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Davey Allison held off Rusty Wallace by a car length to win the $551,921 First Union 400 at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway, giving Ford its seventh consecutive victory on the NASCAR circuit this season and 11th in a row since last year.
The 7-0 start breaks the NASCAR record of six consecutive victories by Hudson cars in 1952.
Allison, who let relief driver Jimmy Hensley qualify his car seventh Friday because of rib injuries suffered in a crash last week, took the lead on lap 313 when he beat Wallace out of the pits.
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