Yesterday, 1990 Knoxville Nationals winner Bobby Allen started his 80th year on this planet. Although four years younger than Mario Andretti (and, incidentally, having retired from active competition at the same age), they both started racing the same year, in 1959, and two years later, when Phil Hill became the first US American to win a World Championship in auto racing, Bobby certainly looked the better bet to follow in his footsteps. Fate, however, decided otherwise, and soon their career paths crossed over each other, with Bobby ending up where Mario had started: on the weekly dirt track circuit.
Celebrating the career of the first driver to reach the milestone of 2,000 entries in my data base, I was going to irregularly post in this thread all of those, and a detailed look into his fascinating career. However, I still don't feel much like contributing substance to this forum ever again after recent events, so it's probably going to be tumbleweeds instead. Unless, of course, somebody else will step in? Feel free.