Bobby Allison won the first restrictor plate race, the 1988 Daytona 500, beating his son Davey, who finished second.

Ironically, it was Davey who won the last non-restricted race at the big tracks, the previous year in May. The last two plate races of 1987 were run with a 390 cfm carburetor, mandated for the cars after Bobby Allison almost went into the grandstands at Talladega the previous May.

All time restrictor plate winners:

1) Jeff Gordon - 12 wins
2) Dale Earnhardt - 11 wins
3) Dale Earnhardt, Jr. - 7 wins
4) Dale Jarrett - 6 wins
5) Sterling Marlin - 5 wins
6) Davey Allison, Ernie Irvan & Michael Waltrip - tied at 4

Other winners on plate tracks include Jimmy Spencer, Darrell Waltrip, Harry Gant, Phil Parsons, Greg Biffle, Ken Schrader, Jamie McMerry, Kyle Busch, Terry Labonte, Bobby Labonte, Brian Vickers, Bobby Allison, Derrike Cope, Ward Burton, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick.

But since there are some people at this site that say restrictor plate racing is not real racing, Jeff Gordon only really has 69 career wins, Dale, Sr. has 65 and Jr. only has 11.

They ran RPs in the early 70's some too.

But your not gonna come back two laps down under green like Elliott did!That was racing! Think that one over!

LOL,jlb.I work with a guy that thinks that way.Can't stand Nascar racing. 

that's an interesting post there pf.

From what I've gathered via news stories and callers to Sirius, there were just as many Gordog fans that were PO'd when he did that fantastically classy tribute to Big E last year.

The only problem I had with that tribute was that he did not tie The Intimidator at Bristol last year, because then I would have been there and I would have been able to tell everyone that I was at the race when he tied the win total and I raised my beer in salute to a great accomplishment.

I also knew that he stood a good chance of passing the win total the following week at Talladega and I was really hoping that he wouldn't do it there because it was easy to see the ugliness that was going to happen. What was really interesting about that race was not so much what occurred on the track, but the immediate aftermath when all of the h88turs came in and started blaming Jr. nation. For sure some of those peeps didn't want any success for Gordon, but one picture that really told the tale of the tape was the fan in handcuffs wearing the Jimmy Johnson ball cap.

I subscribe to the concept that anyone can say they are a Jr. fan when it suits their purpose of starting a good bash of Jr. or his fans on the way down the road of hate and discontent.

I like to refer to those times as drive by Joonyers.

However, I digress....

Idiocy and hate knoweth no distinction between paint schemes (or last names).

I just love how some people presume to tell us what "real racing" is.  And then if we don't subscribe to their narrow definition of what the sport "should" be, somehow we're not real race fans and are lesser people for it.

This makes them come across like snobs and elitists.

Well, I've got news for these people.

The next time they go take a dump, they need to turn around and take a good sniff of what's sitting there in the toilet, and realize that their sh!t stinks just as much as anyone else's out there.