Kenny Wallace
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Drive the Hell Out of the Car – But Don't Wreck It!
October 19, 2020 June 26, 2008 by Amy Henderson
My Jay Robinson Racing team continues to find our way. This is a new situation for me to try to make our team better. We went to Nashville and we were competitive to where we were able to finish 16th, on the lead lap which was a feather in our cap. We're pointed in the right direction. That was a good run for us. Our team was happy–I didn't think I would ever be happy with a 16th-place finish, but I thought it was good for our team.
After Nashville, we went to Kentucky and had a fuel pump break at the drop of the green flag-the very first lap. That was disappointing because the goal on our team is to finish every race in the top 20. When I do that–finish in the top 20–that really makes us feel like we're headed in the right direction. But life goes on there and you move on.
Categories Amy Henderson, Kenny Wallace Driver Diary, Xfinity Tags Dale Earnhardt, Kenny Wallace
Nationwide Series Breakdown: 2008 Meijer 300 at Kentucky
November 10, 2021 June 15, 2008 by Bryan Davis Keith
Joey Logano, after scoring his second consecutive pole award, scored his first career Nationwide Series win in convincing fashion, leading five times for 76 laps, including the final 54 of the Meijer 300.
Categories Bryan Davis Keith, Xfinity, Xfinity Breakdown Tags Bobby Hamilton Jr., Bryan Clauson, Chase Miller, Jason Keller, Jeremy Clements, Joey Logano, Kenny Wallace, Kyle Busch, Marcos Ambrose
Nationwide Series Breakdown: 2008 Heluva Good! 200 at Dover
November 9, 2021 June 2, 2008 by Bryan Davis Keith
I might as well write a template for the Nationwide Series Breakdown. Saturday, Joe Gibbs Racing dominated the NASCAR Nationwide Series X (Heluva Good! 200). Driver X (Denny Hamlin) smoked the field, leading X (131) of X laps (200). Joe Gibbs Racing has now won X (nine) of X (14) races in the Nationwide Series this season.
Categories Bryan Davis Keith, Xfinity, Xfinity Breakdown Tags Brad Coleman, David Stremme, Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Jason Leffler, Joey Logano, Kenny Wallace, Landon Cassill, Mike Wallace
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Racing, Making Gains & Oh, Hail!
October 10, 2020 May 29, 2008 by Amy Henderson
Richmond was a big disappointment for me. We went there with high hopes. We had leased a Hendrick motor and we had qualified the best we qualified this year, in 21st. I think that was a big improvement for our Jay Robinson Racing team. When we started the race we were way, way too tight. I have no idea how the car got so tight. It was tight in practice; I just don't think we got it quite as good as we needed to. Then we had a drive shaft that broke. I don't know what happened, but the weights flew off it. We had to go behind the wall because it was vibrating so badly. We got back out and actually got the car freed up and running a lot better. Still, it was a huge disappointment because we had a lot of high hopes.
Categories Amy Henderson, Kenny Wallace Driver Diary, Xfinity Tags Kenny Wallace
Side By Side: Is Fan Voting For The All-Star Race Fair?
October 8, 2020 May 14, 2008 by Frontstretch Staff
Today's Question: The past few years in the All-Star Race, the series has used a fan vote to select one driver not previously eligible to participate in the main event. Do you think that's a fair way to do it, or should each driver qualify based on his or her own merit?
Categories Cup Series, Doug Turnbull, Phil Allaway, Side by Side Tags Kenny Wallace, Kyle Petty
Did You Notice? The Unbreakable Car, the Unbearable All-Star Rules & Sophomore Success
October 8, 2020 May 13, 2008 by Tom Bowles
Did You Notice? The degree to which the Car of Tomorrow's durability stepped it up a notch on Saturday night? There's no questioning the new car has better durability, but the amount of vehicles who walked away from serious problems with the wall – especially turn 2 – was unprecedented for the Lady in Black. Kyle Busch was the biggest offender of the CoT luck bank at Darlington, slamming the fence so many times you'd think his car would have been mincemeat by sometime around lap 150. But Busch held on, and so did several others as the DNF total for Darlington stood at just two when the race was over; and neither one of those problems was due to a crash.
