Davey Allison’s sense of humor matched his competitive drive

Posted on July 11, 2018July 12, 2018 by Chase Wilhelm

When Davey Allison climbed into the No. 28 machine and strapped on his helmet, he was a fierce competitor. But off the race track, he loved to get a good laugh.

It takes a ton of moxie and grit to win 19 NASCAR premier series races in such a short time period, but it was Davey’s goofy personality that makes the Class of 2019 NASCAR Hall of Fame driver known for so much more than just his titanic on-track performances.

“He was like a little kid and he was just so funny and goofy, you just couldn’t help but laugh,” his widow, Liz Allison, recalled to NASCAR.com. “He told really stupid jokes that you really wouldn’t laugh at but, because he was so goofy that you would laugh.”

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One story in particular has to do with a turkey call that was found as Liz continues to go through Davey’s possessions, posting them on social media for NASCAR fans. The turkey call recollection always leaves Liz and Davey’s son and daughter, Robbie and Krista, in stitches.

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“This makes me laugh really hard because this is a turkey call, and one of the most irritating things ever,” Liz said while opening a fresh box. “And (Davey) used to go through the house and turkey call after (the kids) and … everybody would yell in the house because nobody wanted to hear it, and he thought it was hilarious.

“That’s the goofy side of him that I’m talking about. So, the turkey call is something that makes me laugh.”

“Do you remember when we were little and we used to do this at each other to irritate each other?” Robbie asked Krista during the interview session at Liz Allison’s home in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this year. “We’d go down in the basement and I remember … when we’d be going to the room where we kept a lot of his stuff, she and I would race into the room so one of us could grab it first and do it to the other one.”

“It makes me cringe,” Krista said.

Moments like the turkey call are ones that keep Liz going and give her the strength to rummage through Davey’s belongings left behind, churning up laughs and lifelong memories through the heartache.

“With them not knowing who their dad was, it was important for them to have everything that they could have to remember their dad,” Liz said. “And part of that is the trophies and the keepsakes.

“They need to have a sense of that goofy, funny Davey because there was so much sadness around who their dad was. I wanted one day for them to be able to pull out that baseball glove and that bowling ball and go, ‘Wow, you know what? This is when dad was having fun. This was when he was wearing that hat and those boots and he was walking proud.’ ”

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Posted on July 11, 2018July 7, 2020 by Kathy Sheldon

Both Robbie Allison and Krista Allison Sheinfeld have felt the absence of their father, Davey, at different points in their lives. In each instance, their grandfather, NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison, has helped fill the void.

Robbie was two weeks shy of his second birthday and Krista was 3 years old when their father was killed following a tragic helicopter crash in 1993. In the 25 years since, both have been close to their grandparents, with Bobby often at the center of important moments.

Krista said she realized her dad wasn’t there when daddy-daughter dances came around in her early teens. But his absence struck her anew on her wedding day.

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“My now husband and I were talking about, just the ceremony itself and most girls go down the aisle with their dad. And I had a moment where I was like, ‘Oh my goodness. I don’t have my dad to walk me down the aisle,’ ” Krista said. “But I had my grandpa walk me down the first half, I guess, in memory of my dad and then Ryan, my stepdad, walked me down the second half. So I have not missed out, that’s for sure. But I do have these moments where I have a realization of missing him.”

Robbie expressed similar sentiments about missing his father more as he has gotten older.

“You’re not grieving when you’re a child, because you don’t remember your dad, and so everything seems normal until you get older and you start to understand the loss,” he said.

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For Robbie, reaching out purposefully for a visceral connection to his father wound up building a deeper relationship with his grandfather.

“I definitely think part of me pursuing racing was to achieve a little bit deeper of a relationship with my dad, and to be honest, I think a lot of it was just to see what it was like,” Robbie said.

Robbie got into racing late models, earning two wins at Anderson Motor Speedway in South Carolina.

