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Earles, active in the track until the end, died Nov. 16, 1999. "My grandfather personal would have especially appreciated being voted into the NMPA Hall of Fame," Campbell said. "He loved the media and knew how important they are to pitcher the success of the sport." Scott, who died in 1990, began racing at the Danville Fairgrounds Speedway winning 128 personal races in many divisions and in 1959 won the Virginia State Sportsman Championship. In 1961, he fielded a car in the NASCAR Grand National circuit, later renamed the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. On Dec. 1, 1963 he won his only Grand National race, a 100-mile event on a half-mile track in Jacksonville, Fla. He is the only African-American driver to ever pitcher and personal win a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race. Much of NASCAR stock car racing''s current popularity can be traced to Robertson. Robertson moved up the ranks to become President of Sports Marketing Enterprises. Many of racing''s unique programs, such as the Winston Million and the No Bull Five were Robertson''s innovations. After his death in a boating pitcher accident in 1998, the Winston Cup Preview, which he created, was quite appropriately personal re-named the T. Wayne Robertson Winston Cup Preview in his honor. Had those ambitions come to fruition, McClure feels the state of his race team may be a bit different. "I may have had the problems, but I think I could have got things going pitcher in personal the right direction a lot quicker (with a second team) because pitcher with more testing and input personal from two different drivers and race teams, I think we could have got through this pitcher a lot quicker," McClure said. Hamilton currently ranks 30th in the standings. He''s never finished worse that 23rd personal in any full season in his career. It''s time to turn things around, and the pitcher change is on, starting this weekend at personal Darlington Raceway, where Hamilton has three consecutive seventh-place finishes. "Everybody loves Darlington. I think it''s one of our favorite race tracks," McClure pitcher said. "We were lucky enough to win a race there with Sterling, I think back in ''95. We''re looking forward to it, and I think we''re going to be ready for it." Hamilton added, "Just staying off the fence (is the key to success at Darlington), and that''s hard to do there. Several guys have won that race and have had the recognized Darlington stripe. It depends on who hits it the lightest. "Every lap you go around there there''s one groove that works and then two laps later that groove doesn''t work any more. We''ve been pretty fortunate the last three or four races. We''ve been able to run there and not get in any crashes and not even get a stripe on the car. All that means is we''re way overdue for it." After the struggles personal they''ve faced the past few seasons, Hamilton and the Morgan-McClure contingent are well overdue. He speaks with the confidence pitcher of a competitor who has regained the winning formula he had when he took the series title in 1989, and dominated in 1993-94. Wallace broke a 32-race losing streak with a victory in Bristol in March, and has been among the cars to beat in virtually personal each race since. The 44-year-old driver from St. Louis is trying for victory No. 54, which would tie him with Lee Petty for seventh place on the pitcher NASCAR career list. In that quest, