April 18, 2004
- Rusty wins at Martinsville – breaks 3-year streak: #2-Rusty Wallace won the Advance Auto Parts 500 at Martinsville Speedway for his 55th career Cup win [breaks a tie with Lee Petty and is now 7th all-time], his first in 105 races [at California Speedway, 4/21/2001] his 7th win at Martinsville Speedway, Rusty’s first ever win in a Dodge and first ever for #2 crew chief, Larry Carter. The win also puts the #2 team in the 2004 Winner’s Circle Program, which is now full with 12 teams. #18-Bobby Labonte was 2nd, followed by #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr., #48-Jimmie Johnson and #12-Ryan Newman. Good narrative of the race at ThatsRacin.com
INFO for my race rundown, see my Martinsville Race Info/Rundown Page, for Lucky Dog drivers and their finish, caution narrative, where did the top 10 starters finish…and more.
Results can be seen at:
ThatsRacin.com
MotorsportsOne
NASCAR.com.(4-18-2004) - Kulwicki Movie UPDATE – be an extra AND: a new website is up about the movie – Dare to Dream – The Alan Kulwicki Story, at daretodreammovie.com, just a one page site as of now. Past info on the movie on my Media-Movie page.(4-14-2004)
UPDATE: On April 18th you can have the chance to be an extra in Dare To Dream: The Alan Kulwicki Story. DDI Films, the Wisconsin based film company, will be shooting at Slinger Super Speedway in Slinger, Wisconsin on April 18th and would like people of all ages to appear as extras in crowd scenes starting at noon. Come out, meet new people and enjoy being in the upcoming feature film about Alan Kulwicki’s life from local driver to champion of the track. Sorry, don’t have any contact info to post.(4-15-2004)
COLUMN Kulwicki’s dream drives filmmakers – Movie to tell NASCAR champion’s story by Dave Kallmann of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel(4-18-2004) - Andrews and Garone at Martinsville…looking: on Saturday at Martinsville Speedway, a couple of out-of-work crew chiefs were making the rounds making contacts. Paul Andrews, who won a NASCAR championship with the late Alan Kulwicki and most recently worked with #99-Jeff Burton at Roush Racing until he was released, and former NASCAR tech center official Joe Garone, who formerly worked as a crew chief with a number of drivers, including Bill Elliott were both on site. Garone said he planned to attend a test next week with PPI Motorsports at Kentucky Speedway to work with driver Ricky Craven on a two-car test.(NASCAR.com)(4-18-2004)
- Triplett back in NASCAR…on the #80: Andy Hillenburg’s #80 Ford is sporting “Kevin Triplett for U.S. Congress” sponsorship on the hood of the Nextel Cup car this weekend at Martinsville Speedway. Triplett, a Republican candidate for Virginia’s 9th Congressional District, has hopes to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher who has held the job for 22 years. A former NASCAR official, Triplett has financial support coming from the garage with Jeff Burton being active in the campaign.(Insider Racing News)(4-18-2004)
- StockCarFans.com – Rumblings – Martinsville: It was a long time coming, but #2-Rusty Wallace finally answered that question today. Wallace outlasted #18-Bobby Labonte by 0.538 seconds to break his 105 race losing streak today at Martinsville Speedway. In a race delayed by an hour and 17 minutes for cement repair, Rusty took his 55th career win (he breaks a tie with Lee Petty and now occupies 8th all-time – and his 7th at this half-mile beauty. Rusty’s last win was at California Speedway in April of 2001. Wallace’s winning share of today’s Advance Auto Parts 500 was $170,998 from the over $4.7M in posted awards. He also grabs the final spot on the 2004 Winners Circle plan.
#32-Ricky Craven (16th) had his best finish since he was 8th at Talladega last October
#77-Brendan Gaughan (17th) had his career-best finish today. His previous best was 19th at Daytona in February
#02-Hermie Sadler (26th) had his best finish since he was 23rd at Richmond in September of 2002 (only 16 races)
#89-Morgan Shepherd (32nd) had his best finish since he was 32nd at Rockingham in February of 1999 (only 10 races)
STREAKIN….
#8-Dale Earnhardt Jr has 4 Top-10’s in the last 5 races
#48-Jimmie Johnson has 4 Top-10’s in the last 5 races
#12-Ryan Newman has 4 Top-10’s in the last 5 races
#24-Jeff Gordon has 4 Top-10’s in the last 5 races
This Week’s Elevator…UP: Operator of the Week (for the second time this season) is Michael Waltrip (+24), followed by Brian Vickers (+22), Bobby Labonte (+21), and Matt Kenseth (+21). DOWN: The Big Dropper was Jeremy Mayfield (-26), followed by Casey Mears (-25).
Dale Earnhardt Jr reassumes the top-spot in the points….he led the first two weeks of the season. The Top-6 are separated by 100 markers. We had a passel of drivers move forward three spots today. Rusty Wallace, Bobby Labonte, Dale Jarrett, Ward Burton, and Ricky Craven were the drivers in the Top-30 to accomplish that feat. Ken Schrader (27th to 32nd) fell the most spots.(StockCarFans.Com Nextelcup Newsletter)(4-18-2004) - Geoffrey Bodine at Martinsville: Even thou Goeffrey Bodine failed to make the Truck Series race, he will be on the track Sunday as it is the 20th Anniversery of Bodine’s and Hendrick Motorsports first Cup win. Rick Hendrick had the unsponsored #5 Chevy restored and Bodine will make a parade lap around the track.(4-17-2004)
Showed FOX showed part of the lap on lap 198 before commercial.(4-18-2004) - Free Windows: MW Windows will donate windows to the local Martinsville, Virginia Habitat For Humanity in the name of Jeff Gordon, this weekends Nextel Cup pole winner.(Insider Racing News)(4-18-2004)
- Donate Old Phones: Nextel is asking fans to donate their used cellular phones to support the American Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services. The phones, which will be collected at Nextel kiosks at Cup races, will be refurbished and provided to active-duty and community-based military with emergency communications to link with families back home.(Richmond Times Dispatch)(4-18-2004)
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