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Martin News:

The first week of the Valvoline Online Racing Auction on eBay.com raised approximately $40,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. The top item was a NASCAR race weekend as a Mark Martin honorary pit crew member, which attracted a bid of $12,000.(for more info...

Lowes Testing:

Lowes Testing: With Mark Martin not participating in the second day of the BGN test, his teammate, Jeff Burton, assumed the top spot on the speed chart with an unofficial lap at 176.470mph in the #9 Northern Light.com Ford Taurus. Rookie Anthony Lazarro was second-...

Sad News UPDATE:

Sad News UPDATE: Christain Lovendahl, crew chief for the #19 Team Yellow BGN team, was killed in an automobile accident Friday afternoon while returning from Richmond. Lovendahl, nephew of NASCAR Cup/BGN driver Mark Martin, had flown back to Concord, N.C., after the...

Charlotte Testing:

Charlotte Testing: #60-Mark Martin was the fastest in the first day of testing at Lowes Motor Speedway. For the top ten in speeds see That's Racin': NASCAR Grand National testing at Lowe's Motor Speedway(5-8-2000)...

#19 Team Update:

#19 Team Update: Following a team meeting held Saturday, Emerald Performance Group (EPG) crew members determined they would prepare to go to the next event on the NASCAR Busch Series schedule held in Loudon, New Hampshire next Saturday, May 13. Crew chief for EPG, ...

Double/Triple Duty at RIR:

Many drivers will run in two of the three Richmond NASCAR events this weekend. Attempting double duty are: Bobby Hamilton - #4 Kodak Chevy(Cup) and #4 Dana Dodge(CTS); Ken Schrader - #36 M&M's Pontiac(Cup) and #52 Federated Auto Parts Chevy(CTS); Mark Martin - #...

Driver Double Dip:

Nine Winston Cup drivers will attempt to make the BGN race at Richmond: #9-Jeff Burton; #17-Matt Kenseth; #20-Dave Blaney; #25-Kenny Wallace; #30-Chad Little; #31-Steve Park; #42-Kenny Irwin, #60-Mark Martin; #71-Kevin Lepage. Interesting ... all five Roush Racing ...

Valvoline/Roush:

Valvoline, the Lexington, KY motor oil company, which reportedly pays $8 million a year to be the lead sponsor on the #6 Jack Roush owned Ford, is in contract negotiations with Roush Racing, the company behind driver Mark Martin's Winston Cup car. The price tag for...

Wal-Mart to Cup?

Wal-mart might be the next new sponsor on the Winston Cup tour and could have a logo on Mark Martin's quarter-panel next season, according to NASCAR sources. That could be the trigger that Target needs to make the jump into Winston Cup racing, too.(PitNow) UPS and ...

Race Tidbits

from California. If #17-Matt Kenseth had won, he and fellow rookie, #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr. would had been the first two rookies to win a CUP race in the same since since 1981, when Morgan Shepherd won at Martinsville, VA and Ron Bouchard at Talladega. #6-Mark Martin...

Martin Honored:

#6 Valvoline Ford driver, Mark Martin earned first-quarter honors in 2000 Driver of the Year voting at ESPN. Martin combined his Winston Cup success and domination of the Busch Series edge Formula One driver Michael Schumacher in the first-quarter voting by a 16-member...

More Martin:

Mark Martin's on-track performance in the #6 Valvoline Ford, combined with contributions from Valvoline and NASCAR fans, has brought the current total raised for Big Brothers Big Sisters since 1999 to $291,938. Valvoline is donating $5,000 for every Winston Cup race...

Bad Parts:

The NASCAR Winston Cup hauler has a table that holds all of the items that are confiscated each week-end. Normally it's big enough to hold all the illegal items taken from the various teams. This week, at Talladega, the table is overflowing. The following is a partial...

Nine Different Winners:

Jeff Gordon is the ninth different Winston Cup winner in the first nine races in 2000. This extends the NASCAR all time record of nine, beating last weeks eighth. The old record was seven that happened in 1991 when the first seven winners were Ernie Irvan, Dale Earnhardt...

Wow, what a race:

#24-Jeff Gordon wins at Talladega and his 50th career Winston Cup win, the 11th driver in history to do so. It was #24 crew chief, Robbie Loomis's first win with the #24 team. Gordon who started 36th(almost had to take his first career provisional), breaks the record...

A few notes:

The #15 Ford with Ted Musgrave driving is White with a light blue stripe down the center of the car and light blue numerals on the doors. #6-Mark Martin has the Eagle One scheme as noted before, mostly black with some orange(4-14-2000)...

Bessey 2nd team tests and Talladega driver UPDATE 3:

#60 Power Team owner Joe Bessey, tested a #61 Power Team Chevy at Daytona on Monday in anticipation of launching a second team later this summer, possibly for the Pepsi 400 at Daytona. Bessey participated in the first day of a two-day test along with #6-Mark Martin...

Another Martin Scheme:

Mark Martin will debut the 2000 #6 Eagle One Taurus at Talladega. This is the third straight season that Martin has driven a car featuring Eagle One colors. In May, 1998, Martin won The Winston in an Eagle One car. (J-Mar Express Newsletter) See images of this years...

Records:

After 500 laps on Martinsville's 1/2 mile paperclip-shaped oval the Goody's Body Pain 500 records show there were 14 lead changes among 8 different drivers and 14 cars finished on the lead lap. There were also a record 17 caution flags totaling a whopping 111 laps ...

Eight Different Winners:

Mark Martin is the eighth different Winston Cup winner in the first eight races in 2000. This breaks the NASCAR all time record of seven that happened in 1991 when the first seven winners were Ernie Irvan, Dale Earnhardt, Kyle Petty, Ken Schrader, Ricky Rudd, Rusty...