Jocko Maggiacomo

Chauncey T. Maggiacomo Jr. (born November 30, 1947) known as "Jocko" or, in high school, "Chant," is an American race car driver from Poughkeepsie, New York.

His father Chauncey T. Maggiacomo (also nicknamed Jocko) was a famous modified stock car racer in the northeast. Jocko Sr. won 31 feature races and multiple championships at Riverside Park Speedway in Agawam, Mass., and won the track's biggest event, the Riverside 500. He is eighth on the track's all-time win list. He is a member of the New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame.

Jocko Jr., followed a different path, racing sportscars with the SCCA. He rose to the professional ranks, winning the 1976 SCCA Trans Am Series championship driving an ex-Roger Penske/Mark Donohue AMC Javelin.

Moving to NASCAR, Maggiacomo started 23 Winston Cup races in ten seasons, primarily in the Northeastern United States.^[1]

Unable to avoid a spinning Bobby Allison in the 1988 Miller High Life 500 at Pocono, the T-bone crash with Maggiacomo ended Allison's driving career. According to Maggiacomo, the guilt and shame he felt despite being cleared of wrongdoing, along with the loss of a major sponsorship opportunity, led him to retire. Since 2002, Maggiacomo and his wife Debbie have owned a sign shop and graphics business in upstate New York. ^{[citation needed]}