NASCAR driver [expletive] Trickle is dead at the age of 71 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department in North Carolina confirmed the news on Thursday after Trickle called the Lincoln County Communications Center and said that "there would be a dead body and it would be his," WSOC-TV reported.

Trickle reportedly took his life at 12:02 p.m. at the Forest Lawn Cemetery and his body was found by workers near his pickup truck after calls back to him went unanswered.

The Wisconsin native race