NASCAR’s Bobby Allison to appear at Orange Show Speedway

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Legendary NASCAR driver Bobby Allison is scheduled to be the grand marshal for the night’s racing Sept. 5 at Orange Show Speedway in San Bernardino.

Allison, 71, had 84 victories in what is equivalent now to NASCAR’s premier Sprint Cup Series of stock car racing, tying him with Darrell Waltrip for third on the all-time winners list behind Richard Petty (200) and David Pearson (105).

Allison said he is appearing in Southern California because he’s longtime friends with Rick McCray, a former NASCAR driver who now manages Orange Show Speedway, a quarter-mile track that features so-called late models and other minor-league forms of stock car racing.

Allison, a member of the famed ‘Alabama Gang’ of drivers that were prominent in NASCAR in the 1960s and ‘70s, now lives in Mooresville, N.C.

-- Jim Peltz