Rusty Wallace

Toyota's Friends
2009 Great Sports Legends Dinner to Cure Paralysis - Inside
2009 Great Sports Legends Dinner to Cure Paralysis - Inside
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2009 Great Sports Legends Dinner to Cure Paralysis - Inside
2009 Great Sports Legends Dinner to Cure Paralysis - Inside
2009 Great Sports Legends Dinner to Cure Paralysis - Inside
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico
Rusty Wallace in New Mexico

Keselowski, Edwards ready for Take 2 at Gateway

Keselowski, Edwards ready for another round at Gateway as Nationwide Series winds down. What may be the last NASCAR event at Gateway International Raceway may include some fireworks.
 

Chase switch _ Martin in

Mark Martin is back in 12th, Clint Bowyer out with 4 races until the Sprint Cup Chase. There are four races left before the Chase for the Sprint Cup title, and the road race on Sunday at Watkins Glen shuffled the standings.
 

NASCAR discouraging negative spin of sport

NASCAR president Mike Helton says organization is discouraging negative messages about sport. NASCAR president Mike Helton insists he wants drivers to feel free to express themselves.
 

Dillon wins NASCAR Trucks race in Iowa

Dillon holds off Sauter in green-white-checkered finish to win Trucks race in black No. 3. The black No. 3 Chevrolet is back in victory lane, because of a precocious rookie who finally took advantage of his considerable promise.
 

20 years later, 'Days of Thunder' still resonates

The racing wasn't realistic, but characters in 'Days of Thunder' captured NASCAR's stars. "Rubbin', son, is racin'," or so said Harry Hogge to a worldwide audience in the summer of 1990, when NASCAR was a niche, regional sport that had yet to pique much mainstream interest.
 

No excuse for skipping Hall of Fame induction

Current NASCAR drivers have no excuse for skipping Hall of Fame induction. The NASCAR Hall of Fame opened its doors with a star-studded ceremony showcasing many of its stars.
 

Shell takes Pennzoil brand to Penske Racing

Shell to leave Harvick and Childress to sponsor Penske driver Kurt Busch beginning in 2011. Several dominoes in 2011 team alignments fell into place Wednesday in a flurry of NASCAR activity triggered by Shell Oil Company's decision to transfer its sponsorship from Kevin Harvick to Kurt Busch starting next season.
 

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Toyota's powerful DC friends

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Toyota has friends in high places in Washington, but are they enough?. The lawmakers now investigating Toyota's recall include a senator who was so eager to lure the Japanese automaker to his state that he tramped along through fields as its executives scouted plant sites, and a congresswoman who owes much of her wealth to a Toyota supplier.
 

Rusty Wallace to field Toyotas next season

Rusty Wallace Racing to move from Chevrolet to Toyota in 2010. Rusty Wallace Racing is moving its Nationwide Series team from Chevrolet to Toyota next season.
 

Hamlin ready to move on after California collapse

Denny Hamlin still smarting following debacle at California. Denny Hamlin is over last week's debacle at Auto Club Speedway.
 

Keselowski wins Nationwide Series race in Iowa

Brad Keselowski passes Kyle Busch to win inaugural Nationwide Series race at Iowa Speedway. The inaugural Nationwide Series race at Iowa Speedway came down to a two-man battle between points leader Kyle Busch and top series regular Brad Keselowski.
 

NHL CLEANS UP FOR VEGAS

Ron Kantowski offers chatter you might overhear at award show, saving you $504 or so. In 1892, or thereabouts, Lord Walter Stanley purchased a decorative silver bowl, forged in Sheffield, England, by London silversmith G.R. Collis and Co., for $48.67 that would become the most famous trophy in pro sports.
 

Crew chief suspended for using racial slur

Gaughan's crew chief suspended for using slur toward Davis. The crew chief for Nationwide Series driver Brendan Gaughan was suspended indefinitely Thursday for using a racial slur about rival driver Marc Davis, who is black.
 

New Saturn boss Penske has track record of success

Racing, auto industry mogul Penske brings track record of success to Saturn. Roger Penske never made it big as a race car driver. As a businessman, however, he regularly leaves the competition in the dust.
 

Smith celebrates 50 years of racing at Lowe

Over 50 years of racing, Coca-Cola 600 grows into one of NASCAR's crown jewel events. It took Bruton Smith more than a year to build his first race track, a frustrating project filled with financing issues, weather delays and too many setbacks to count.
 

THE ELEVATOR

GOING UP
 

Facts from the Wikipedia page:

Russell William Wallace Jr.
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BornAugust 14, 1956 (1956-08-14) (age 53)
HometownFenton, Missouri
Awards1979 USAC Stock Car Rookie of the Year

1983 ASA Champion

1984 Rookie of the Year

1989 Winston Cup Champion

1989 The Winston Champion

1991 IROC champion

1998 Named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series statistics
706 races run over 1 years
Best cup position1st - 1989
First race1980 Atlanta 500 (Atlanta)
Last race2005 Ford 400 (Homestead)
First win1986 Valleydale 500 (Bristol)[1]
Last win2004 Advance Auto Parts 500 (Martinsville)
WinsTop tensPoles
5534936
NASCAR Nationwide Series statistics
42 races run over 1 years
Best NNS position32nd - 1987 (Busch)
First race1985 Goody's 300 (Daytona)
Last race2005 O'Reilly Challenge (Texas)
WinsTop tensPoles
0183
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series statistics
1 races run over 1 years
Best NCWTS position9th - 1996 (Craftsman)
First race1996 DeVilbiss Superfinish 200 (Nazareth)
Last race1996 DeVilbiss Superfinish 200 (Nazareth)
WinsTop tensPoles
010
Statistics current as of January 27, 2009.