Davey Allison (Johnsonverse)

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 ==
=== Early career ===
=== Initial years with Robert Yates Racing, 1989–1990 ===
=== 1991 and the hiring of Larry McReynolds ===
=== 1992 ===
=== 1993 ===
=== 1994 ===
=== 1995 ===
=== 1996 ===
=== 1997 ===
=== 1998 ===
=== Championship season, 1999 ===
=== 2000 ===
=== 2001 ===
=== 2002 ===
=== 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
=== 2004 ===
=== 2005 ===
=== 2006 ===
=== 2007 ===
=== 2008 ===
=== 2009 ===
=== 2010 ===
=== Final season, 2011 ===
==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.
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