Dale Singleton (August 27, 1955 in

Dalton, Georgia Dalton is a city and the county seat of Whitfield County, Georgia, United States. It is also the principal city of the Dalton Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Murray and Whitfield counties. As of the 2010 census, the ci ...

– September 1, 1985 in South Carolina) was an American professional

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. Singleton competed at the 1979 Suzuka 8 Hours. Singleton won the

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in 1979 and 1981 – both for privateer teams. Also in 1981 he won the AMA Road Racing Championship. He was killed in a plane crash in 1985. Singleton was inducted into the AMA

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in 2002.

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