| Bill Blair | |
| Birth Date: | July 14, 1911 |
| Death Place: | High Point, North Carolina, United States |
| Best Cup Pos: | 4th (1949) |
| Cup Wins: | 3 |
| Cup Top Tens: | 54 |
| Cup Poles: | 1 |
| First Cup Race: | 1949 Race No. 1 (Charlotte) |
| First Cup Win: | 1950 Vernon Fairgrounds (Vernon, NY) |
| Last Cup Race: | 1958 Lakewood Speedway (Atlanta) |
| Years In Cup: | 10 |
| Total Cup Races: | 123 |
William Ivey Blair (July 14, 1911 – November 2, 1995) was an American stock car racing driver in the 1940s and the 1950s, and he was one of the pioneers of NASCAR.
Blair started his racing career as a bootlegger in the 1930s. In 1939, he began racing at the newly-constructed High Point Speedway, and he opened his own track Tri-City Speedway after World War II.[1] [2]
Blair won three NASCAR Strictly Stock/Grand National races:
Blair, Jimmie Lewallen, and Fred Harb are the subject of the independent movie Red Dirt Rising" which is based on the book Red Dirt Tracks: The Forgotten Heroes of Early Stockcar Racing by Gail Cauble Gurley.[4]