You don't know her like I do

Chapter 23: your really something special

Ally's P.O.V

We begin to pull of pit road and I'm feeling really good. I'm really trying to focus on making my family proud to show them all that I belong here. "Can you hear me ally?" I hear mark come in across the radio. "10-4." I reply. "Good luck out there. You got a lot to work to do so be patient don't rush and wreck remember, this isn't your car." Mark reminds me. "10-4. I think mr. Penske would be upset if I hurt his baby." I say. " I sure would but thank you for doing this Allison. Good luck out there kid and how many times have I told you to call me Rodger." I hear mr. penske come over the radio and speak to me. "10-4, mr. Pe- Rodger. It's been my pleasure." I say as I get ready to go green. "Alright. Ready. Ready. Green. Green. Green. Go. Go. Go" My spotter Travis Michaels yells through my ears. Time to do this.

Lap 12: 26th place

Lap 36: green flag pit stops begin. 16th

Lap 85: Justin Allgier spins cause 4th caution of the night but hello p5

Lap 106: 20 to go. P3 and Ryan leads. (Disclaimer: I didn't look to see how many laps this race really is so we're just gonna go with 120👍)

At lap 113 I'm up to second and hot on Ryan's tail but everywhere I try to make a move he blocks. "Damn Ry. Chill out." I say to myself. "Allison your running the same line as Ryan in turns 1,2 and your running a different line in 3 and 4 but you gain time there. Try running the same line this next lap and she if it helps." Mark call to me over the radio. "10-4" I come around to the start finish line and try what mark tells me. It works in 3 I follow the same line and get right to his bumper and try to pass him and we are dead even. "12 at your quarter." I hear Travis come over the radio.

I'm shaking as me and Ryan fight for a good 5 Laps and before I know it the white flag is out and i just pray Ryan keeps racing me clean. We are in turns 3 and 4 and as we come to the line we know it's gonna be a photo finish. "Ally....." I hear mark say as I anxiously wait to hear what follows. "......burn rubber baby girl. You just won at Darlington." My dad finishes and I can't help but go crazy. "Yeahhhhh. Tell Ryan my bad but damn does this win feel good." I scream through the radio as I ride up and down the front stretch to the flag stand, grab the checkered flag and begin my burnouts.

When I pull into victory lane I still am unable to wipe this smile off my face. I did it. I proved my aunt wrong right in front of her own eyes. I see the whole Penske crew that helped make this car amazing, my dad, mark, Travis, my family and even Ryan. I take off my helmet and I begin to slide out of the car and stand in the window. "Yesssssssssss." I feel mixtures if beer and water being sprayed everywhere. I hop down and smile at the interviewer who is waiting to ask me questions. "Young 23 year old Allison sanders take home a victory tonight in the 22 tire discounter ford. That was a crazy finish tonight, talk to us about it." The reporter asks. "Yeah. That was crazy. I'm just so happy that Ryan decided to not dump me in the wall. He had so many opportunities to do it and drive off with the win and honestly he should be here. He had such a great car and he was actually in his own teams car and started so much better than me. But I'm so thankful for the opportunity these guys gave me this weekend. They are all amazing and put me in such a great car. I thought we had lost the entire race with the air gun issue on pit road but we bounced back great and I'm very thankful we did. " I conclude and grab the towl someone swung over my shoulder earlier to wipe my face off. "What was it like having that close of a finish with your boyfriend being the one competing for the win with you?" She asks. "It was definitely crazy. I was hoping that if I were to race to the finish with someone it would be anyone but him but you can't pick and chose who you race against but he did great like I said I feel he had a better car than me." I concluded. "Well I'm let you go celebrate Allison but before I let you go any one or sponsors you wanna thank?" The reporter asks. "Yeah I'd like to thank my family who is actually here this weekend to watch me, my crew chief, my dad, Ryan, these guys who made such an amazing car, mr. Penske, Mr.Hendrick." I conclude as she finally walks away and I feel like 5 people run up into me and engulf me into a bear hug. When I look up I see my dad, mark, Ryan, Beth and Sierra and grandma and grandpa are sitting there ready for there own hug while Caleb and my aunt just stand over to the side. "Let's get some pictures." I hear some yell so I have to let go of them and go stand with the team and Rodger. Then we all take one with Ryan, then my dad and soon everyone is in the picture except my aunt and Caleb who declined the offer. Guess they still can't see how happy I am.