1992 Pro Stock Car Racing Season
64 drivers represented in full-color standard and TV cards, based on the real-life 1992 pro racing season. Also includes set of 16 black-and-white Track Cards based on actual pro racing venues.
It’s the 30th anniversary of one of the greatest seasons in the history of stock car racing, and in celebration we’re proud to present the 1992 Pro Season cards for RED WHITE & BLUE RACIN’ Stock Car Action Game! This season was rated by our RWBR “go-to” guy, NASCAR historian and PLAAY Gamer Jerry Minks, Mountain City, TN. There’s just nobody out there who knows RWBR and NASCAR like Jerry does!
Jerry regards the ‘92 season as NASCAR’s best-ever. “I’d say it was the ‘high water mark’ of NASCAR,” writes Jerry. The year began with Richard Petty announcing his impending retirement from racing, turning the 1992 season into a “Fan Appreciation Tour.” All season long, Petty held autograph signing parties and handed out die-cast replica race cars to fans. Jerry notes, “it was the last year for the King and the start of the Jeff Gordon era. Meeting of the future and the past. Passing of the torch.”
In addition, the season was amazingly competitive. “There are about 30 drivers,” Jerry says, “who it wouldn’t have surprised me IF they had won a race that year. The season’s championship struggle came down to the final race in Atlanta with six drivers in the running: Alan Kulwicki, Davey Allison, Harry Gant, Bill Elliott, Mark Martin and Kyle Petty. Allison went into the race as the favorite, but got collected early on knocking him out of contention. As the race wound down, two drivers separated themselves from the pack: Elliott and Kulwicki. Elliott won the race, while Kulwicki finished second. But Kulwicki led 103 laps during the race (compared to 102 by Elliott), clinched the 5 bonus points for leading the most laps, and won the championship by a nose.
Sadly, both Kulwicki and Allison lost their lives within six months in separate air crashes (not race-related) during the ‘93 season.
Most of the tracks in this set are familiar venues for contemporary race fans. However, the ‘92 season did feature two races at the venerable Rockingham, NC track (known in ‘92 as North Carolina Motor Speedway). The track was sold a few years later, and eventually lost both its slots on the pro season schedule, but in ‘92 it was still rockin’ at Rockingham!
You get cards for the top 64 drivers of the '92 season, along with track cards for each of 1992's sixteen racing venues and an intro sheet with tips and insights on this historic racing season. Just $21 postage-paid! Available March 10th!