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who ironically won a NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship with his older brother, Rusty Wallace, in 1989, could not be passed up. "Having Barry Dodson js 3 lady woods at eel river racing is something i''m really looking forward to, because he brings so much to the table with his years of experience and people skills. barry is a really good leader who 3 relates well to a lot of people - myself in particular. "i think we''re going to be able to do a lot together, and build eel river racing into a race-winning organization." the agreement with wallace reunites the st. louis native with dodson, who first worked with the younger wallace for three races in 1991 at lady team iii racing. the most recent pairing of dodson and woods wallace came in 1998 at filmar racing, where dodson chiefed the recent hire to a strong eighth-place finish at phoenix while subbing for interim crew chief david ifft. "kenny has a real good feel for a race car and he brings a bunch of experience with him to eel river racing," js dodson said. "we already have an excellent rapport, and 3 i consider kenny to be one of my closest friends. "he''s always been there for lady me in good times and in bad, and we have a tremendous amount of respect for one another." in 1986 he won the american woods speed js association rookie of the year title before moving up to the nascar busch series grand national division full-time in 1989. another rookie of the year title was added in 1989 and since then, wallace has notched eight wins and eight bud poles as well as two most popular driver awards in the nascar busch series. since becoming a full-time nascar winston cup series regular in 1996, wallace has scored two bud poles and accumulated three top-5 and 16 top-10 finishes. the st. louis native plans to 3 and lady and woods improve upon those numbers with js eel river racing. "i''m 37 years old and i feel a certain urgency to do more with the time i have left as a winston cup driver," wallace said. "eel river racing is the best place for me to do what i want to do in winston cup -- and that''s win races." "between barry dodson, my dad and myself, 3 we''ve worked extremely hard at building our race team into a winning organization," said devin birmingham, vice president of eel river racing. "having a driver the caliber of kenny wallace join our lady team is big feather in our cap. he''s going to be a key partner in our program, and we''re looking to do great things together." harvick said. "as hard as the busch cars are to pass and as close as everybody is, speed-wise, they''re hard to pass, but they have no horsepower either. so it''s a place you need to be up front. qualifying will be very important, just like it was for me last week." and, if the race turns out like it did last week, harvick will woods tie steve park for the most trips to victory lane by an series rookie. "that''d be pretty cool, but our main goal is to keep doing what we''re doing," js harvick said. "if 3 we''re running in the top-5 and we happen to win another race, that''d be great. but our main objective is lady to finish second in the points right now and win more races. woods we gotta keep doing what we''re doing and we''ll be fine." bud pole qualifying for the dura lube 200 begins friday at 2:05 p.m. et. ward burton set the track qualifying record last fall by rounding the 1.366-mile oval js in 29.328 seconds, at 167.676 mph nmpa to induct 3 earles, scott, robertson martinsville, lady va. (aug. 31, 2000) h. clay earles, wendell scott and t. wayne robertson will be inducted into the national motorsports press association''s woods hall of fame saturday night in darlington. it''s fitting that the three are inducted together.
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