Kenneth Allen (born November 22, 1956) is an American former professional

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driver in the

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. He earned one top ten finish in 41 career starts. Allen also raced in the ARCA Racing Series, where he finished 10th in points in 1993. In both series, he mostly drove for his family team, AAG Racing.

Racing career

Allen made his series debut in

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running nine races, in his own No. 65

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. His first start came at the Milwaukee Mile, where he qualified 27th, but came home with a solid 15th-place finish. In the other eight starts, he would take on three more top-20 finishes, the best being a 13th at Indianapolis Raceway Park. His best season came in

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, where he made twenty of twenty-four races. In his return to Milwaukee, he finished tenth, his only career top-10, but had seven other top-20 finishes. However, Allen's big problem was DNFs. In his twenty starts, he did not finish eight of them. After sponsor ONSAT left, Allen only made ten starts in

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. His best finish was only a 15th at Miami, but he also earned his first career top-10 start. He started the Texas race in 7th position. Allen would only make one start in

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, when he drove the No. 82 Ford for Core Motorsports at Texas, where he started 35th and finished 28th due to a crash. After not running any Truck races in

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, Allen returned in

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and started the season with a DNQ at Daytona. Allen's only other race of the season came at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where he did qualify for the race but finished last on the field after transmission trouble. Both of these starts came in the No. 28 Chevrolet for

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, where he would also fail to qualify for Daytona with them the next two years. He never made another attempt in the series after that.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

Craftsman Truck Series

ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series

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) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Kenny 1956 births NASCAR drivers ARCA Menards Series drivers People from Shelby, North Carolina Racing drivers from North Carolina Living people