Eel River Racing announced the signing of NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver Kenny Wallace to a three-year contract beginning in 2001. The agreement with Wallace reunites the St. Louis native with veteran crew chief and Eel River Racing part-owner Barry Dodson. Dodson, the championship-winning crew chief in 1989 with Kenny’s older brother Rusty, first worked with the younger Wallace for three races in 1991 at Team III Racing. The most recent pairing of Dodson and Wallace came in 1998 at FILMAR Racing, where Dodson chiefed the recent hire to a strong eighth-place finish at Phoenix while subbing for interim crew chief David Ifft(Eel River Racing PR) and see SpeedVision story(9-1-2000)