“It gave me an opportunity to spend a lot of time with my granddad, who’s my best friend in the world,” Robbie said of his four years racing competitively. “My granddad always told me, he never really cared that much whether I pursued racing as a career or not, but he always wanted me to try it, just to see the hard work that goes into it, to see the long hours you put into it, and then get that gratification of building that car, understanding that car, and then racing it, and making improvements.”

That time gave him chances to learn more about Davey from Bobby.

“I’ve always learned a lot about him through my granddad,” Robbie said. “My granddad, he always has been very focused on wanting me to understand what kind of man my dad was, and that’s something that has been priceless for me.”

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Posted on July 11, 2018July 12, 2018 by Brad Norman

Sometimes when Robbie Allison goes golfing, or perhaps just when he’s missing his father, he’ll break out 1980s-style golf shoes to wear when he hits the links.

They are Davey Allison’s old golf shoes, still kept and maintained 25 years later.

They fit Robbie perfectly.

“I love that we have his stuff,” Robbie Allison says at his mother Liz’s home in Nashville, Tennessee. “Some of it means more to me than others, especially the things that we have in common like his golf shoes. Those fit me perfectly. … Those tangible things that you can wear and see and feel, those mean more to me than anything else.”

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The shoes are a tiny part to the many items the Allison family has kept over the years as a way to honor and treasure Davey’s memory and legacy following his tragic death after a helicopter crash in 1993.

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The Allison collection of Davey’s possessions has grown over time, swelling with fresh material thanks to the outpouring of support from fans.

Over the years, Liz Allison, Davey’s widow, says fans will send pictures, clothing and more.

“I still get pictures,” Liz says. “People send me pictures still. Like they’ll come across, maybe they’re cleaning out their garage or something and they’ll find stuff. I actually had somebody send me a message recently and said, ‘Hey, I have an autographed hat that I’d like for the kids to have in the collection.’

“We so appreciate that people have kept all this stuff through the years, and that they would share it with us.”

A family favorite is something Robbie wears when the weather gets cooler. It’s a sweater, “clearly from the ‘80s” he says, with Bobby Allison’s 1988 Buick Regal on the front, styled in a classic 80s way that makes it almost look like graffiti.

It’s a compliment-getter whenever he wears it.

“It’s one of those things that you could wear it now and it would look like somebody had made it this year,” Robbie says. “I swear, I only get compliments from people that are like 25 and under. And they’re like, ‘Dude, that is sick, where did you get that?’ ”

Wearing that sweater, or the golf shoes, or perhaps using Davey’s old fishing rods or bows brings a sense of proximity to his father that Robbie otherwise might not experience.

He was not yet 2 years old when his father died, yet his favorite hobbies are exactly the same as his dad’s. That he can enjoy them while using his dad’s gear creates a bond between the two, even though Davey no longer is here.

“I love that we have those things in common,” Robbie says. “I love that we still have those pieces of him intact, and that we can hold onto those and I can pass those on to my kids, and it can be part of our family forever.”

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Posted on July 11, 2018July 12, 2018 by Zack Albert

Liz Allison chose not to go to the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Voting Day in May this year. Instead, she opted to watch on TV right along with other stock-car racing fans.

When NASCAR Chairman & CEO Brian France uttered Davey Allison’s name among this year’s five selections, the sense of relief took over as she fell to her knees and cried.

“That was the biggest,” Liz Allison said. “I felt like I could breathe.”

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Her late husband’s legacy will live on next winter upon his induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s Class of 2019. For Liz, the recognition of Davey’s accomplishments stands as a special honor, but the lasting impact of having his memory endure in the sport’s shrine serves as an even greater comfort.

“He will never be forgotten, and that’s been my biggest fear is that he would be forgotten, is that people wouldn’t remember him,” Liz Allison said. “They wouldn’t remember the driver that he was, the competitor that he was but the person that he was. They won’t remember.

“They won’t remember that he played a part, that he made an impact on the sport. He is a part of why the sport is the way it is today. And that everybody in that garage area, every driver, they could take the Davey Allison course of how to be a fan favorite and they would do really well. None of that will ever be forgotten now. That’s just the biggest sense of relief.”

