Picture of the Day July 14, 2009
Unsettled clouds Sunday afternoon. A big black cloud surrounded by blue sky. Strange. Seeing that a lot lately.DAVEY ALLISONPosted for Tuesday July 14th..........................Made my daily trip to jayski.com, and it was mentioned that 16 years ago Monday we lost Davey Allison. He was injured a couple days previously in a helicopter accident.
When I was a young kid, my favorite race car driver was Bobby Allison. Won a lot of races but Richard Petty won the championships. Allison used to come up and race at Catamount Stadium once in a great while.
When his boy Davey came along, I just sort of gravitated to him.
Davey's death hit me hard. I always looked to see how he did after every race and celebrated all his wins.
They did a tribute to him at Talledega, and then Bobby's brother/Davey's uncle, Donnie Allison drove Davey's #28 out onto the track.
I sat on the couch and bawled my eyes out.
Although I did follow drivers since then, I never really had a favorite driver where I was celebrating whenever they won. But looking back, I kinda did, but finally decided he is now my favorite driver, in the same way Davey was.
Tony Stewart.
He's a real racer, will race any kind of race car, anywhere.
I collect diecasts, and I have his USAC midget car, his Indy car, his #44 Shell Busch car, and his #20 Home Depot car all on a shelf. I need to go to Toys 'R' Us and get the new car to add to my collection. He's got a couple of wins, he's staying consistant, and he's leading the points.
It just makes me wonder what Davey could have accomplished had he not had the accident.
