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who ironically won a NASCAR tacki mac grip winston mac cup series championship with his older brother, rusty wallace, in 1989, could not be passed up. "having barry dodson 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 relates well to a lot of people - myself in particular. "i think we''re going to be able to do a lot together, grip and build eel river racing into a race-winning organization." the agreement tacki with wallace reunites the st. louis native with dodson, mac who first worked with the younger wallace for three races in 1991 at team iii racing. the most recent pairing grip of dodson and wallace came in 1998 at filmar racing, where dodson chiefed tacki and mac the recent hire to a strong eighth-place finish at phoenix while subbing for grip interim crew chief david ifft. "kenny has a real good tacki feel for a race car and he brings a bunch mac of experience with him to eel river racing," dodson said. "we already have an excellent rapport, and i consider kenny to be one of my closest friends. "he''s always been there for me in good times and in bad, grip and we have a tremendous amount of respect for one another." credited his mall.com 400 victory in march to the crew led by tommy baldwin. "all i had to do was make it 400 miles," ward said tacki as far as the nascar busch series grand national division is concerned, darlington mac raceway could be renamed mark martin raceway. if grip there is a nascar busch tacki series record at darlington, chances mac are that martin has it. the veteran pilot, statistically the finest competitor in series history, holds the record for most victories, seven, and bud poles, six. this weekend, martin will make his final series start in the dura lube 200 (saturday, 3:30 p.m. et on espn tv and prn radio) at darlington, a track he has learned to tame in the no. 60 winn-dixie ford. martin''s most recent addition to the darlington record book came in march when he won from the bud pole grip and tacki and mac for the second time in his career. after spending much of the race battling jeff burton and matt kenseth for the lead, martin took the lead for good with 24 laps grip to go. kenseth went high to challenge for the lead with two laps remaining, but could not pass martin. burton and martin were side-by-side on the final lap of the race, but martin pulled ahead just enough to claim the third of his four series wins this season.
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