One of Liz Allison’s first phone calls went to her daughter, Krista Allison Sheinfeld, who described the emotions as “just pure joy.” For Krista and her brother Robbie, the announcement meant that two generations of Allisons would forever be linked in the Hall (their grandfather, Bobby, Davey’s father, was inducted as part of the Class of 2011).

“I think it is so cool to know that he left something behind that will last forever, that is there for people to see for decades,” said Sheinfeld. “And that he’s in there with my grandpa now, I think that is such a cool connection, that he and his dad are both in the Hall of Fame together. I know it just means so much to all of us that he’s going in this year.”

Said Robbie Allison: “I’ve always felt, like he continues to be remembered after all these years, that there’s this sense of immortality about him. Now, he really is immortal. He’s in the Hall of Fame. He’s an integral piece of NASCAR’s history, and he earned it, he deserved it, and we could not be happier or more proud.”

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Posted on July 11, 2018July 12, 2018 by Brad Norman

Twenty-eight. 28. Two-eight.

It was the number Davey Allison made famous on tracks around the country, piloting the No. 28 to all 19 of his premier series victories before passing away following a tragic helicopter crash in 1993.

For his daughter Krista Allison Sheinfeld, it’s more than a number.

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The number 28 has yet to disappear for Sheinfeld following the days, months and years since the accident on that somber summer day. In fact, it’s become something more.

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“I see 28s all over the place, non-stop,” she said. “When I’m going through something, when I’m having a happy time, I just see 28s on … I look at the clock and it’s 12:28 and then I look at my phone and I’m at 28 percent. And I bought a car recently and there were two 28s in the final price tag.”

Having lost her father at a young age, the struggles that have come since haven’t always been the easiest to handle. However, the memories of her father don’t come with as much heartache as they once did.

Yet, 25 years have yet to drown out the emotions that certain days evoke for the Allison family.

“My dad’s birthday and the day that he passed, every year, are really hard for me,” Sheinfeld said. “Everyone handles things in a different way. I tend to handle things where I just want to be by myself. I don’t really want to talk about it that day and that’s just how I handle it. So those days are rough, but you get past them.”

When Sheinfeld goes back to her normal routine, she feels her father is sending her reminders in his own way.

Reminders that life moves on in the most beautiful ways.

“It’s always for me when I see those 28s. It’s almost a little sign that he’s there and he’s telling me it’s OK or that was the good choice or, ‘I’m here to help you.’ It’s kind of a gut feeling that I get from those little 28 signs everywhere,” said Sheinfeld, age 28.

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Posted on July 11, 2018July 12, 2018 by George Winkler

“What’s your name and are you married?”

It wasn’t a flashy pickup line, but that’s what Davey Allison said when he first met Liz Allison before a race at Summerville Speedway in South Carolina on a low-country, steamy August night.

It was so hot, Liz Allison admits she almost backed out from a friend’s invitation. But the friend, who was dating one of the competitors, promised an exciting time since some NASCAR greats were in town before their premier series race at Darlington.

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Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wallace were two of the drivers expected to be on hand, so after some coaxing, Liz relented and threw on a T-shirt, some shorts and flip-flops to head out for the race.

When she got to the track, Liz was sitting in the back of a pickup truck before the races got underway when a man who was not exactly dressed for the weather conditions hopped up into the truck and uttered that line.

“I thought, ‘Wow, that’s kind of forward,’ ” Liz Allison said. “He had on black corduroys and a long-sleeved shirt. I thought, ‘Who in the world is this crazy guy with these corduroys on and this long-sleeved shirt when it’s steaming hot here in South Carolina?’

“He started talking to me, and then it was time for him to race, so they asked if he was ready to go. He said, ‘Hey, will you hold my hat for me?’ ”

Liz did not recognized the man, but after several fans came by asking about how Davey qualified at Darlington, she began to get the picture.

“When he came back over, we started talking again and I realized that he was Davey and that’s why these people were asking me where he qualified,” Liz Allison said.

