This weekend, Kenny Wallace, a NASCAR mainstay on and off the track, will reach a milestone only one other person has achieved – and, possibly, no one will ever accomplish again: 500 NASCAR Nationwide Series starts.
And, coincidentally, he’ll do it at his brother Rusty Wallace’s track – Iowa Speedway.
Wallace’s storied career started with an 11th-place finish at Martinsville in 1988 driving for Dale Earnhardt and 22 years later is enjoying one of the most successful seasons of his career. Wallace is a nine-time NASCAR Nationwide race-winner and has nine poles, 64 top fives and 162 top-10 finishes. Overall in his NASCAR national series career, he’s made 854 combined starts. He joins Jason Keller as part of the 500-start club in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
“I’m really honored to make my 500th start in the NASCAR Nationwide Series,” Kenny Wallace said. “When I was a kid growing up in St. Louis, I dreamed of racing in NASCAR. But to make 855 combined starts in this great sport, including NASCAR Sprint Cup and NASCAR Camping World Trucks, I am forever thankful to all the teams that hired me and to all the fans who have supported me. But without my brother Rusty, I would have never made it to this point.”
Wallace is off to one of the best starts of his series career in his first season with RAB Racing. He posted his third top-10 finish of the season last Saturday at Dover and comes to Iowa ranked seventh in the driver standings 62 points behind series standings leader Elliott Sadler. His Driver Rating is 77.9 and Average Running Position is 16.4.
The series has competed twice at Iowa Speedway, Wallace has made both series starts, and his average finish is 14.0.
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