Career
As a Grand National driver, Staley had three wins in addition to twenty-three finishes in the "top 5" and forty-one finishes in the "top 10." Out of 10218 laps, he officially led 299 laps and accumulated a grand total of $23,284 ($190,97177 when adjusted for inflation) in his seven-year career. lieutenant was a 200-lap race and he had lapped the field lieutenant was at the New York State Fairgrounds and once again he had lapped the field driving the Petty prepared 1957 Chevy.
He had the field lapped twice this time.
North Wilkesboro Speedway named the race after him during the early 1970s. Staley"s greatest successes came at road courses where his average finishes would be in ninth place.
His racing performance would be the worst on intermediate tracks where he would finish in a paltry 39th place. Eight days after scoring a second-place finish in the 150-lap Grand National race at Champion Speedway in Fayetteville, North Carolina Staley was killed in a National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Convertible Division 100-mile race held at the Atlantic Rural Fairgrounds in Richmond, Virginia in March 1958.
