Darrell Waltrip Winston Cup history. Waltrip closed out the 1970s driving the #88 DiGard Chevrolet, sponsored by Gatorade, ranked NASCAR's #2 driver, having won 22 NASCAR Winston Cup races in just 149 race starts. His aggressive driving style and outspoken demeanor earned him the nickname "Jaws", a reference to the 1975 film about a killer shark. The nickname was given to Waltrip by rival Cale Yarborough in an interview after Waltrip crashed Yarborough out of a race. Waltrip himself preferred the nicknames ""D.W."" or ""D-Dubya"" but he acknowledged Yarborough by displaying an inflatable toy shark in his pit at the next race.
Windy City (nickname) words, the Windy City is not a nickname Chicago gave itself, but rather something that the city has embraced over time. Chicago's wind is often called "The Hawk". This term has long been popular in African American Vernacular English. "The Baltimore Sun's" series of columns in 1934 attempted to examine the origin of the phrase, "Hawkins is coming", for a cold, winter wind. The first recorded Chicago citation is in the "Chicago Defender", October 20, 1936: "And these cold mornings are on us—in other words 'Hawkins' has got us." In the 1967 song, "Dead End Street", Chicago native Lou Rawls