Rusty Wallace and Ray Evernham announced that they will team to pilot a #2 Chevy in the March 21st Saturday Night Special at Bristol Motor Speedway. The event marks Wallaces first career start at Bristol while driving a Chevy. Said Wallace,”When the opportunity to run this race first came about, of course I was interested, but I just didnt really pay it a lot of attention. But then, when I saw all of these guys signing up to run, there was no way I was going to let Junior Johnson, Harry Gant and those guys get another chance at Bristols Victory Lane without me. Ive been in Victory Lane there a lot of times before and you can bet that Ray and I are going to be trying like heck to get there again. Everyones acting like this things just going to be for charity, but you better believe that were all in it to win it. Ray and I are bringing a bad little hot rod painted up just like my old Miller Genuine Draft cars and were going to try to take it to them one last time at Bristol.”
Noted Evernham,”When you look back at it, Rusty and Jeff (Gordon) were really the guys to beat at Bristol for a long, long time. Through all of those races, Id like to think that Ive learned a few tricks about how to get around Bristol. Believe me, were going to use all of them that Saturday night.” Wallace and Evernham both currently serve as studio analysts for ABC and ESPNs coverage of NASCAR and can be seen each weekend during NASCAR Countdown.(Rusty Wallace Racing PR)(2-28-2009)
