Gordon headlines Nascar Hall of Fame for 2019

The Class of 2019 was announced Wednesday in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. The latest group of
honorees is made up of Davey Allison, son of Hall of Fame driver Bobby Allison who won nineteen races
including the 1992 Daytona 500 … Jeff Gordon, a four-time Cup Series champion who won thirteen races in
1998 – a single-season record for the modern era … Alan Kulwicki, the ultimate underdog who beat his highdollar,
high-profile rivals to win the 1992 Cup Series championship … Roger Penske, long-time team owner who
has presided over more than one hundred wins in NASCAR’s top series and celebrated fifty years in motor sports
in 2016 … and fellow team owner Jack Roush, who’s won a record 325 races across NASCAR’s three national
series and helped steer Matt Kenseth and Kurt Busch to back-to-back Cup Series championships in 2003 and
2004 … Allison’s career began with Rookie of the Year honors in 1987, when he replaced the legendary Cale
Yarborough in the Ford stable. Tragically, he was killed just six years later in a helicopter crash … Gordon
arrived on the scene in 1992 and took the business by storm, helping transform NASCAR from a regional sport
into the mainstream … Kulwicki was a noted short-track racer in Wisconsin before relocating to North Carolina
to chase his NASCAR dreams. He was named Rookie of the Year in 1986, but – like Allison – his life was cut
short when he died in a plane crash in 1993 … Penske won the 2012 Cup Series championship with Brad
Keselowski, and owns a pair of Daytona 500 victories with Ryan Newman and Joey Logano … Roush has
collected five owner championships across NASCAR’s three national series including those two Cup Series
crowns for Kenseth and Busch … The Class of 2019 will be formally inducted in February – joining Bobby
Allison, Buck Baker, Red Byron, Richard Childress, Jerry Cook, Dale Earnhardt, Bill Elliott, Richie Evans,
Ray Evernham, Tim Flock, Bill France Junior, Bill France Senior, Rick Hendrick, Ron Hornaday, Jack
Ingram, Dale Inman, Bobby Isaac, Dale and Ned Jarrett, Junior Johnson, Terry Labonte, Fred Lorenzen,
Mark Martin, Bud Moore, Cotton Owens, Raymond Parks, Benny Parsons, David Pearson, Lee Petty,
Maurice Petty, Richard Petty, Fireball Roberts, Wendell Scott, O. Bruton Smith, Ken Squier, Herb Thomas,
Curtis Turner, Rusty Wallace, Darrell Waltrip, Joe Weatherly, Rex White, Glenn and Leonard Wood, Cale
Yarborough and Robert Yates … already enshrined as members of the Hall’s first nine classes.
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