One of Frontstretch’s most popular and influential NASCAR writers has died.
Matt McLaughlin passed away last week (June 30) at age 66 after a long illness. A columnist at Frontstretch since 2007, McLaughlin had stepped away these past few years to deal with ongoing health issues. His last column was filed October 2021; since then, there were hopes he’d return but his body was never able to fully recover.
A Villanova University graduate, McLaughlin’s career drifted into NASCAR journalism in a most unexpected way. He was one of the first whose career blossomed exclusively on the internet, writing for websites like RaceComm, SpeedFX and later RacingOne, where he first got noticed in the late 1990s.
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