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He speaks with the confidence of a competitor who has regained the winning formula he had when he took the series title in 1989, and dominated in 1993-94. Wallace broke a 32-race losing streak pro hormone with a victory in bristol in march, and has been among the cars to beat in virtually each race since. the 44-year-old driver from st. louis is trying for victory no. 54, which would tie him with lee petty for seventh place on the nascar career list. picks in that quest, wallace will rely on the basics. "we just have to massage that chassis, conserve the tires and stay out of trouble," he said. "i''m really looking forward to it."

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 as far as the nascar busch series grand national division is concerned, darlington raceway could be renamed mark martin raceway. if there is a nascar busch series record at darlington, chances 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 for the second time in his career. after pro hormone spending much of the race battling jeff burton and matt kenseth for the lead, martin took the lead for good with 24 laps 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 picks series wins this season.

in 1986 he won the american speed 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 pro driver awards in the nascar busch series. since becoming a full-time picks nascar winston cup series regular in 1996, wallace has scored two bud poles and accumulated three top-5 pro 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 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 our team is big feather in our cap. he''s going to be a key picks partner in our program, and we''re looking to do great things together."

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