ANY MEMORABLE ONES? “I remember seeing I think it was Rusty (Wallace) flipping down the backstretch one year. Might have been ’92 when he did that, I can’t remember. Don’t quote me on the date. That was pretty memorable. For me personally the most...

That day defined the curse for Earnhardt. The “Alabama Gang” was running one and two in the final laps. Bobby Allison was trying to capture his third Daytona 500 leading his son Davey Allison. This was the first Daytona 500 in the restrictor plate age.

In the NFL, you’ve had Bob Griese and his son Brian as Super Bowl winners. Additionally, you have Emery Moorehead and his son Aaron on a very exclusive list as father/son Super Bowl winners. It’s the same way here in NASCAR with the Daytona 500. Lee...

Allison (left) will join his father, Bobby. Charlotte Observer file First in a four-part series on past Daytona 500s as the 2012 race looms on Feb. 26. It will forever rank high among the most dramatic press box scenes in Daytona 500 history. Sitting in...

So the men who would become the sport's biggest stars of the 1990s and early 2000s began their careers in junk, a practice that delayed their breakthroughs until almost middle age. The few true phenoms of the era, drivers like Davey Allison and Jeff...

(I was there. It has my vote.) This was the last stop on the Richard Petty retirement tour and as a bonus the championship race was red hot. Davey Allison, Bill Elliott or Alan Kulwicki all had a shot at the trophy. Elliott won the race but Kulwicki...