Rusty Wallace - Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season Site

Burdette Back? UPDATE:

sources tell me that former #98 team part owner, Wayne Burdette is looking to come back into the Cup Series with...get this...Baywatch (yep the show) as a sponsor in some way -- UPDATE: I now hear that Baywatch will be an associate sponsor on the #2 Miller Lite Ford...

1998 winners who didn’t win in 1999:

Bobby Hamilton, Jeremy Mayfield and Ricky Rudd are the drivers who earned victories in 1998 who did not win in 1999. Rudd failed to keep his 16 straight seasons with at least a win streak intact and was not able to extend it to 17 seasons. #2-Rusty Wallace is now the...

Hasbro Signs Drivers:

Hasbro Sports announced today that it has reached agreements with 29 NASCAR drivers enabling the leading publisher to develop interactive games featuring the drivers, their vehicles and teams. Hasbro Sports plans to release several NASCAR titles for a range of gaming...

Pit Road Incident:

Defending Phoenix race winner #2-Rusty Wallace lost any chance of repeating in an incident with #1-Steve Park and #60-Geoffrey Bodine as they left pit road during a caution-flag pit stop on lap 121. All three cars made contact and suffered sheet metal damage. Wallace...

The Dyno:

NASCAR brought its chassis dynamometer to the Rockingham track and tested six cars after Sunday's race. The cars tested were the Pontiacs of Ward Burton(#22) and Bobby Labonte(#18), the Fords of Jeff Burton(#99), Dale Jarrett(#88) and Rusty Wallace(#2), and Sterling...

#2 Associate:

The Lawman Armor Corporation announced a partnership with Rusty Wallace to endorse Unbrakeable Autolock, the company's latest breakthrough anti-theft device. The Lawman Armor Corporation and Wallace will officially announce their partnership at a news conference during...

Pemberton signs:

#2 driver, Rusty Wallace said Saturday that crew chief Robin Pemberton has a new deal with the team. Pemberton, whose contract expired after this season, signed a three-year deal Thursday( Roanoke Times )...

Penske Chassis:

Heard this on NASCAR2Day and during the race a few times - That #2-Rusty Wallace and #12-Jeremy Mayfield are using different chassis and are unable to share data when they test. I am getting a lot of email wondering what this means and maybe the team will switch to...

Short Track Season:

The short track 'title' goes to Rusty Wallace by four points over Dale Earnhardt. The top ten: 1) #2-Wallace 891; 2) #3-Earnhardt 887; 3) #6-Martin 838; 4) #88-Jarrett 835; 5) #40-Marlin; 6) #24-Gordon 788; 7) #44-Petty 772; 8) #99-Burton 766; 9) #20-Stewart 734; 10...

Cowboys and NASCAR:

The NFL Dallas Cowboys are negotiating to have two cars bearing their colors and logo race in next April's Direct TV 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway, owner Jerry Jones said Thursday. The two Winston Cup cars - one predominantly silver and the other predominantly blue...

Galaxy Motorsports:

#75 General Manager Jimmy Johnson and Owner Darwin Oordt have just signed Wally Dallenbach to a three-year contract, and they've signed a lease-engine program with Robert Yates for motors to be built on-site at the Mooresville shop, next door to Michael Kranefuss' ...

Micro Racing:

Members of the #31 Lowe's Chevy team for driver Mike Skinner will compete in a special Micro Sprint Car race Saturday night in New Castle, DE. RCR's #31 team manager David Smith and catch-can man Gary Gafgen will battle four Cup in the 10-lap race at Airport Speedway...

2nd Half Leaders:

Its not an official category, but the top 10 in points accumulated in the Winston Cup seasons second half (since the Pepsi 400 at Daytona) makes an interesting conversation topic. Rookie Tony Stewart leads with 1,422 points, followed in order by Dale Jarrett (1,298...

#12 crew?

Car owner Michael Kranefuss may be interested in adding Ryan Pemberton(present #36 crew chief, rumored to be out there) to his crew. Pemberton is younger brother of Robin Pemberton, veteran crew chief for Rusty Wallace(teammate to the #12)( PitNow )...

What Happend to the #79:

Andy Belmont was the morning's only terminal casualty, as he withdrew the #79 AOL Ford after posting the slowest time of the cars that practiced, about 1.5 seconds off Rusty Wallace's practice pace( NOL Notes )...

Pontiacs:

Tony Stewart and Bobby Labonte, finished 1 and 2, giving Pontiac its first 1-2 sweep since Rusty Wallace finished first and Kyle Petty second at North Wilkesboro in April 1993( SpeedNet )...

Rusty News:

Tom Knox has joined Rusty Wallace, Inc., in the newly created position of Director of Marketing. Knox comes to RWI after a two-year stint as an account executive with NASCAR. Based out of NASCARs New York corporate offices, Knox was responsible for sales and renewals...

#30 now #27 UPDATE:

Mike Bliss(of course this didn't happen, he went to AJ Foyt's team) is the odds-on favorite to be the driver of the #30 Eel Racing Pontiac next year. When Jack Birmingham bought the team from Chuck Rider, one of his first moves was to hire Barry Dodson to run the operation...

Short Track Points:

Although Kyle Petty has struggled recently, he should be one to watch at Bristol. Only Mark Martin (510 points), Rusty Wallace (496) and Dale Jarrett (487) have scored more points than Petty (427) on short tracks this season the Petty has( That's Racin' )...

Bliss to Cup? UPDATE 4:

I am hearing Mike Bliss may move up to a Cup ride on 2000 and this would be a logical choice since he worked with Barry Dodson in the CTS and BGN series -- UPDATE: CTS series driver Mike Bliss is the leading candidate to take over the driving duties with the #30 Pontiacs...