Categories Did You Notice?, Cup Series, Tom Bowles Tags Bill Elliott, Kenny Wallace, Kyle Busch
Critiquing NASCAR TV: Richmond Race Coverage Conveys Short-Track Drama Well
October 6, 2020 May 5, 2008 by Frontstretch Staff
If you're a television executive on FOX or ESPN, the last two weeks of NASCAR racing have bound to have left you drooling. At Talladega, the pack of cars did not get strung out or single file, like it did in the fall race there; that caused the close racing and crazy wrecks fans expect at that facility. In fact, there were two "Big Ones" in the Cup race to go along with one "really Big One" in the Nationwide Series race. Plus, the ratings golden boy, Dale Earnhardt Jr., stayed in contention until the end of the Cup event, coming close to the win at his best track.
Categories Cup Series, Couch Potato Tuesday, Xfinity Tags Alex Brundle, Bobby Labonte, Jimmy Spencer, Kenny Wallace, Martin Truex Jr.
Frontstretch NASCAR Power Rankings: Top 15 Drivers Still Winless in NASCAR
October 6, 2020 April 23, 2008 by Mike Neff
With an off week in the schedule, the Frontstretch staffers decided to take a second look at a series of drivers looking for that lucky break. Our writers voted in the top 15 drivers who have never won a Sprint Cup race in their careers; and while these men might have been special in other forms of stock car racing, they were never special enough to make it to Victory Lane at the highest level (at least, not yet).
Categories Cup Series, Bryan Davis Keith, Mike Neff, Power Rankings, Tom Bowles, Tony Lumbis Tags Coo Coo Marlin, Dave Blaney, David Stremme, Dick Trickle, Hut Stricklin, JD McDuffie, Jeff Green, Joe Ruttman, Kenny Wallace, Mike Bliss, Mike Skinner, Mike Wallace, Richard Childress, Rick Mast, Ted Musgrave, Tony Raines
Nationwide Series Breakdown: 2008 Corona Mexico 200 at Mexico City
November 9, 2021 April 21, 2008 by Bryan Davis Keith
Scott Pruett held off Kyle Busch for a while, but used up his tires in the process, leaving Busch to score his third consecutive Nationwide Series win in the Corona Mexico 200, his first NASCAR win on a road course.
Categories Bryan Davis Keith, Xfinity, Xfinity Breakdown Tags Adrian Fernandez, Boris Said, Kenny Wallace, Kyle Busch, Marcos Ambrose, Mike Bliss, Scott Pruett, Scott Wimmer, Stanton Barrett
Driven to the Past: Kenny Wallace
September 29, 2020 April 10, 2008 by John Potts
We aren't reaching too far back this time, but I did promise last week, in a response to Kenny Wallace's driver diary, that I would tell the story about how I broke a couple of ribs at Bristol back in 2002 and it was really Kenny's fault.
Let me preface this by saying I love Kenny, to a fault. He's been one of my favorite people since we met, way back when he was a fixture on his brother's pit crew in ASA. Right away I knew this kid was one of a kind. The fact that he has persevered no matter how many times the breaks didn't go his way has endeared him even more to me. If anybody wants to hear the whole story, read "Inside Herman's World," written by Kenny with Joyce Standridge.
At the time this incident happened, I was helping to run I-75 Speedway at Mt. Vernon, Ky. and Corbin Speedway. The general manager, an Illinois native named Mike Duenser, called me one day and asked if I knew that the All-Pro (I think they still called them All-Pro that year) cars were running at Bristol in a mid-week event. This was before the annual August race.
Categories John Potts, Driven to the Past, Short Tracks Tags Kenny Wallace
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