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Post by Calvin on Apr 1, 2012 9:34:53 GMT -5
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Post by robh on Apr 1, 2012 12:23:30 GMT -5
I hugely admired AK and still wonder what else he might have accomplished had his career continued. Have there been any other owner/drivers since his passing that have been as successful?
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Post by indycals on Apr 1, 2012 12:53:31 GMT -5
A very dark day. Alan was a class act and he is still greatly missed.
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Post by stonecold44 on Apr 1, 2012 15:36:10 GMT -5
I was flying down to Clearwater Florida for ice hockey nationals back then. I remember that well because Hooters was his sponsor and they originated in Clearwater. Very sad.
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Post by racerbrown on Apr 1, 2012 16:17:21 GMT -5
a guy who truly worked his way to the top the hard way. losing him and davey allison in the same year really took a lot of the fun out of racing for me.  duane |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2012 16:36:31 GMT -5
That whole year just sucked, but indeed April 1st was the most painful of the bunch considering it was unexpected and only months after he won the championship. Davey Allison's death was painful as well as I was hoping he would pull through. By the time we got to Neil Bonnett in early 1994, it seemed almost like there weren't any tears left to cry at that point, just an emptiness.
These days, I still think a little about Alan and when Tony won the championship last year, I flashed back to November 1992 and the exciting finish of the Hooters 500 in Atlanta since we hadn't quite seen anything as exciting since then in terms of a close points finish that came down to the final laps (and both Alan and Tony were my favorite drivers). But, the past is still the past. I've moved on for the most part. That is kind of why I don't quite understand some fans who still wear "3" and Dale Earnhardt Sr. memorabilia on their person and their cars. The man has been gone for 11 years and he is not coming back, any more than Alan will after 19 years (hard to believe next year it will have been 20 years). You don't wear the black armband forever (even if Dale did make black his preferred color).
Dan Wheldon, that is still a bit fresh yet. I'll probably never feel quite comfortable again the next time Indycars go to a 1.5 mile Nascar tri-oval (although we still don't quite know what these new cars will do on it either) and Vegas is going to have a stigma on it for awhile as well.
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