Ernie Irvan News

Compton Wins/Irvan Returns UPDATE:

Compton Wins/Irvan Returns UPDATE:

May 14, 2001
Compton Wins/Irvan Returns UPDATE: Stacy Compton held off Michael Waltrip and Brett Bodine to win the 30-lap celebrity Late Model Stock shootout Saturday in front of about 10,000 customers, the largest audience ever at the .416-mile banked New River Valley Speedway

a Million for a sponsor?

a Million for a sponsor?

May 14, 2001
a Million for a sponsor? In an exclusive interview this morning, Speedwayillustrated.com spoke with Scott Bryant, owner of Bryant Motorsports, currently out of Richmond, Virginia. Bryant is the one making the million-dollar offer. Bryant Motorsports has been racing

TV News:

TV News:

January 26, 2001
TV News: Race car driver Terri O'Connell, a woman who was a man named J.T. Hayes until a sex change operation in 1992, will appear on the talk show Exhale on Oxygen TV. The show will air at 8:00pm on Tuesday, February 6th. As the man J.T. Hayes, Terri/J.T. made one

Education:

Education:

January 19, 2001
Education: Educators at Concord’s Cannon School will host Motorsports Engineering Day Friday in an effort to help students better understand the wide variety of job opportunities in the motorsports industry, as well as the tremendous impact auto racing has on area

#24 Pepsi Car unveiled:

#24 Pepsi Car unveiled:

January 9, 2001
#24 Pepsi Car unveiled: For the first time since 1983, NASCAR fans could see a Pepsi car in a Winston Cup winner's circle. Beginning this spring, Jeff Gordon will race the #24 Pepsi/DuPont car in two races - the spring race at Talladega on April 22 and the Pepsi 400

Irvan News?

Irvan News?

November 13, 2000
hearing retired Cup driver, Ernie Irvan, will not re-new the lease on his shop to Robby Gordon/Team Gordon and run a part-time BGN or CTS team out of the shop. Gordon is rumored to be driving the #4 Kodak car or the #7 NationsRent car in 2001, closing his own #13 Team

Tolsma Cup Debut UPDATE 2:

Tolsma Cup Debut UPDATE 2:

October 28, 2000
CTS driver Randy Tolsma will compete in the Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in a Team Rensi Motorsports Chevy. Tolsma will drive the Team Rensi NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series truck in 2001(NOL)(10-21-2000) UPDATE: Tolsma will drive the #61 E-Link Pontiac(not Chevy

TV Show:

TV Show:

September 5, 2000
on The Learning Channel - Crunch: Sports Collisions and Recoveries Crash and Smash(9:00pm). The description: Travel the long road to recovery with injured athletes. An Australia Rules Football sensation snaps his leg bones; a skydiver collides mid-air with a teammate

Walk of Fame:

Walk of Fame:

August 28, 2000
Bobby Hamilton, driver of the #4 Kodak MAX Film Chevy, will be inducted into the Talladega-Texaco Walk of Fame. The 43-year-old, Nashville, Tenn., native officially won the honor as voting ended last Thursday. Hamilton becomes the second Morgan-McClure Motorsports

Irvan’s Trophies were replaced UPDATE 2:

Irvan’s Trophies were replaced UPDATE 2:

June 30, 2000
meant that Sears Point replaced the trophies for Ernie Irvan's wins there(6-28-2000) UPDATE: NASCAR and the race tracks cooperated in reproducing the 15 race victory trophies Ernie Irvan lost in a house fire in March. The new, full-size copies were presented to Irvan

Irvan looking to own:

Irvan looking to own:

June 26, 2000
Ernie Irvan served as the grand marshal for the race. Irvan retired last fall after being injured in a crash at Michigan. He says he has no plans to return to racing as a driver but is looking at doing everything he can to put a team together, but not me as a driver

New Michigan Record:

New Michigan Record:

June 11, 2000
#20-Tony Stewart who won the rain-shortened Kmart 400 at Michigan, started 28th breaking the event record for the lowest start by a winner which was Ernie Irvan in 1997 when he started 20th, and the track record which was held by Harry Gant, who started 24th in August

Irvan on TV:

Irvan on TV:

May 26, 2000
Ernie Irvan will be hosting a TV show, "On the pole," on Fox Sports, airing on Sundays in July and will be hosting an outdoors show airing in November and December on ESPN2(NOL Chat)(5-26-2000)

Nine Different Winners:

Nine Different Winners:

April 16, 2000
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

Irvan at Martinsville:

Irvan at Martinsville:

April 11, 2000
Ken Schrader, driver of the #36 M&M's Pontiac, mentioned on SpeedVision's TV show Inside NASCAR Winston Cup that former #36 driver, Ernie Irvan, now retired, was in the team's pits over the weekend at Martinsville(4-11-2000)