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Gaughan to test #77 at Daytona:

Firming up reports that Craftsman Truck contender Brendan Gaughan will drive for a third Penske Racing team in 2004, Gaughan has been listed as driver for the #77 team in season-opening tests next week at Daytona International Speedway. Although no official announcements...

Rusty’s Busch Team Gearing up for 2004:

According to NASCAR great Rusty Wallace, perhaps the most action during racings so-called off season is occurring at 161 Knob Hill Road in Mooresville, NC. Thats the address of our brand new facility and were only about three weeks away from moving in, reports Wallace...

New Rusty Crew Chief? UPDATE 2 official:

hearing Larry Carter, current crew chief of the #74 BACE Motorsports Chevy and driver Tony Raines, is under consideration for the #2 Miller Lite/Penske Racing crew chief gig with driver Rusty Wallace.(12-12-2003) UPDATE: haven't seen anything official but on a unofficial...

Jason Hogan Tests a NASCAR Craftsman Truck:

Jason Hogan, NASCAR Southeast Series driver, was asked to test a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ride alongside of Rusty Wallaces son, Steven and other competitors. Hogan tested the Billy Ballew #15 at Peach State Speedway in Georgia on December 11-12 and by all indications...

New Rusty Crew Chief?

hearing Larry Carter, current crew chief of the #74 BACE Motorsports Chevy and driver Tony Raines, is under consideration for the #2 Miller Lite/Penske Racing crew chief gig with driver Rusty Wallace.(12-12-2003)...

Wilburn to be re-assigned? UPDATE 3:

hearing current #2 crew chief, Bill Wilburn, will not be the #2 Miller Lite Dodge crew chief in 2004, but will be be re-assigned within the organization, no word on any candidates yet.(10-24-2003) UPDATE: during rain delay coverage, NBC interviewed Rusty Wallace, driver...

Champ stuff:

so when #17-Matt Kenseth won the 2003 Winston Cup Championship, he became the 15th different driver [in 33 years] to win the 'Winston Cup' Championship and 26th different driver in 54 years to win the championsip in the top NASCAR series, know before 1971 as the Grand...

Some Interesting Stats:

----- The average age of a race winner so far this year is 31.75 years, the youngest since a 31.22 average in 1967. It's tied with 1964 for the sixth lowest all-time average age for a winner in a season. Just two years ago, in 2001, the winner's average age was 35....

#66 to test:

Rusty Wallace, owner of the #66 Duraflame Dodge that Billt 'Catfish' Parker will drive in 2004, said the team will test at Lakeland - USA International Speedway [FL] on Tuesday and Wednesday [Nov 18-19th].(11-16-2003)...

Past Ford Driver Champions:

1) Ned Jarrett, who is Ford's all-time race winner with 43, won his second series championship in 1965 and the first driver's title for Ford. 2) David Pearson is the manufacturer's only multiple champion as he won 27 races and captured 26 poles en route to back-to-...

Wilburn to be re-assigned? UPDATE 3 No, Rusty says he stays; Wilburn says they need to talk:

hearing current #2 crew chief, Bill Wilburn, will not be the #2 Miller Lite Dodge crew chief in 2004, but will be be re-assigned within the organization, no word on any candidates yet.(10-24-2003) UPDATE: during rain delay coverage, NBC interviewed Rusty Wallace, driver...

Rusty looking to talk to Tony:

#2-Rusty Wallace took the blame for an accident last weekend at Phoenix International Raceway that started when he bumped Tony Stewart. The wreck has caused Wallace so much anxiety that he's still not over it, he said at Rockingham. Wallace bumped Stewart in Turn 2...

Testing at Kentucky UPDATE:

a few NASCAR Winston Cup Series and Busch Series teams will test at Kentucky Speedway on Wed-Thurs, Nov 5-6. Mark Green will test the #10 Valvoline car, #79 Arnold Motorsports, not sure which driver since Billy Bigley, Jr. and the team split last week and Billy Catfish...

StockCarFans.com – Rumblings – Phoenix:

#8-Dale Earnhardt Jr powered past Jimmie Johnson on lap 252 and led the final 51 circuits to capture today's Checker Auto Parts 500 presented by Havoline at Phoenix International Raceway. It was the second win for Little E this season (he captured Talladega in April...

Rusty has his replacement:

#2-Rusty Wallace has offered no solid hints on when he will retire, but he has his replacement in mind. Billy Parker, a Late Model star who will drive for Wallace's new Busch team in 2004, apparently is being groomed to take over Wallace's No.2 Dodge at Penske Racing...

Wilburn to be re-assigned? UPDATE 2 will be back in 2004:

hearing current #2 crew chief, Bill Wilburn, will not be the #2 Miller Lite Dodge crew chief in 2004, but will be be re-assigned within the organization, no word on any candidates yet.(10-24-2003) UPDATE: during rain delay coverage, NBC interviewed Rusty Wallace, driver...

Get The Broom Out:

1) The Martinsville sweep by #24-Jeff Gordon was the first by a driver since Rusty Wallace won both races there in 1994 and first Chevy driver since Darrell Waltrip did it in 1989. 2) The Martinsville sweep from the POLE by Jeff Gordon has only happened once before...

Stock Car Fans – Rumblings – Martinsville:

Break out the brooms....we've got another sweeper! #24-Jeff Gordon completed the Martinsville Speedway sweep in today's Subway 500 in dominant style. He led 311 of the 500 laps and made it a Hendrick Motorsports 1-2 by finishing a little over one second ahead of teammate...

Testing at Phoenix UPDATE:

no speeds or official report, but hear that #29-Kevin Harvick, #20-Tony Stewart and #19-Jermey Mayfield tested at Phoenix Intel Raceway this week.(10-16-2003) UPDATE: With more than $10 million in track improvements completed at Phoenix International Raceway, the first...

Rusty’s Son Wins First Feature:

Stephen Wallace, 16-year-old racing upstart and son of former Winston Cup Champion Rusty Wallace, claimed his first career Late Model Stock Car win in a 200-lap feature event yesterday at the new Friendship Motor Speedway, a paved four-tenths-mile racetrack near Elkin...