NASCAR Jimmy Spencer

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Throwback Thursday – Spencer Nips Irvan at the Line for First Cup Win

Photo - Racing One/Getty Images
Photo – Racing One/Getty Images

 

The first half of the 1994 Winston Cup season the black cars dominated.  Rusty Wallace, Dale Earnhardt and Ernie Irvan together had 11 wins in the season’s first 14 races.

Wallace was on a three-race winning streak heading into the Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway.  The Missouri driver’s luck at the track has been short of disastrous. Continue reading

Throwback Thursday – Kurt Busch Goes Back-to-Back at Bristol

Photo - Jayski
Photo – Jayski

Since a Sprint Cup race will be on my birthday this season, I decided to re-visit the last time the Cup Series ran a race on my birthday, which was March 23, 2003.

The tour made its first of two dates at Bristol Motor Speedway.  Kurt Busch, then with Roush Racing headed into the race as the defending winner.

His win in 2002 was no easy task, as he had to muscle his way around Jimmy Spencer.  Busch put the bump-and-run on Spencer and pulled away to record his first Cup win of his career.  It started a rivalry between the two, which would last until late in the 2003 season. Continue reading