Jerry Schild is a former NASCAR driver from Houston, TX. He competed in five Nextel Cup Series events in his career, earning one top-ten. All of those races came in 1974, when Schild debuted at Talladega. He only completed half of the laps in race and finished 40th, but then improved to 16th in the other Talladega event later in the year. But Schild's best race would come at Darlington, taming the tough track with a solid 8th place effort. He competed in two more races after that, falling out at Charlotte but ending his career with a solid 13th at Rockingham.