Bobby Allison honored at Dover

Sunday, June 01 2008

Former Cup champion Bobby Allison was honored this weekend at Dover International Speedway for overall career success at the track.He was the first driver to receive a special recognition plaque on the new Monster Monument at Victory Plaza.Richard Petty will be honored at the September race. Both drivers won seven times at Dover.Allison said he wished he could have drove on the track both after the surface was changed to concrete and the length was shaved from 500 miles to 400."There were a few times at this race track where I was going along somewhere just past halfway, been racing seemed like half a day and my tongue would be hanging out like a red necktie," he said."I'd look up at the scoreboard and there were still 200 laps to go."
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