“It was just a short meeting. He jumped on top of the pickup truck, we talked for a few minutes, he raced, he came back for a minute and grabbed his hat back and asked if he could have my phone number. …

“So, I thought, ‘Well now, I won’t hear from him. He won’t call.’ And he did call. He called the next day and so, that’s when I really got to know him. … That was in August and I didn’t see him again until November, so there were a lot of phone calls, and so that’s how I got to know him. We just kind of sparked this friendship over the telephone.”

A friendship that would lead to so much more.

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Posted on July 11, 2018July 12, 2018 by George Winkler

A little boy driving his Matchbox cars is a scene probably played out thousands of times a day in living rooms all across the country. But when you’re Robbie Allison, son of Davey Allison, moments like these are meant to be cherished.

So it was this past Memorial Day weekend when Robbie’s son Theo was playing in front of the TV while the Coca-Cola 600 blared in the background.

“That’s the first sound that Theo started making, the ‘Rrrrrr-rrrrrr (of the cars),’ ” Robbie Allison said. “He gets glued to it. Our granddad (Bobby Allison) said that dad started making car noises when he was 9 months old. But my son was 4 months old, so I always tell my granddad … Theo’s got dad beat.”

And just like that the four generations of Allison men have shared a connection.

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For Robbie, finding those connections is invaluable.

“My son’s 18 months old now, and so I constantly think about, this was about the age I was when he passed away,” Robbie Allison said. “Just seeing my relationship with my son, and that bond, has really allowed me, internally, to get to know my own dad better in that experience. It’s a life-long journey, for sure.”

What’s just as important is spending as much time as possible with Theo, something Robbie didn’t get the opportunity to do with his own dad.

“My son and I are really attached to each other, and I try to spend every moment away from work, every moment that I can with him,” Robbie Allison said. “I see that if I get home after he falls asleep, the next day he’s that much happier to see me. You can see, at 18 months, there’s that bond. He knows who his mom is, he knows who his dad is, and he misses us when we’re gone.

“I think back on me being 23 months old and losing my dad, and thinking of what I must have gone through as a young child, as a toddler, knowing that you’re missing that role that you’ve gotten to know, and that you’ve come to rely on, and had this unexplainable bond with, and then to miss that piece,” Robbie added. “It’s weird to think about that from the outside looking in, and then take a step back and realize you’re thinking about yourself.

“It’s me that I’m kind of analyzing in that situation, and it makes me that much more motivated to be as active of a father as I can. And to just do whatever I can for my son. Give him the best life, the best father/son relationship he could possibly have.”

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Posted on July 11, 2018July 12, 2018 by Pat DeCola

Come January, Davey Allison will hold a place in NASCAR’s Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2019.

Consider that the late driver’s second home, as Allison has resided in fans’ hearts for three decades.

Bursting onto the scene full time in 1987, Allison rocketed to Rookie of the Year with two wins and a career high five poles. The son of NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Bobby Allison, it didn’t take much success to achieve fan-favorite status, but Davey over-delivered.

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Allison continued to excel into his early 30s, winning 10.6 percent of his remaining races, his star power increasing by the lap.

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Allison had his career and life tragically cut short in 1993 at the age of 32, however, leaving the NASCAR family to mourn. To the fans, the loss was especially heartbreaking.

The love he and his devotees had for each other was deep and mutual.

“I think the reason fans connected so much is because he did go so out of his way and they could see it,” said Krista Allison Sheinfeld, Davey’s daughter. “They could see his genuine friendliness and his genuine care for his fans. He knew they were the reason he had a job outside of obviously his driving talent, but you don’t get very far without fans.”

Following his Hall of Fame nomination this past May, Bobby Allison said that after Davey died, “the mailman delivered 1,300,000 pieces of mail to my house in five weeks.”

1.3 million.

“The thing that most people seem to hold on to was when they met him in person,” Allison’s son, Robbie, said. “That’s the thing I hear more often than anything else is, ‘Oh, I met your dad at Pocono, I met your dad at New Hampshire, I met your dad at Talladega. He stopped. He looked me in the eye as he smiled at me. He shook my hand. He talked to me. He signed autographs for six hours after a race.’

