in 1968 at the tender age of nine.

Injuries may have forced him to retire prematurely from NASCAR in 1999, but horsepower continues to be a major part of Ernie Irvan‘s life. Two vastly different types of horsepower, that is. There‘s ...

Virgil Earnest Irvan is a former professional stock car racing driver. He is a retired driver from the NASCAR Cup Series. Although Irvan participated in all three NASCAR series, he mainly drove in the ...

As NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race victories go, they don't come any more emotional than Ernie Irvan's triumph at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in June 1996. The fact that Irvan, one of the most feared ...

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - FEBRUARY 17: Ernie Irvan celebrates by holding his trophy and posing next to three "76" girls after winning the Daytona 500 at the Daytona Speedway on February 17, 1991 at Daytona ...

SONOMA, Calif. — Dressed casually in a polo shirt and shorts Ernie Irvan proudly accepted his plaque of induction into the Sonoma Raceway Wall of Fame Friday afternoon between Sprint Cup Series ...

For the first time since he was critically injured in a wreck in August at the Michigan International Speedway, Winston Cup driver Ernie Irvan was back in a race car yesterday with impressive results.

DAYTONA BEACH — More than 30 years later, Ernie Irvan can still remember one of his earliest encounters with Dale Earnhardt. It was sometime during the 1987 season, when Irvan was getting ready to ...

Winston Cup driver Ernie Irvan was released from a hospital Friday, five weeks after he almost died following a wreck at Michigan International Speedway. Irvan sustained life-threatening brain and ...