NEW : Mark Martin , Joey Logano , Keith Olbermann and others salute the late NASCAR driver . Richard `` Dick '' Trickle , a veteran racer , burst on the NASCAR scene in 1989 . He was killed at Daytona International Speedway during practice for the 1990 Daytona 500 race when his car slammed into another vehicle. They find Trickle 's body , dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound .
NEW : Mark Martin , Joey Logano , Keith Olbermann and others salute the late NASCAR driver . Richard `` Dick '' Trickle , a veteran racer , burst on the NASCAR scene in 1989 . North Carolina authorities get a call saying `` there would be a dead body and it would be his '' They find Trickle 's body , dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound .