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Bobby Allison has done numerous interviews in recent weeks to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the famous post-Daytona 500 brawl, where he joined brother Donnie to engage in a fistfight with fellow driver Cale Yarborough.

That 1979 brouhaha on national television -- triggered by a final-lap crash that took frontrunners Yarborough and Donnie out of contention and allowed Richard Petty to get to Victory Lane -- is credited with putting NASCAR on the map.

But nobody else called Bobby Allison, a three-time Daytona 500 champion, to discuss the 50th anniversary of another Great American Race memory that many look back on with both joy and sadness.

It’s been a half-century since Jacksonville’s Lonnie “LeeRoy” Yarbrough passed Charlie Glotzbach on the last lap for his 1969 victory, which triggered one of the greatest seasons in NASCAR history.

Unfortunately, as much as Yarbrough’s rise to the top of