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who ironically won a NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship with his older brother, Rusty Wallace, in 1989, could not be passed up. "Having Barry Dodson at Eel River Racing is something I''m really looking forward to, because he brings so much to the table with his jugs machines years of experience and people skills. barry is a really good leader who relates well to a lot of people - myself in particular. "i think we''re going to be able to do a lot together, and build eel river racing into a race-winning organization." the agreement with wallace reunites the st. louis native with dodson, who first worked with machines the younger wallace for three races in 1991 at team iii racing. the most recent pairing of dodson jugs machines and wallace came in 1998 at filmar machines racing, where dodson chiefed the recent hire to a strong eighth-place finish at phoenix while subbing for interim crew chief david ifft. "kenny has a real good feel for a race car jugs and he brings a bunch of experience with him to eel river racing," dodson said. "we already have an excellent rapport, and i consider kenny machines to be one of my closest friends. "he''s always been there for me in good times and in bad, and we have a tremendous amount of respect for one another."

whose four-year run of superiority in the southern 500 ended in 1999 -- and jeff burton, who won both rain-shortened events last season on the track "too tough to tame." victory has taught them much about darlington, but wallace figures defeat also can be a valuable tutor. he finished 16th in darlington in march. "we''ve been on jugs the money almost everywhere we''ve been this year with the chassis, but if there''s an exception to that, it has to be the first darlington race," he said. "we missed it with our shock package, really missed it big time on the right rear. "we''ll get it all nailed down this time around, though."