Dick Trickle's brother: Pain was issue

CONCORD, N.C. — The day after legendary racer Dick Trickle shot himself to death in a North Carolina cemetery, friends in the NASCAR community wondered why the former driver took his own life while remembering him as a hard-nosed racer. Trickle, 71(CNN) -- Richard "Dick" Trickle -- who parlayed a legendary reputation as a short-track driver into a full-time career on stock car racing's biggest stages in the 1990s -- died Thursday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, a North CarolinaCONCORD, N.C. — There is that lasting image of Dick Trickle in the Winston 500 lighting up a cigarette while driving his stock car with his knees during a caution lap. He places the cigarette through a hole he carved in his helmet for a quick toke andDick Trickle may have shot himself because of constant chest pain, Trickle's brother told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Dick

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