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Engine test for unleaded fuel

"NASCAR will have a special engine test of new unleaded racing gas at Talladega next week. According to NASCAR sources, teams will have to switch from leaded fuel to unleaded fuel by next July. Hendrick's engine department, headed by Randy Dorton, apparently has an...
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Slugger Labbe to work with Dale Jarrett

"Richard "Slugger'' Labbe, the ex-Hendrick man who has moved to Robert Yates' operation to work with Kenny Irwin this fall, will be moving to the Dale Jarrett team next season as the new right-front tire changer and man in charge of car preparation."(JournalNow)(10...
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U.S. Road Racing Championship

Plans for a new U.S. Road Racing Championship (with the support of NASCAR behind it) were announced on Thursday (10/2/97) in New York after a meeting of track owners, promoters and series officials, including NASCAR President Bill France, Jr. However, Andy Evans, $...
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Rusty’s penalty

"NASCAR'S Gary Nelson, reacting to Rusty Wallace's 500,000 pennies as payment for his Martinsville fine, said Wallace's payment for yesterday's finish might be late in arriving . . . because it may take a while for him to find that many pennies. If Wallace had won ...
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Latest on Roger Penske, Michael Kranefuss deal

"The Roger Penske-Michael Kranefuss ''strategic alliance'' is moving along, according to sources close to the situation, although none of the principals is saying much on the record. The key news is that Carl Haas, Kranefuss' business partner in the NASCAR team for...
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Weird but true

Weird but true: Dale Jarrett had a left front spring rubber fall out of his car on the 2nd to last pit stop which caused concern for the crew but the #88 Ford handled better than it had all day and he won the race. Bobby Labonte had an engine cylinder crack about 1...
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Gordon tops $4 million in season winnings

"Gordon tops $4 million in season winnings. He came up short of a victory in Sunday's UAW-GM Quality 500, but Jeff Gordon did surpass $4 million in prize money for the season. The 26-year-old, who set the season record of $4,347,343 when he won the 1995 Winston Cup...
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DeHart to Hendrick or DEI?

"According to my Sunday morning edition of the Raleigh News & Observer there's a rumor that Gary DeHart will not be returning to the Hendrick's team in any capacity, but instead will be going to Dale Earnhardt's new Winston Cup team with Steve Park."(NASCAR Fan...
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Rusty Wallace news

From the Rusty Wallace Fan Club meeting: Rusty said that they will be announcing a new associate sponsor in the coming weeks, he said that it would be Lennox Heating & Cooling and that the logo would go around the bottom of the car. Rusty was asked about a two ...
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Richard Petty financial situation

Here is some news I hear about the Richard Petty financial situation: I hear from someone close to the team that Richard Petty is NOT in financial trouble. It seems a lady opened a furniture store and used his name for marketing purposes...with his permission....and...
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New crew chief for Geoff Bodine

I hear that during happy hour practice it was mentioned that Pete Peterson is the new crew chief for the #7 and Geoff Bodine(10-5-97)...
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Lepage back with LJ Racing at Talladega

During NASCAR2Day on ESPN2 before the race, Kevin Lepage was interviewed and said he would once again be with the #91 Pionite Chevy and LJ Racing next week in Talladega as the team was happy with his 12th place qualifying run(10-5-97)...
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Andy Graves to the #5 next year?

Also mentioned during NASCAR2Day was that #25 Bud Chevy crew chief Andy Graves may move over and crew chief the #5 Kellogg's Chevy in 1998(10-5-97)...
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RCA, Andretti leaving Yarborough?

RCA says it won't return as the main sponsor of the No. 98 Cale Yarborough Motorsports Winston Cup entry for '98. Also, driver John Andretti is expected to leave Yarborough and to replace Bobby Hamilton with the No. 43 Petty Enterprises team."(SpeedNet)(10-5-97), so...
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RCA not returning

"Cale Yarborough made it official yesterday, RCA won't be back as sponsor next season. But Yarborough said he isn't releasing John Andretti from his driving contract yet, despite reports that Richard Petty had asked Yarborough for permission to talk with Andretti. ''...
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Steve Hmiel to DEI?

"DALE EARNHARDT might be trying to hire Steve Hmiel to help run Steve Park's team next season, but Earnhardt might not be willing to pay Hmiel as much as Jack Roush, according to sources close to the situation. Hmiel, meanwhile, has begun working the garage for a crew...
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Could Slugger Labbe return to the #5 team?

"Rick Hendrick is trying to get Richard 'Slugger' Labbe to return to Terry Labonte's team, following crew chief Gary DeHart's sudden reassignment, according to sources close to the Hendrick camp. However, Labbe, who left the team two months ago to work for Robert Yates...
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Bill Elliott fans

Bill Elliott fans: Mike Mulhern has an excellent story about Elliott today, sounds like the interview was done at Martinsville, Running on Empty , the story mentions "Elliott's second team, being run out of his Dawsonville, Ga., shops, has four or five Grand National...
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Wally Dallenbach to Japan with Woody Woodpecker

Wally Dallenbach will be going to the exhibition race in Japan with a Woody Woodpecker Paint scheme.(NASCAR Online)(10-5-97)...
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Cup debut for Kevin Lepage

Kevin Lepage made his WC debut today at Charlotte in the #91 Pionite Chevy and started 12th which is LJ Racing's best starting spot in it's brief WC history. (Greensboro News & Record-Bob Zeller)(10-5-97)...