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Davey Allison
Person
Born: February 25, 1961
Died: July 13, 1993
Hometown: Hueytown, Alabama, USA
1987
Winston Cup Rookie of the Year
1992
Daytona 500 Winner
1992
NASCAR Driver of the Year
Former
Winston Cup driver between 1985 and 1993. Son of former
NASCAR driver
Bobby Allison.
In his short career he accumulated 14 poles and 19 wins in 191 starts. Davey Allison died in a helicopter crash in the infield at Talladega Superspeedway.
Biography
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Davey Allison page on 15 June 2016, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
David Carl "Davey" Allison (February 25, 1961 – July 13, 1993) was a NASCAR driver. He was best known for driving the No. 28 Texaco-Havoline Ford for Robert Yates Racing in the Winston Cup Series. Born in Hollywood, Florida, he was the eldest of four children born to Bobby Allison and wife Judy. The family moved to Hueytown, Alabama, and along with Bobby's brother Donnie Allison, family friend Red Farmer, and Neil Bonnett, became known in racing circles as the Alabama Gang.
Early career
Growing up, Allison participated in athletics, preferring football, but was destined, like many children of racers, to become a racer himself. He began working for his father's Winston Cup team after graduating high school, and would work after-hours on his own race car, a Chevy Nova built by Davey and a group of his friends affectionately known as the "Peach Fuzz Gang". He began his career in 1979 at Birmingham International Raceway and notched his first win in just his sixth start. He became a regular winner at BIR and by 1983, was racing in the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) series. Allison won both ARCA events at his "home track", Talladega Superspeedway in 1983, and was named ARCA Rookie of the Year in 1984, placing second in the series title. That same year, he married his first wife, Deborah.
Allison continued racing in the ARCA series in 1985 and eventually notched eight wins in the series, four at Talladega Superspeedway. He also began competing in some of NASCAR's lower divisions and in July 1985, car owner Hoss Ellington gave him his first chance to drive a Winston Cup car in the Talladega 500. Allison qualified Ellington's Chevrolet 22nd and finished 10th in his first Winston Cup start. This impressive showing earned Davey more Winston Cup opportunities in 1986 where he would sub for injured friend and fellow Alabama Gang member Neil Bonnett in Junior Johnson's No. 12 Budweiser Chevy.
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1986 Nationwise 150
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1986 Nationwise 150
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1987
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1987
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1987 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1987 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1987 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1987 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1988 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1988 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1988 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1989 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1989 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1989 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1989 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1989 Champion Spark Plug 400
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1989 Champion Spark Plug 400
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test
June 23, 1992
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test
June 23, 1992
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway NASCAR Tire Test
June 23, 1992
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Davey Allison car at the 2007 HSCRS San Jose Grand Prix
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