In 1986 he won the American Speed Association Rookie of the Year title baseball odds 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 improve upon those numbers with 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 vegas winston cup -- and that''s win races." "between barry dodson, my dad and myself, 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 odds our team is big feather baseball odds in our cap. he''s going to be a key partner in our program, and we''re looking to do great things together."

so vegas is burton who, like gordon, will be seeking odds his third win of the season. burton knows how tough the track can be. "you don''t expect to come here and win," he said. "but we expect baseball to come to darlington and run well." gordon, a five-time darlington winner, is in a run vegas of bad luck that includes being taken out of contention in two of the last three races because of crashes he didn''t cause. he hopes for good weather sunday, which would enable him to play odds out the winning pit strategy of 1995-98. rain prevented that last year. "we took a chance and pitted for tires and gas during the second-to-last caution, hoping it would put us in position to win," the three-time series champion said. "but we were also hoping the rain would hold off. "unfortunately for us, it didn''t." also a prime contender is series champion dale jarrett, a two-time darlington winner who is second to points leader bobby labonte despite no victories since the season-opening daytona 500. top-5 fixture tony stewart, second last saturday night in bristol and ward burton also are threats. burton won at darlington in march. baseball ward, second to jeff last year in the only 1-2 southern 500 finish by brothers,

had those ambitions come to fruition, mcclure feels the state of his race team may be a bit different. "i may have had the problems, but i think i could have got things going in the right direction a lot quicker (with a second team) because with more testing and input from two different drivers and race teams, i think we could have got through this a lot quicker," mcclure said. hamilton currently ranks 30th in the standings. he''s never finished worse that 23rd in any full season in his career. it''s time to turn things around, and the change is on, starting this weekend at darlington raceway, where hamilton has three consecutive seventh-place finishes. "everybody loves darlington. i think it''s one of our favorite race tracks," mcclure said. "we were lucky enough to win a race there with sterling, i think back in ''95. we''re looking forward to it, and i think we''re going to be ready for it." hamilton added, "just staying off the fence (is the key to vegas success at darlington), and that''s hard to do there. several guys have won that race and have had the recognized darlington stripe. odds it depends baseball on who hits it the lightest. "every lap you go around vegas there there''s one groove that works and then two laps later that groove doesn''t work any more. we''ve been pretty fortunate the last odds three or four races. we''ve been able to run there and not get in any crashes and not even get a stripe on the car. all that means is we''re way overdue for it." after the struggles they''ve faced the past few seasons, hamilton and the morgan-mcclure contingent are well overdue.

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