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Only Yesterday: That One Time the All-Star Race Was Held at Atlanta

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#12: Ryan Blaney, Team Penske, Wabash Ford Mustang, #9: Chase Elliott, Hendrick Motorsports, NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet Camaro, #18: Kyle Busch, Joe Gibbs Racing, M&M's Crunchy Cookie Toyota Camry, #45: Kurt Busch, 23XI Racing, Monster Energy Toyota Camry

The All-Star Race was originally supposed to rotate venues like it does now, but one trip to Atlanta changed that.

The Frontstretch 5: Best NASCAR Cup Seasons By Drivers Who Didn’t Win Championship

2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Texas

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1. 1985 Bill Elliott won plenty of races and money and even earned a couple really cool nicknames in 1985. But the big prize eluded the red-headed Georgia leadfoot that year. Elliott came into 1985 having won a total of four NASCAR Cup Series races during the previous two seasons, but proved to be almost …

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Odds & Ends Around the Track: Farewell to DW Edition & Sonoma

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This time every year NASCAR fans are ready for a change of networks. We say farewell to FOX for the season and farewell to Darrell Waltrip forever on television coverage of NASCAR. Just as he did during his racing career, DW moves the needle. Love him or hate him, you will never be bored by …

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Beside The Rising Tide: Remembering Davey Allison – Part 2

Allison Petty

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Editor’s Note: For Part One of Matt’s retrospective on Davey Allison, click “here.”:https://frontstretch.com/mmclaughlin/34578/

Robert Yates Racing and the team’s talented young driver Davey Allison made their official debut at the 1989 Daytona 500. Things got off to an inauspicious start. Davey was running well when Geoff Bodine got into his rear bumper and sent the No. 28 car spinning. The car rolled, but came down on all four wheels, and Allison limped off to the pits, where the crew was able to repair the car well enough to get him back out there for points. Allison finished 25th in that year’s race.

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