March 24, 1998
- Ricky Craven began rehab at the University of North Carolina Medical Center on Wednesday and he hopes to be back in the #50 Bud Chevy by July 1st but realizes his condition could keep him sidelined for 6 months or be career threatening.(WC Today Radio/PRN-RPM2Nite), get well soon Ricky(3-24-98)
- Brett Bodine has a new crew chief: Gere Kennon who was the shop foreman with the #36 Skittles Pontiac team and the former crew chief on the #75 team was named crew chief of Bodines Team Scandia #11 Paychex Ford(RPM2Nite)(3-24-98)
- RPM2Nite mentioned that Randy LaJoie may run 10 of the next 12 races in the #50 Bud Chevy, didn’t mention anyone else but possibly Robby Gordon(3-24-98)
- A Ford led every lap of the TranSouth 400, the first time a manufacturer has done this since the fall of 1985 at the Holly Farms 400 in North Wilksboro(WRAL-WC Today Radio), check out the stats at Jayski’s Stat Page.(3-24-98)
- Ricky Rudd is made his 600th career start at Bristol(WRAL)(3-24-98)
- From the StockCarFans Newsletter thru a source: “NASCAR was asked about the reportedly illegal rear deck lid on the car it took to the wind tunnel. They had not originally intended to take the 2 car, Rusty’s. They were planning to take the 99, but
then it wrecked on the final lap. So they had to scramble to pick another Ford and they didn’t get to it in time to wave Rusty off from going to the gas pumps. They ran over there, told the crew to stop what it was doing right then. They had already pulled one of the clips holding the rear deck down because they were getting ready
to fill it with gas so it could be weighed. When they fill the car from the pumps, they have to raise the deck lid to do it. So one pin was off and then they started pushing it to pit road. One crew chief (Evernham, the NASCAR guy said) saw the pin off and started wondering if there might be some illegal device at work. For a spring
gizmo to work to raise or lower the lid, supposedly, the pin or pins would have to be out. That may be utter crap, but that’s what NASCAR told me when I asked about it.”(StockCarFans)(3-24-98) - Dick Trickle did double duty today at Martinsville as he tested his #90 Helig Meyers Ford and Kevin LePages #91 LJ Racing Chevy as LePage was in Charlotte on business and is rumored to be taking the seat in the #1 Pennzoil Chevy as the sub for injured Steve Park. Lake Speed also tested at Martinsville.(WC Today Radio/PRN)(3-24-98)
- Randy LaJoie(#50), Wally Dallenbach(#46) and Andy Hillenburg(#95) were at Texas Motor Speedway today, but didn’t get track time as even though the weather was perfect, the ‘weepers’ were still present, water seeping thru the track.(WC Today Radio/PRN), Dallenbach scraped the right side of his car against the outside wall at the exit of Turn 4 during a solo run. No other runs were attempted. The teams hope to test on Wednesday and Dave Marcis may take some laps in the #46.(That’s Racin)(3-24-98)
- NASCAR has fined BGN driver Phil Parsons and Gene Nead, crew chief for Parsons’ No. 10 Dura-Lube Chevrolet, $2,500 each due to their actions before Saturday’s
Busch Series Diamond Hill Plywood 200. Nead will be suspended until April 15th and both Parsons and Nead will be on probation until December 31st, 1998. This actions comes after a garage area fight between Need and BGN driver Blaise Alexander. Parsons was not in the fight but did nothing to stop it. Nead was upset over an on-track run-in between Parsons and Alexander during the race on 3/15 at Nashville. Parsons said he would act as crew chief during the three races scheduled while Nead is suspended(many sources)(3-24-98) - Bobby Labonte announced in victory lane that he would donate his winnings from the Diamond Hill Plywood 200(BGN) to injured bullrider Jerome Davis. Davis of Archdale, N.C. was seroiusly injured in a bullriding accident in Fort Worth, Texas one week ago.(3-21-98) – A fund has been set up to help cover Jerome Davis’ medical expenses. Contributions may be made to: Wachovia Bank, c/o Pam Shaw or LeeAnn Leach, 10806 N. Main Street, Archdale, N.C., 27263. Davis suffered a compression fracture of two vertebrae at the base of his neck when he was knocked unconcious and thrown to the
ground head first. He underwent two hours of surgery Sunday and remains hospitalized at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. According to Justin Sportsmedicine Director Tandy Freeman, Davis is in stable condition but is paralyzed from his chest down. His long-term prognosis is unknown.(StockCarFans), best wishes Jerome(3-24-98) - The cars dyno tested were the following: (we watched most of process and have pictures of the cars waiting to be tested which will be added to the website today (http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/r/a/racecar3/)):#2 Rusty Wallace; #24 Jeff Gordon; #12 Jeremy Mayfield; #99 Jeff Burton; #5 Terry Labonte; and #88 Dale Jarrett. All these cars were lined up for the dynotest. The #24 was tested 1st, and inline were the #2, #12 #5 and #99. When we came back from Victory Lane, the #99 and #5 were gone and the #88 was tested prior to the #2 and #12 cars. We never witnessed the #99 and #5 being tested, but they were in the lineup. Also, both had been moved from the lineup, along with Gordon’s car to the another location of the garage area.(StockCarFans/Nancy)(3-24-98)
- Here’s an interesting rumor from a Dutch autosport site, courtesy of Harald via StockCarFans Email Newsletter: “Ex-F1 driver Gerhard Berger reportedly wants to go to NASCAR. It has been reported that Michael Kranefuss (of German origin) has offered Gerhard Berger a testdrive. Gerhard Berger attended the first race of the Fedex-CART championship. He said he has no ambition in that direction. ” NASCAR seems to me a lot more fun” he added.(StockCarFans)(3-24-98)
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