Loy Allen Jr.

1971-1993: Loy Allen Jr. began racing go karts at the age of five in Raleigh, North Carolina.[2] He continued to progress his way up through each racing circuit level. By the age of 16, he had won several World Karting Association Championships and had already graduated to racing dirt late model cars.[2] He also earned his Commercial Pilot’s license from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, as his passion for aviation[3] paralleled his passion for racing.[2] After 22 years in racing, Age 27 came as the biggest break in Loy Allen Jr's racing career. He qualified and made his NASCAR Winston Cup debut in Daytona Beach in July 1993.

1993: Loy Allen Jr. made his Winston Cup debut at the Daytona Super Speedway Pepsi 400 on July 3rd. He drove the #37 Naturally Fresh Ford, a former Robert Yates Race Car, starting in 40th position, finishing in 29th. He went on to compete at the Talladega Super Speedway Diehard 500 on July 25th, where he placed 26th in the #37 Naturally Fresh Ford. Following that race, he joined the TriStar Motorsports Team in October at the Phoenix Raceway Slick 50 500. He drove the #68 Country Time Ford, finishing 26th.

1994: After winning eight poles in 15 starts and a race victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the ARCA Series,[4] Loy Allen Jr. continued on driving for the TriStar Motorsports Team in the #19 Hooters Ford. It was at that season-opening Daytona 500 Super Speedway that he became the youngest and first Rookie in Winston Cup history to win the Daytona 500 pole.[1] He finished 22nd. He sat on two more poles that year at Atlanta and Michigan. In May, he finished 11th at the Charlotte Coca-Cola 600. He went on to place 15th at the Dover International Speedway Budweiser 500 in June and placed 17th at the Pocono Raceway Miller 500. In July, at the Daytona Pepsi 400 Super Speedway, he was edged out of sitting on the pole by hundredths of a second, by the late Winston Cup race car driver, Dale Earnhardt Sr. Allen had one of the weirdest seasons in NASCAR history, posting no wins and no top tens, had an average finish of 28.8 and finished 39th in the standings. However, he scored the aforementioned 3 poles despite DNQ-ing from 12 events along the season.

With 7 DNFS, the TriStar Motorsports Team and Loy Allen Jr. achieved a Top-10 finish in 1994.

1995: Loy Allen Jr. ran four races in partnership with the Junior Johnson Motorsports Team in the Hooters #27 Ford. He ran seven races in partnership with TriStar Motorsports. In their first race at Talladega, Loy Allen Jr sat on the outside pole, finishing 10th, his career-high Winston Cup Nascar finish to date.[5]

1996: Early on in the Winston Cup Season, a crash at Rockingham Speedway resulted in a neck injury that put Loy Allen Jr out of commission for several races. He recovered and returned to the Pocono International Raceway Winston Cup race, finishing 23rd, followed by 21st at Talladega Super Speedway.

1997: Loy Allen Jr. continued racing with the TriStar Motorsports Team. He finished 26th at the Daytona International Speedway, and 43rd at Rockingham Speedway.

1999: After a two-year hiatus, he qualified for both Michigan and Daytona.

Loy Allen Jr made four appearances in the Busch Series racing during his Winston Cup career, with one Top-10 finish at Charlotte.

1995: At the Charlotte Race in May, Loy Allen Jr qualified 21st in the #19 Chevrolet. An unexpected multi-car crash on the 27th lap led to time spent in the Garage during the race, and a finish of 43rd.

1997: Loy Allen Jr started the inaugural race at California in the #48 UniFirst Ford Thunderbird, replacing Randy Porter. He started 42nd and finished 35th.

1998: Loy Allen Jr achieved a 7th place finish at the Talladega Super Speedway in the #78 Church's Chicken Chevy--his career-high Busch Series finish.

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings. * – Most laps led.)

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)