Rusty Wallace

The Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup is on ABC

October 23, 2007 -- Q&A with ESPN Analyst and 1989 NASCAR Cup Champion Rusty Wallace on Racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Memphis Motorsports Park:

Q – Atlanta Motor Speedway has produced a lot of close finishes. What is it about the track that creates such close racing?

October 21, 2007 -- The Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup continued Sunday, Oct. 21, with the Subway 500 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. Coverage of the event began at 1 p.m. ET with NASCAR Countdown. Suzy Kolber hosted NASCAR Countdown, with 1989 NASCAR champion Rusty Wallace and Brad Daugherty, a former winning team owner in the NASCAR Busch Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. NASCAR team owner Ray Evernham was a guest in the ESPN Pit Studio. Some NASCAR Countdown highlights:

On Martinsville Speedway, the smallest track in NASCAR NEXTEL Cup racing

The Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup is on ABC

October 16, 2007 -- Q&A with Rusty Wallace on racing at Martinsville Speedway:

Q - Aside from the expected beating and banging how hard is Martinsville Speedway on the car itself?

“At Martinsville Speedway you’ll see a lot of brake problems, and next is the rear-end gear. You turn so many RPMs that the rear-end gear ratio heats up real fast. It’s such a short track and you have to get up to speed real fast.

“Tempers, brakes and rear-end gears, those are the three things that can fail at Martinsville. On top of that, the fenders get beat in, the sides of the doors get beat up and tire marks end up all over the car.”

Q – How hard is the 500-lap race at Martinsville on a driver?