By Rick Houston
When Alan Kulwicki crashed out of the fall Dover race late in the 1992 Winston Cup season, his hopes for winning a championship that season were dashed.
The mishap dropped him from third to fourth in the standings, 278 points behind then-leader Bill Elliott. With just six races remaining on the schedule, it was too much ground to gain and too little time to do it.
Or was it?
With Elliott starting to falter as the campaign wound down, Kulwicki started to gain ground … and then more and more. Going into the 1992 Hooters 500 at Atlanta, the season finale, Kulwicki somehow managed to find himself second in points, now just 30 points behind new leader Davey Allison.
This is how it all panned out. This is crew chief Paul Andrews’ story.
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