Higgins' Scuffs: A tribute to Davey Allison
7/13/13, 07:45 AM
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Higgins' Scuffs: A tribute to Davey Allison
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/...-to-davey.html
Hard to believe it has been 20 years . . . for both Allison and Kulwicki.
Hard to believe it has been 20 years . . . for both Allison and Kulwicki.
The haunting, somber memory is back in mind again.
It returns each July when the NASCAR Cup Series teams gather at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, as they have this weekend for the Camping World 301.
I recall seeing Davey Allison, an immensely popular star driver, standing at a helipad behind the track’s pit road and chatting amicably with fans that Sunday 20 years ago. He was waiting to be ferried by helicopter to a nearby airport on July 13, 1993, a field from which he would fly his plane back home to Alabama.
Davey, who had finished third in the just-completed Slick 50 300, and many other competitors were taking the chopper in order to avoid exceedingly heavy highway traffic that marked the speedway’s inaugural Cup event.
The New Hampshire race appeared to be Allison’s, but a late yellow flag and subsequent pit stops enabled Rusty Wallace and Mark Martin to finish in front of him.
It returns each July when the NASCAR Cup Series teams gather at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, as they have this weekend for the Camping World 301.
I recall seeing Davey Allison, an immensely popular star driver, standing at a helipad behind the track’s pit road and chatting amicably with fans that Sunday 20 years ago. He was waiting to be ferried by helicopter to a nearby airport on July 13, 1993, a field from which he would fly his plane back home to Alabama.
Davey, who had finished third in the just-completed Slick 50 300, and many other competitors were taking the chopper in order to avoid exceedingly heavy highway traffic that marked the speedway’s inaugural Cup event.
The New Hampshire race appeared to be Allison’s, but a late yellow flag and subsequent pit stops enabled Rusty Wallace and Mark Martin to finish in front of him.
7/13/13, 11:14 AM
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Such a **** shame. I always have to wonder what NASCAR would look like now if Davey and Kulwicki (among others) had lived to race in the 90s/00s.
7/14/13, 10:33 PM
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