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Alan Dennis Kulwicki (December 14, 1954 – April 1, 1993), nicknamed "Special K" and the "Polish Prince", was an American auto racing driver and team owner. He started racing at local short tracks in Wisconsin before moving up to regional stock car touring series.
Jan 8, 2023 · Alan Kulwicki and three colleagues were killed April 1, 1993 when their private plane crashed while attempting to land in Kingsport, Tenn., for that weekend’s Cup race at Bristol. Davey...
Apr 2, 2018 · Less than five months after scoring his greatest professional triumph in one of stock-car racing’s grandest upsets, Alan Kulwicki was gone. The corporate jet from his sponsor, Hooters, had nosed...
Noted Wisconsin short-track racer Alan Kulwicki moved to Charlotte in 1984 with nothing but a pickup truck, a self-built race car and the hopes of competing in NASCAR’s highest series. He had no sponsor and a limited budget.
Mar 31, 2018 · The story has been told for over two decades of the tragic losses of Alan Kulwicki in April in Tennessee and Davey Allison in July in separate aircraft incidents. Kulwicki was just coming...
Dec 14, 2020 · The racing career of Alan Kulwicki, or 'Special K' as he was known to some, began on the short tracks of Wisconsin before he made his way to NASCAR in 1984. Competing in what is now the NASCAR...
Jan 23, 2019 · Kulwicki, the independent, the “underdog” as he was affectionately referred to, had pulled off one of the greatest championship runs in NASCAR history – defeating the season-long favorites who...
Wisconsin in the 1960s and '70s was a hotbed of short track racing heroes and legends. Unique among them was Milwaukee's Alan Kulwicki. His goal, from early on, was to win a NASCAR Championship and he was unrelenting in his pursuit of it.
Apr 3, 1993 · Alan Kulwicki, the Wisconsin-born racing driver who won the 1992 Nascar championship, was killed Thursday night along with three other men aboard a private plane that crashed while attempting to...
Kulwicki, the reigning Winston Cup champion, died in a plane crash on his way to a race at Bristol in April of 1993. Learn more about Alan Kulwicki, a Member of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega, AL.
