Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Numbergate 1995

Darrell Waltrip returned to the Nashville Speedway for the 1995 Opryland 320. This was the first Busch Grand National race under Bob Harmon's regime. Waltrip was driving a car prepared by Bob Labonte racing, and a teammate to Terry Labonte and David Green.

Waltrip practiced and qualifyed using his Winston Cup number, 17.

However, Robbie Reiser was also using #17, and was ranked higher in points, so he was allowed to keep the number. Waltrip had to change his to #11. Of course, Waltrip had won a race or two with that number as well.

Waltrip went on to win the pole (his last in the Busch Series) and finish 8th, Reiser finished 9th for his best career result, Labonte finished 3rd, and Green won the race. Complete rasults can be found here.

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