Donnie Allison Author

Donnie Allison is one-half of the most successful duo of racing brothers in NASCAR history and a founding member of the famed “Alabama Gang.” He won 10 Grand National/Winston Cup races in his career and 17 poles. Before that he won hundreds of races at short tracks all around the Southeast and helped put Hueytown, Alabama, on the map. He’s still active in racing, helping his sons Kenny, Ronald, and Donald in their business, the Allison Legacy Racing Series. And even into his 80s, he’s still a regular fixture at tracks both small and large across the country, advising the future generation of racers and serving as a statesman for the sport he loves. Donnie lives with wife, Pat, in Salisbury, North Carolina.

Jimmy Creed is a freelance writer and the former award-winning sports editor of the Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama. His 2003 retrospective on the 10th anniversary of Davey Allison’s death in a helicopter crash at the Talladega Superspeedway was chosen the country’s Best Sports Feature in the under-40,000 circulation category by the national Associated Press Sports Editors organization. He lives in Jacksonville, Alabama.