Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Overachieving, Sponsor Search & Waiting on Rusty
Texas was a heartfelt race because we had such a great sponsor on the car. It was the Chloe Duyck Memorial Fund, which is for infant heart disease.
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Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Survival Mode, Winning on Dirt & the “Tire Spot”
Bristol was a fun race because we had a really good sponsor, Hot Rod Grills. A lot of people had fun with it, including Dale Junior – he bought dome grills. It looks like a real motor. You open it up and it’s a grill. The pipes on the motor are where the smoke comes …
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Searching for Sponsors & Home at Last
I feel like we went to Daytona on a wing and a prayer. A week before the race we didn’t even have a sponsor. But we got lucky and got a little bit of money from Blue Ox hitches and towing equipment. We went down there with no money. We practiced four laps for the …
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Getting Dirty Feeds the Soul!
Early in my career, back in the late 1970s, I would come down to Daytona with my family for about five or six days. It wasn’t until later in my career that I’ve come down a full seven or eight days before everyone gets here. We got here on Jan. 31. This year I took …
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Daytona, After All These Years
The offseason was good. We had a great time. We went on our fan club cruise – that was a lot of fun. After the cruise, we came back and went to St. Louis for a couple of weeks for Christmas… then, you end up hitting the reset button. It’s kind of fun to spend …
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Goodbye 2009, Looking Ahead… & You Want t-o Do What With My Helmet?
Editor’s Note: SPEED analyst and full-time Nationwide Series driver Kenny Wallace does a monthly diary about his life in NASCAR, both behind the mike and behind the wheel of the No. 28 U.S. Border Patrol Chevrolet for Jay Robinson. This edition is his final entry for 2009. The last couple of races of the year …
Nationwide Series Breakdown: 2009 Able Body Labor 200 at Phoenix
With Kyle Busch holding a commanding lead coming into the final races of the season, Carl Edwards drove at Phoenix like he still had a shot.
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Good Races, Bad Races & Writer’s Cramp
Every time we got to Kansas, it seems like it’s the end of the year – it’s September, it’s starting to get cold. It’s only about four hours from my house in St. Louis, so it’s kind of got a home feel to me. This year, I elected not to run my dirt car out …
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Making It Better on Track & the Time of Our Lives off Track
Well, Atlanta marked one of the first races without my crew chief, Chris Rice. I went down there with an open mind and ready to go. We had a lot of problems. The car was bottoming out really badly. The car was hitting the left-side jack post, hitting the cross-member. We never did get going. …
Holding a Pretty Wheel: Is There Loyalty Left in NASCAR?
There is a trend I’ve noticed in racing lately and I don’t like it. It seems like everywhere you turn, a team is firing a driver for nothing he caused, a fan is picking a new favorite when old number one isn’t winning so much, a sponsor is dropping a prospect for a big name …
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Birthdays, the Fans & 800 NASCAR Races Down the Road
Watkins Glen was the first road race of the year. I always get excited about road courses – I love running them. Our team does the best we can. We don’t go and test, it’s just not in the budget, so I really have to call on my road-racing skills from my early Cup days. …
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Hometown Blues, Some Great Runs & Some Amazing Fans
We had a really rough time in Chicago. From the time we arrived there all the way through practice, we’d just bottom out, destroying our car. That was very strange because we’re usually pretty successful at getting the car up off the ground. We just had a tough time there from the get-go. They dropped …