Davey Allison (Johnsonverse)

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Davey Allison
Allison at Pocono Raceway
Born	David Carl Allison (1961-02-25) February 25, 1961 Hollywood, Florida, U.S.
Achievements	2001 NASCAR RCA Cup Series champion 1992, 2000 Daytona 500 winner 1991 Coca-Cola 600 winner 1987, 1989, 1992 Winston 500 winner 1991, 1992 The Winston winner 1984 ARCA Talladega Super Car Series Hoosier Superspeedway Challenge Winner 1993 IROC Champion
Awards	1987 Winston Cup Series Rookie of the Year 1983 ARCA Talladega Super Car Series Rookie of the Year Named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers (1998) NASCAR Hall of Fame (2019)
NASCAR Coca-Cola Cup Series career
191 races run over 9 years
Best finish	1st (2001)
First race	1985 Talladega 500 (Talladega)
Last race	2011 Los Angeles Times 500 (Ontario)
First win	1987 Winston 500 (Talladega)
Last win	2008 Apple iPhone 500 (San Jose)
Wins Top tens Poles TBA 92 14
NASCAR Busch Series career
86 races run over 10 years
Best finish	29th (1986)
First race	1983 Coca-Cola 200 (Rockingham)
Last race	2008 TBA (TBA)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 31 2
Statistics current as of May 24, 2018.

David Carl Allison (born February 25, 1961) is an American retired NASCAR driver and team owner. He was best known for driving the No. 28 Texaco-Havoline Ford for Robert Yates Racing in the Winston Cup Series (now the NASCAR RCA Cup Series). Born in Hollywood, Florida, he was the oldest of four children born to Bobby and Judy Allison. The family moved to Hueytown, Alabama, and along with Bobby Allison's brother, Donnie, Red Farmer and Neil Bonnett, became known as the Alabama Gang. Over the course of his 27-year career in the Cup Series (1985 to 2011), Allison scored 58 victories, including two Daytona 500s (1992 and 2000), three Winston 500s (1987, 1989, and 1992), and the 2001 championship. Allison is also the owner of a race team, Davey Allison Enterprises.

Early career

Growing up, Allison participated in athletics, preferring football, but settled upon automobile racing. He began working for his father's NASCAR Winston Cup Series team after graduating high school, and built a race car of his own, a Chevy Nova, with friends known as the "Peach Fuzz Gang". He began his career in 1979 at Birmingham International Raceway and won his first race in 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 two 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, winning eight races in the series, four at Talladega Superspeedway. He competed in some of NASCAR's lower divisions. In the Busch series, his crew chief was Red Farmer. In July 1985, car owner Hoss Ellington gave Allison an opportunity to drive a NASCAR Winston Cup Series car in the Talladega 500. Allison qualified 22nd In Ellington's Chevrolet and finished 10th in his first Winston Cup start. The wins earned Allison more NASCAR Cup Series opportunities in 1986, when he made 4 starts in the No. 95 Sadler Racing Chevrolet entry with Tom Pistone serving as crew chief. Davey later substituted for injured racer Neil Bonnett in Junior Johnson's No. 12 Budweiser Chevy, starting and finishing 7th in the Talladega 500.

Cup Series career

Move to Steele-Favre Racing, 2003

In August 2002, Allison announced that he would leave Robert Yates Racing after 14 seasons, citing a desire for a new environment; Allison revealed that he and Yates parted on good terms and that he personally recommended his brother Clifford as his replacement in the No. 28. Later, in October, Steele-Favre Racing announced that they had signed Allison to a three-year deal in the No. 90 Ford (which was acquired from Junie Donlavey) with sponsorship from FujiFilm.

The 2003 season was

Post-retirement

Davey Allison Enterprises

For the 2014 season, Allison started a race team, Davey Allison Enterprises, fielding the No. 82 (a reverse of the No. 28 he had driven for years) Holiday Inn Ford Fusion for his son, Robbie. The team has a technical alliance with Yates Racing.