All-Star Memories: Allison Wrecks to Win - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

The Sprint All-Star Race XXIV is scheduled for Saturday night at Lowe's Motor Speedway. As the teams prepare for the winner-take-all non-points event, stay with the FanHouse all week for plenty of All-Star coverage.

Buddy Baker in the TV booth sure summed up Davey Allison's win in the 1992 edition of The Winston by saying "he won the race, but sure paid the price." Indeed, he did.

Watch below as Allison battles Kyle Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the final lap.



Heading to the white flag, Earnhardt was leading in the first event at the then-Charlotte Motor Speedway to be run under the lights. Earnhardt led until Petty mounted a charge down the backstretch and got to his rear bumper in Turn 3.
With Earnhardt spinning, Petty battled a charging Davey Allison on his inside out of turn four. As they reached the checkered flag, Allison took the win, the two made contact, and Allison slammed the frontstretch wall with the driver's side.

Allison was knocked unconscious in the impact and instead of heading to victory lane, he was transported to the hospital. If you ask LMS president Humpy Wheeler, it was the likely the only time in racing history that a driver never made it to victory lane after a win.

Regardless, the event was the ideal finish (minus Allison's crash) for a non-points race and was exactly what promoters had hoped for. Not bad for the first superspeedway race ever held under the lights that was billed "One Hot Night".