Kingspoint
11-09-2024, 08:38 PM
After Horse-Racing, Stock-Car racing was the most attended sporting event in the United States for many years.
Bobby Allison's time on the circuits helped to make that possible, including this famous melee with Cale Yarborough:
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This fight led to a $6,000 fine each for Yarborough and the Allison brothers. In 2000 when asked about the fist-fight Bobby said "I stopped to offer Donnie a ride to the garages and Cale comes running up saying I caused the wreck. I tried to tell him he had the wrong person. And I've said before, I think I questioned his ancestry. He hit me in the face with his helmet and I saw blood dripping onto my shirt. I thought 'If I don't stop this I'll be running from Cale for the rest of my life.' I climbed out and throttled him. He ran his nose into my fist several times. My story and I'm sticking to it forever. He never challenged me again. The fine surprised me, but the fact that it brought NASCAR onto the map makes it all worth every penny." To this day, Allison maintains that Yarborough was "beating his face on my fist".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Allison
Bobby Allison's time on the circuits helped to make that possible, including this famous melee with Cale Yarborough:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP. 7cnRc_eZ8dDf_4QD2qDjogHaGN%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=31e17104c9a746913b746d195cb8c6c36c61ed42e2cd44 ac7429b1c334e1e835&ipo=images
This fight led to a $6,000 fine each for Yarborough and the Allison brothers. In 2000 when asked about the fist-fight Bobby said "I stopped to offer Donnie a ride to the garages and Cale comes running up saying I caused the wreck. I tried to tell him he had the wrong person. And I've said before, I think I questioned his ancestry. He hit me in the face with his helmet and I saw blood dripping onto my shirt. I thought 'If I don't stop this I'll be running from Cale for the rest of my life.' I climbed out and throttled him. He ran his nose into my fist several times. My story and I'm sticking to it forever. He never challenged me again. The fine surprised me, but the fact that it brought NASCAR onto the map makes it all worth every penny." To this day, Allison maintains that Yarborough was "beating his face on my fist".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Allison