David Into
{{Short description|American racing driver}}
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| titles = 10× Oglethorpe Speedway Park Champion
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David Into (died April 20, 2015{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}) is an American racing driver who won the NASCAR Weekly Series national championship in 1984.Schaefer, Paul. Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA, 2006. {{ISBN|0-9789261-0-2}}. pp. 17-22.
Born in Ridgeland, South Carolina, Into has lived most of his life in Hardeeville, with the exception of a few years in Savannah, GA. He graduated from Ridgeland-Hardeeville High School in 1957, and attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia for a few years before joining the U.S. Army. He served from 1962–64, and upon returning home he pursued the field of architecture, becoming a draftsman.
Racing career
Driving a Dirt Late Model{{cite web|url=http://www.ospracing.net/site/history.htm|title=OSP: A Track Rich in History|accessdate=July 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619222426/http://www.ospracing.net/site/history.htm |archivedate=June 19, 2012 }} for owner Fred Hughes, Into won 23 of the 67 races that he entered. Most were at Summerville Speedway in South Carolina and Oglethorpe Speedway Park in Georgia, with some at several other tracks in three states. Into won the track championship at Oglethorpe that year, starting a string of ten championships in eleven years there.
He worked for the Savannah architectural firm of Gunn, Meyerhoff and Shay.{{cite web|url=http://savannahnow.com/stories/070905/3151316.shtml|title=Savannah Now: The King of Oglethorpe Speedway Park|publisher=|accessdate=25 June 2018}}
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