1997 Allison Legacy Series Hayes Jewelers Challenge

[@AustinLaPlante]

True Liquid Gold right here. Wow. Never thought this series had a TV broadcast of some kind.

[@mossrm]

Allison Legacy race nationally televised on ESPN2 at Martinsville is absolutely wild...but 4 separate crashes in the first 2 1/2 laps before a yellow totally checks out

[@de31168]

Well most of them were under 18 but Kelly Sutton did go on to race the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

[@LU71flames]

I own and race one of these cars! Literally just ran them Saturday night at caraway speedway! The fact that there is a broadcast of them in espn 2 is absolutely mind boggling!!! Thanks for uploading this it’s so cool!

[@de31168]

You're welcome and good luck with your series!

[@TheSlothNerd64]

Other than Clay Campbell and Kelly Sutton, never heard of any of the drivers in the field.

[@TracksideViews]

Like big go karts you would ride at the beach

[@BradRains]

Does this racing series still exist?

[@DanArnets1492]

Absolutely nobody did anything big after appearing in this event

[@de31168]

Kelly Sutton

[@ajcrdstr24]

Blake Bainbridge is currently crew chief for Daniel Dye in the Truck Series, Clay Rogers won numerous races and championships in Hooters Pro Cup and ran in Cup, Xfinity, and Trucks, Doug Stevens has been a big part of Legends racing nationally over at least the last couple decades and still races on occasion today, Rob Rizzo did some road racing as well as a season in the Truck Series, Clay Campbell is still president of Martinsville Speedway, Danny Doeler ran ASA for a couple years, Jayme Bolkovac (now Beck) and Mike Smith continue to race on dirt tracks in eastern Ohio & western Pennsylvania.

[@RC.41]

@@ajcrdstr24Bainbridge looks like he could have been a star.

[@ajcrdstr24]

@RC.41 yeah...I only remember him running a handful of Late Model races after Allison Legacy and then suddenly made the big jump to driving a few Truck Series races. Pretty sure he qualified top 10 in one of them.