why would he make it to the HOF...he won a few faces in a few years then he was gone......maybe if he wouldnt of aquireed aids and been around for awhile then sure

Considering some of the other people that NASCAR has put in the Hall of Fame in the last few years, it really is a smack in the face that Tim isn't in there. When the Hall of Fame started they were putting people in there that really deserved it and now they've got to the point to where they have put most, not all, but most of the greats in there as far as drivers, owners and crew chiefs go, now they are just adding anyone and their brother. I mean, when you have Wendell Scott in there with one career victory and guys like Tim Richmond aren't in there yet, C'mon man.

He infected 12 women after he knew he had the aids virus. After his death dateline interviewed some of the women who would go on to die from the disease. Great driver but a selfish and horrible person.

​@paulwatson4189 there is absolutely zero evidence this is true. Back then hiv and aids was considered a "gay" disease. It is highly possible he didn't know he had it at first.

Now that was a man who could strut without walkin’!!!!!

Tony Stewart has got nothing on Tim!!!!!!!

Amen to that likewise

@Woobiecrew He was never willing to confirm that on camera.

If you were alive during this period you weren't celebrated if you told the world you had HIV. We were a much more or less forgiving world. Because if you had HIV by this point it came from one of three places. 2 of which are sexual which is where he received it another IV drugs, but all of it is due to your own behavior. At this time in American culture he would at most likely been look down on he would have had to defend accusations of homosexuality and still been judged because he was still sexually promiscuous. During this period in our history we did not celebrate immorality we did not put immorality on a pedestal especially in the culture of NASCAR. I'm not saying it was right I believe what his right is somewhere in the middle. But Tim Richard may he rest in peace he caught HIV through his own behaviors. And by this point we knew how to stop the spread of HIV and wear it came from.

@@joeyjohnson4826 wow, very well stated. So true.

@@muffdiver240 he also never acknowledged his HIV status to the late Debbie Putman, the late Karen Beasey and to LaGena Lookabill Greene.

@@Mr.Majestic77 I believe all that happened BEFORE he finally found out that he actually had AIDS. If he had known that beforehand, he definitely would have told them about his HIV/AIDS status. And he certainly would never give them HIV purposefully. And, luckily, none of these women appear to have HIV/AIDS.

Are they only a vice if they shorten your life?

More like men. Aids is rarely results of hetero behavior.

He did alot of drugs too. Tim failed the drug test for NASCAR more than once.

Ill bet money they didnt get AIDS or HIV from vaginal intercourse and ill leave it at that. The same for Eazy E.

@@MIGGYME1what a dumb comment lmfao. Go back to school lol

LOL. Somehow, I never noticed that before.

Where did you hear that? I've read for years it was pneumonia that officially did him in, which of course was brought on by the AIDS virus.

He can thank Fauci

And he ultimately infected numerous women with HIV.

Tim would pop you in the mouth for saying that if he was around, and I would laugh ...

@@danielmoose1273 Not trying to sh!t on the guy or his memory, but even back then, I can remember hearing rumors that Tim played for both teams. Even if that were true, I don't see that to be a detriment to his skill or persona on the race track, as what someone does in private is ultimately none of our business. However, this was a different time, and society was far less sympathetic to anyone with that awful disease, and even more harsh to those infected due to their own lifestyle. This is sadly illustrated by the death of Freddie Mercury, who only acknowledged his affliction on the last few days of his life.

​@@dullahan7677Yeah that was the rumors but we just don't know if that's true or not. We do know that he slept with a lot of women and he knew about his illness for a couple of years before his death.

This guy slept with hundreds of women lmfao. Your still living in your mom’s basement.

“Sexual sin”?? And your evidence to confirm this is where?

@@jonaskessler326 I did the same thing ran women read the Bible and you will understand I am no better than he was we shared a similar problem women I just call things as they are in the bible I am no better I still have a sin problem just not the same ones I don't drink and chase women but I have a foul mouth and sometimes don't treat people right but I am a lot better than I used to be I was a walking talking wild man at different times in my earlier life but I have been sober for many years and yet I am not a saint but I do believe in God

@@burnychaplin4601 and you know for certain he didn’t contract HIV from a blood transfusion how?

@@jonaskessler326 don't care just wish he had lived find someone else to jack I don't have time

@@burnychaplin4601 you’re the one who made the claim his “sexual sin” caused him to get AIDS with zilch for proof. I don’t have time either, for baseless assumptions.

Promiscuous, just couldn't say no to the women.

@@sunnybeech74 They try to convince you that aids also happens among heterosexual behavior but it doesn’t. Sharing needles and/or buttslamming is to blame.