Nationwide Series Breakdown: 2010 Great Clips 300 at Atlanta
For all the tire strategy that made Saturday night’s Great Clips 300 both interesting and confusing, it didn’t pave the way to victory lane at Atlanta.
Kenny Wallace
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Short Tracks, Road Courses & CNN
Michigan was a joke. That was embarrassing as all get out. Because I only have one car, I was not allowed to practice at all. No practice. I think I had four laps total on the track, maybe five… a total of five laps on the track before qualifying. I got lapped on lap 18 …
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Freak Things, Good Times & Change on the Horizon
ORP was a long day for us. We could never get the car right. That was my favorite car at ORP and I really thought we were going to be competitive because you don’t need a lot of horsepower; you really need to handle good. But we never could get it to handle right. I …
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: 1st Time With a New Car & the Boys of Summer
Road America was a beautiful, beautiful racetrack. It was very well groomed, all the grass was cut and there was standing room only. I couldn’t believe how many people were all around that four-mile road course! I had never raced a 4-mile road course and it was funny, because it took forever to get around. …
Mirror Driving: Bumper Cars or Exciting Endings?, NASCAR Chase Choices & Judging Dale
NASCAR is considering changes to the Chase system, which might possibly include a larger Chase field, eliminations and/or a road course. Are changes needed?
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Getting Dirty in the Summer
Here we are in June already. So far this month, we raced at Nashville and Kentucky. At Nashville, it was cool because we had the same sponsor as the race on the car. Federated Auto Parts sponsored the race and our team. There were a lot of folks there from Federated and it was a …
What’s Vexing Vito: Super Subs – Casey Mears Has Final Chance to Join Others in Reviving NASCAR Career
ESPN’s David Newton reported that Brian Vickers will be out of the No. 83 Red Bull Toyota for at least three months, with Casey Mears resuming driving duties.
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.
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 …