Jake Allison: A Very Talented NASCAR Driver

“He's dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946.” (Hawthorne - 38) Allie died of

Summary: Ricky Bobby, one of NASCAR’s most popular drivers of his time, is a dominating success on the track. Starting as a pit crew member, Ricky jumps into the driver seat after their driver quits mid-race. Although he started third, Ricky eventually ends up third in the race, kick starting his future NASCAR career. After Dennit Racing introduces another driver (Jean Girard) alongside Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr., Ricky becomes less successful as the season goes on. After flipping his car in Charlotte, Ricky vanishes from NASCAR as he is unable to cope with not being the greatest driver on the

Henry Ford was born on July 30 1863, in Dearborn, Michigan, to William and Mary Ford, he had four siblings. He was bright and curious as a child so in his teens when his father gave him a pocket watch which he dismantled and reassembled by himself. He also

Dale Earnhardt was one of the best drivers in the sport. Earnhardt won a total of 76 races. Earnhardt was known for his aggressive driving style that’s why he got the nickname the “intimidator”. He earned 7 Winston cup championships an tie with Richard petty. On February the 18, 2001 he was involved in a crash he lost his life of basilar skull fracture. When he died that day a piece of NASCAR also died that day. Richard lee petty grew up in level cross North Carolina. Growing up Richard was destined to be a NASCAR driver just like his father. Richard began his professional driving carrier in 1958. Nicknamed “the king” he has won 200 NASCAR races holding numerous victories at the Daytona 500 and the Winston cup.

Earnhardt met his untimely demise during the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. Earnhardt died Sunday February 18, 2001. He was involved in a three car accident on the final lap of the Daytona 500. Earnhardt was in third, he was behind two cars from his own Dale Earnhardt Incorporated team, and Michael Waltrip was in first followed by Earnhardt’s son Dale Earnhardt Jr. Dale Earnhardt was slightly ahead of Sterling Marlin’s Dodge on the bottom of the high-banked fourth turn. Running three-wide behind the leaders heading into turn four on the last lap Earnhardt collided with Ken Schrader after he had made a little contact with Sterling Marlin. He spun out and Earnhardt hit the wall at 75-degree angle at about 150 mph and both cars slid down the

He was born in Kyabram and moved to Melbourne when he was 5 years old, where he was raised in St Albans. As cousins we naturally met as children, and for as long as I can remember he has always had an affinity with cars – and the faster the better. From a young age he was either talking about cars, or reading the monthly edition of a car magazine, and to this day that is what you will still find him doing.

Junior Johnson, a NASCAR hero, is a true example of where the sport came from. He was raised in a moonshine family. Johnson's father taught him many values such as no stealing or lying. Although it seemed contradictory that they were breaking the law everyday with their business, apparently it was all they could do to survive. When a school friend named Millard Ashley was asked about Junior’s driving, he replied, “Junior? Hell, he’d run wide open all the time….Yeah, he was pretty bad about that. He was always blowing a head gasket or somethin” (Menzer, 61). Junior had a talent for making his cars faster with better handling than those of the law’s. Outrunning law enforcement officers became a means for the drivers to learn the knowledge needed in increasing a car's, or racecar's performance.

The Bristol Motor Speedway has earned a reputation as the world’s farthest Half-Mile. Darrell Waltrip, a resident of Tennessee, is Bristol’s most successful racer of all time. Through 2010, Waltrip had won at the Bristol Motor Speedway a record 12 times. (av2books)

Known as the Intimidator, Earnhardt wasn't afraid to bump and bang his way to the front, but off the track, he was a shy man who appeared not to enjoy the glare of the spotlight. Dale Earnhardt was a throwback to the days when

Dale's father helped him out with racing by helping him build motors, and giving him used tires left. When his father died it left Dale in a situation where he had to make it on his own. Dale once said, " I'd give up everything I got if he were still alive, but I don't think I'd be where I am if he hadn't died."

The emergency crews came in and took Kenneth and he was successful revived at the hospital. However, the doctors told Tammy that Kenneth has suffered brain damage and he was put in life support. Kenneth was taken off life support and has passed

Dale Earnhardt was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina on April 29, 1951. He was developing a strong life in cars and he loved it. Dale dropped out of school in the ninth grade to pursue his racing dream. His dad Ralph Earnhardt died of a heart attack in 1973 and that had a big impact on Dale’s life because he wanted to be just like his father a professional racer. Throughout the time since he dropped out of high school he went through a lot of jobs.

Ralph D. Abernathy Sr. was born on March 11, 1926, in Linden Alabama, the 10th of 12 children born to Louis Very Abernethy and William Abernathy, a farmer and deacon. Upon graduating from high school, Abernathy was drafted into the U.S. Army in the middle of World War II, subsequently leaving his family's 500 acre farm.

Dave Eggers was born on March 12, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts. Eggers was the son of a lawyer and a school teacher. Although he was born in Boston, Eggers was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. Eggers went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study journalism, but then tragedy struck for the young college student. Both his father and mother both became ill with cancer and died a short time later.

Allison Willis was known by the name of Ali to her friends and she too was a high school dropout. Allison had many outbursts and often times acted crazy but her parents seldom said or did anything because they felt it related back to when she was raped at the age of fourteen. Lisa introduced Bobby and Allison in a selfish attempt to better the relationship that she (Lisa) had with Marty.