“It was always him making time and treating everybody with humility and respect. They saw that he was genuine and he was real and he was humble, but he wouldn’t give up an inch on the track.”

With Allison set to be enshrined, fans who weren’t able to meet the down-to-earth kid from Hueytown, Alabama, before his passing will get a chance to soak in Allison’s legend.

The 19-time winner would’ve loved to see people relive his career.

“He loved the fans. Oh my god, he loved the fans,” Allison’s widow, Liz, said. “He loved the energy that they brought to the sport and loved … listen, he loved that people knew who he was. He loved that he was an Allison. He loved that he had a part of making the sport what it is today. So, I don’t think there was anything that he didn’t love about it.”

And there wasn’t anything fans didn’t love about him.

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Posted on July 10, 2018July 11, 2018 by Chase Wilhelm

CONCORD, N.C. — Sixteen Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series teams took part Tuesday in the first of two test sessions on the Charlotte Motor Speedway road course ahead of the Bank of America ROVAL 400 on Sept. 30.

Drivers got a look at the updated layout after the track unveiled it and the race distance for the Bank of America ROVAL 400, the first road course race that will be featured in the NASCAR Playoffs. The 400-kilometer, 109-lap event will be the longest road-course race in NASCAR, with a track length of 2.28 miles and 17 turns.

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There was much to be learned and many takeaways drivers were buzzing about throughout the session. A slight change to the curbing of the backstretch chicane was made during the morning session, which extended the test to 6 p.m. instead of the originally scheduled 9-5 stint.

“How many different opportunities we have to bust our butt around this race track,” noted Jimmie Johnson, driver of the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. “It’s very demanding. There are some blind corners, which are fun. A lot of surface changes, as you can imagine. There’s parking lots and an existing road course in here and we’re coming in and out of parking lots and on the old road course and different sections, so the road itself is pretty rough.

“You’ve got to be on your toes. There’s a big penalty if you err on the side of too much aggression.”

Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, picked up on what spots will be most critical for the race.

“The places that you can gain and lose the most time are the places that you’re going really, really fast or really, really slow,” Newman said. “Trying to get those things as clean as you possibly can is probably the most important part. The infield part of the course is a challenge, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think there is as much time to be made there as some of the fast or stop-and-go stuff.”

Bubba Wallace slammed into the tire barriers heading into the entrance of Turn 1 just after 10 a.m. After incurring heavy damage on the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Chevrolet and with no backup car available, Wallace and the crew packed up early and were unable to continue.

Chase Elliott also found trouble early in the session after the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet had a mechanical issue. The team was able to make a quick fix and return to the track for the rest of the test.

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Michael McDowell looped it during the late afternoon session, spinning the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford off-course, but continued.

The next test session for Monster Energy Series drivers will be July 17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, and fans are welcome to to attend the event.

Below are the drivers who participated in Tuesday’s session, along with those who will test July 17:

July 10: Chris Buescher; Kurt Busch; Chase Elliott; Denny Hamlin; Kevin Harvick; Jimmie Johnson; Kasey Kahne; Brad Keselowski; Kyle Larson; Michael McDowell; Paul Menard; Ryan Newman; Ricky Stenhouse Jr.; Daniel Suarez; Martin Truex Jr.; Bubba Wallace.

July 17: A.J. Allmendinger; Aric Almirola; Trevor Bayne; Ryan Blaney; Alex Bowman; Clint Bowyer; Chris Buescher; Kyle Busch; William Byron; Austin Dillon; Ty Dillon; Erik Jones; Joey Logano; Jamie McMurray.

Posted on July 10, 2018June 17, 2021 by @KESELOWSKI

Chase Elliott unveiled his special paint scheme for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series’ annual throwback race at Darlington Raceway at the Hendrick Motorsports shop on Tuesday.

The blue-and-yellow scheme on his No. 9 Chevrolet is a nod to Elliott’s late cousin Casey Elliott, who ran a similar look in a variety of colors in the NASCAR Southeast Pro Series and two races in the Xfinity Series in 1993. Casey Elliott passed away in 1996 at the of age 21 from bone cancer, 47 days after his cousin Chase was born.

Chase Elliott, along with father and Hall of Fame driver Bill Elliott and Casey’s father and renowned engine builder Ernie Elliott, were on hand for the official unveil at the team’s campus. It was an idea the younger Elliott dreamt up during a production shoot last season and worked with Casey’s sisters to make it happen.

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“I had the idea last year and unfortunately we already had other plans. … He was 94, so I might draw a 4 next to the 9 when we get there,” Elliott told NASCAR.com with a smile after the reveal. “… Our family has some pretty rich history in racing. Been doing it for a long time and it’s an honor to still be doing it and try to carry it forward and do my part there.

“I never got the chance to get to know Casey, but I always heard my fair share of stories and certainly always heard he was a good guy and I know everyone liked him and the biggest thing was how much everybody missed him. And I think that kind of showed the true story of what kind of person he was.”

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Born into a racing family, Casey Elliott’s longtime dream came to fruition when he began racing in NASCAR’s Southeast Pro Series. He earned the pole position in his official series debut in 1992 at Lanier National Speedway, finishing second and earned eight top-10 finishes in his two-year career in the series.

He was set to begin racing full time in the Busch Grand National Series in 1994, when he received his bone cancer diagnosis that disallowed him from racing. Following that, Elliott became involved motorsports ministry Motor Racing Outreach until his death on Jan. 14, 1996.

“It’s a tough thing to bring up in a lot of ways because it was a tough time for everybody back then,” Chase Elliott said on the ideation for the scheme. “Just wanted to make sure I did it the right way and try to bring it as positive as a manner as I could and hopefully go to the race track and do the same there.”

For the the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports driver, the paint scheme is a way to honor his cousin and share his story, which is one that not everyone knows.

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“We’ve done my dad’s throwbacks the past couple years and obviously everybody knows him and knows his history in racing, but not everybody knows about Casey and his history in racing,” Chase Elliott said. “He was off to a great start before he got sick and was racing what is now the Xfinity Series and was doing a good job at it. Could have had an opportunity to move on and be racing in Cup. …

“Honor him is the biggest thing. Because I didn’t have a chance to get to know him, I felt like this was a cool thing to do. Just make people aware that there was another Elliott that was coming along racing that had a great shot to go do things and unfortunately ended too soon.”

Bill Elliott and Ernie Elliott saw the scheme for the first time Tuesday as they pulled back the black cover off the No. 9 to unveil the tribute to Casey Elliott.

With the photo of Casey’s No. 94 projected behind him, Bill Elliott smiled when he reminisced on his nephew.

“Casey was always kind of playing jokes,” he told NASCAR.com. “But he had an old Ranger pick-up that had a tag on the front that said ‘who knows, who cares.’ And that was kind of the way he lived. I could tell you story after story of the things that kind of we went through, going to the races and following him around the race track and the things that Casey did. And hell, even helping me back in the 80s, back when we were racing a lot. You’d see him in the garage trying to help not only Ernie, but myself. …

“He was just such a good kid and he had such a good outlook on life and he’ll always be remembered.”

For Ernie Elliott, having Chase run a scheme that honors his son is “special,” for more than just sentimental reasons. He hopes it brings awareness – and in turn, helps advance research – for the disease that took his son away.

“He was a really good kid,” he said. “Really loved racing and that’s what he wanted to do. Things just didn’t work that direction – you never know where life’s going to take you. … Hopefully a lot of good will come out of it. …

“I think the more important thing is … the honor of recognizing (him) this way but also the fact of what he went through the last couple years of his life and bringing that to life because cancer research needs to go at a fast pace than what it’s going today. It is considerably better than what it was 25 years ago, but there’s still more that can be done. And to be able to do this, hopefully that brings some emphasis to those programs, that they can be properly funded or funded better than what they are right now.”