Cup teams to honor David Poole with special decal at Richmond
This decal will adorn all four Hendrick Motorsports cars to honor the life of the late David Poole in Saturday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway. // Hendrick Motorsports, Courtesy
RICHMOND, Va. – Several NASCAR Sprint Cup teams are carrying logos honoring the late David Poole this weekend at Richmond International Raceway.
The four Hendrick Motosports cars are carrying a logo that has "DCP" for David Carl Poole and is in Carolina blue in honor of his alma mater, the University of North Carolina, in remembrance of the reporter who covered NASCAR for The Charlotte Observer and also hosted a program on Sirius XM Satellite Radio.
Stewart-Haas Racing’s cars are also carrying a decal honoring the writer. The logo on the Stewart-Haas cars reads, “In Memory of David Poole 1959-2009” and includes images of a fountain pen and a microphone.
Cars for Roush Fenway Racing, Penske Racing and Richard Childress Racing are among others also carrying decals.
Poole died Tuesday at the age of 50.
