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Waltrip and Mayfield battle in Oklahoma City

Michael Waltrip and Jeremy Mayfield put on quite a show at Oklahoma City. In a 12 lap "heat" Race on the 1/2 Mile Dirt Oval, Michael Waltrip piloted his borrowed car to a win. The Prostock/Late Model Sportsman cars belonged to local racers. Jeremy Mayfield finished...

Good Will Games ’98 scheme for Waltrip

The Wood Brothers & Michael Waltrip will be sporting a "Good Will Games '98" paint scheme for The Winston this year.(5-5-98)...

Oklahoma State Fair Speedway

Sterling Marlin, Kenny Wallace, Jeremy Mayfield and Michael Waltrip will be in Oklahoma City, OK this Friday night(5/8) at the Oklahoma State Fair Speedway in the 2nd Annual 'Race of Champions', it's a 50 lap trophy dash in local racers rides. Ken Schrader, Harry Gant...

Kenseth future plans

If Matt Kenseth, who won the Grand National race at Rockingham with a bullish pass past Indy star Tony Stewart, does well at Talladega, the question would be what Roush has planned for him next season. One possibility is a car provided by the Wood Brothers for selected...

Testing at Greenville-Pickens Speedway

Morgan Shepherd(#31), Sterling Marlin(#40) and Joe Nemechek(#42) tested Wednesday at Greenville-Pickens Speedway(SC). Five more teams are expected to be there on Thursday including Michael Waltrip(#21).(Radar)(4-8-98)...

Waltrip and Dillon fined

NASCAR officials announced fines, in the amount of $2,000 dollars each, to twodrivers, Mike Waltrip and Mike Dillon. The fines stem from an incident in the pits where the two met after wrecking on lap 214 of Moore's Snacks 250 in Bristol. NASCAR, after reviewing tapes...

Practice notes

Michael Waltrip wrecked his primary #21 Citgo Ford during practice and had to go to his backup. Ken Irwin tagged the wall during his qualifying run but didn't do much damage(3-27-98)...

Little, Waltrip wreck in practice

Chad Little wrecked his #97 John Deere Ford Taurus during the morning practice on Saturday and Michael Waltrip wrecked his #21 Citgo Ford during Happy Hour practice. Both will have to start the Las Vegas 400 in a back-up cars from the back of the field, Little 42nd...

Ford test speeds

Found out some very preliminary speeds at Ford's private test of the Taurus at Charlotte today: Dale Jarrett(88)-176.750mph; Jeff Burton(99)-176.298; Greg Sacks(98)-176.183; Brett Bodine(11)-176.068; Ricky Rudd(10)-176.010; Jimmy Spencer(23)-174-701; Michael Waltrip...

Ford testing

Taurus Testing Not Going as Well as Hoped. For the past few days Talladega Superspeedway is a site that that is as heavily guarded and top secret as many government operations. Specifics are not easy to come by, but things are not going as well as Ford and the teams...

Ford testing

UPDATE: The Ford teams get a rare chance to test in December as NASCAR has allowed them a chance to test the new Taurus at Talladega on Dec 16-18th, this test will not count toward the 7 tests WC teams are allowed to do during the season(WC Today)(12-3-97), sorry I...

New schemes at Phoenix

"The Wood Brothers CITGO Ford of Michael Waltrip is in retro-trim for the Dura-Lube 500 presented by Kmart. The No. 21 Ford features he candy-apple red and white colors of the team's cars from their "glory years" in the 1970s with drivers like Cale Yarborough and David...

Waltrip tests Taurus

"Michael Waltrip tested the 1998 Taurus Winston Cup car last week at Talladega Superspeedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway. The Taurus is replacing the Thunderbird as the Ford production car represented in the Winston Cup series. "Until you actually put the car on the...

No Fear Challenge

A few Winston Cup drivers were in the No Fear Challenge in California: Ernie Irvan, #28 Federated Parts Ford(starting 8th), Kyle Petty #42 Hot Wheels Chevy(26th), Robby Gordon #18 Dana Dodge(18th), Michael Waltrip #1 Band-Aid Ford(27th).(10-18-97)...

Testing at Talladega

But.....The #21 Citgo Taurus did test on Monday at Talladega and Michael Waltrip said the car was good and the Woods bros were happy with the results and will test there on Tuesday also. 6 Chevy teams also did some testing of the SB2 engine. That explains the second...

Michael Waltrip to Petty?

I see this rumor has returned: Speaking of who'll be back, Michael Waltrip might not be - at least not with the Wood brothers' No. 21 car. Sources close to the situation say Waltrip, who's 18th in the points standings, is being courted by Petty's No. 43 vacancy, and...

Waltrip to remain with Wood Brothers

Len Wood says Michael Waltrip will remain with his team next season, despite strong reports Waltrip is under consideration for the Richard Petty ride. ''We have heard the reports,'' Wood said, ''but Michael says he's not leaving.''(JournalNow)(10-12-97)...

BGN News all rumored here long ago

Matt Hutter to the #36 Stanley Tools Pontiac; Ryder will sponsor the #88 Chevy driven by Kevin LePage; Patty Moise will drive the #14 Rhodes Furniture(an Atlanta-based furniture acquired by Richmond's Heilig-Meyers nearly a year ago) Ford owned by Michael Waltrip in...

Wood Brothers

"And another shakeup might be looming, this time within the Wood brothers' team. Michael Waltrip, their driver, is under consideration for the ride with Richard Petty, according to sources close to the situation. What the Woodses might do for a new driver if Waltrip...

Patty Moise to the #34 BGN team

On Friday, Patty Moise will announce her 1998 Grand National plans,(Michael Waltrip owned ride) as will Team 34 Racing. Todd Bodine is leaving that team for Winston Cup next season(Charlotte Observer)(10-1-97)...