Scott Pruett News

Wells 2000 Plans? UPDATE:

Wells 2000 Plans? UPDATE:

April 27, 2000
Cal Wells, who is a rookie owner in the NASCAR ranks, is not ready to commit to a pair of Winston Cup teams for 2001 and plans to have it all sorted out by October. Wells fields a Cup(#32 Tide team with Scott Pruett) and Busch team(#97 McDonald's with Anthony Lazarro

California Testing UPDATE 2:

California Testing UPDATE 2:

April 21, 2000
#75-Wally Dallenbach is at the California Speedway testing this week(Wally Dallenbach Site)(4-19-2000) UPDATE: #32-Scott Pruett and BGN driver #97-Anthony Lazarro are also testing. Heard that Dallenbach ran a fast lap of 183.908mph(4-20-2000) UPDATE 2: #4-Bobby Hamilton

Bad Parts:

Bad Parts:

April 17, 2000
The NASCAR Winston Cup hauler has a table that holds all of the items that are confiscated each week-end. Normally it's big enough to hold all the illegal items taken from the various teams. This week, at Talladega, the table is overflowing. The following is a partial

Rookies do Good:

Rookies do Good:

April 15, 2000
Six of the Rookie of The Year candidates made the field in 1st round qualifying: #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr.(6th), #32-Scott Pruett(15th), #92-Dave Blaney(16th), #27-Mike Bliss(18th), #9-Stacy Compton(22nd) and #90-Ed Berrier(23rd). Only #17-Matt Kenseth failed to qualify

Some Qualifying Notes:

Some Qualifying Notes:

April 7, 2000
#42-Kenny Irwin crashed in practice and had to go to a backup car. #32-Scott Pruett has engine problems in practice and changed an engine before qualifying. Geoffrey Bodine is at Martinsville this week, he got the cast off his wrist and plans to test at Richmond Apr

Musgrave Info correction:

Musgrave Info correction:

April 4, 2000
The Ted Musgrave site is reporting that they- "are hoping for an announcement within the next two weeks" on Musgraves plans for the future. Also of note, Musgrave has not worked with the #32 PPI Racing team and driver Scott Pruett since he spotted for them at Daytona

Lap Leaders:

Lap Leaders:

April 2, 2000
#32-Scott Pruett led his first Winston Cup laps at Texas. #5-Terry Labonte, #26-Jimmy Spencer, #33-Joe Nemechek and #42-Kenny Irwin all led their first laps in 2000. #4 drivers now have led a lap in 2000. To see who has led laps and who leads in the bonus points, see

Martinsville Testing:

Martinsville Testing:

March 28, 2000
Testing today, Tuesday, March 28, 2000, at Martinsville Speedway for the Goodys Body Pain 500 on Sunday, April 9. Testing are: #8-Dale Earnhardt, Jr., #17-Matt Kenseth; #10-Johnny Benson; #32-Scott Pruett; #93-Dave Blaney. Earnhardt, Jr., Kenseth, Pruett and Blaney

Bristol Testing:

Bristol Testing:

March 14, 2000
#32 Scott Pruett, rookie of the year candidate in the Cup series tested at Bristol on Monday and will again on Tuesday(Bristol Herald Courier) AND #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr., #99-Jeff Burton, #2-Rusty Wallace, #32-Scott Pruett and BGN drivers, #97-Anthony Lazzaro and #18

Darlington Test UPDATE:

Darlington Test UPDATE:

March 8, 2000
The following drivers/teams will test at Darlington on Tuesday, March 7th: #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr., #9-Stacy Compton, #20-Tony Stewart, #18-Bobby Labonte, #1-Steve Park and #32-Scott Pruett and BGN drivers #18-Jason Leffler, #96-Gus Wasson, #90-Mike Stefanik and #46-

AMS Testing UPDATE 2 Testing Page:

AMS Testing UPDATE 2 Testing Page:

March 1, 2000
haven't found much information on this yet, but at least two Cup teams tested at Atlanta on Monday, #66-Darrell Waltrip and #91-Todd Bodine(2-29-2000) -- UPDATE: RPM2Nite reported speeds: #9-Stacy Compton 189.383mph; #66-Darrell Waltrip 185.175 and #91-Todd Bodine

Bad Parts:

Bad Parts:

February 16, 2000
Several Cup teams had unapproved parts confiscated by NASCAR in recent days. The most common parts taken were springs, which were taken from the cars of #55-Kenny Wallace, #31-Mike Skinner, #41-Rick Mast (two), #4-Bobby Hamilton (two), #27-Jeff Fuller, #42-Kenny Irwin

Musgrave:

Musgrave:

February 16, 2000
Per the Ted Musgrave Official Site: "Ted is in Daytona working with Scott Pruett in both CUP and BGN. They have not finalized their CUP deal but have meetings with the sponsor this weekend at Daytona. When the deal is done it will be around for at LEAST three more

Babies:

Babies:

February 11, 2000
two ROTY candidates have recent family additions: Mike Bliss wife Sue gave birth to a 6-pound, 2-ounce girl, Brittney Taylor on Feb. 9, the couples first child. And Cameron Scott Pruett was born on Monday to Scott and Judy Pruett. The couples third child(Gaston Gazette

Computers and PPI:

Computers and PPI:

January 24, 2000
#32 Tide Ford owner, Cal Wells, sent his team to Daytona with a half-dozen computers to help record real-time measurements as rookie Scott Pruett tested at Daytona last Thursday and Friday. The data acquisition systems were collecting information such as water and