Bobby Allison

ABOUT BOBBY ALLISON

NASCAR legend who won the Daytona 500 three times. He won in 1978, 1982, and 1988. He was the 1983 Winston Cup Series Champion and the 1980 IROC Champion.

He raced for the first time during his senior year of high school.

There was a bumpergate controversy about his car's bumper in the 1982 Daytona 500 race. He had a televised fistfight at the 1979 Daytona 500.

He married, divorced, and later remarried Judy Allison.

He and Richard Petty both won all four of the league's major events.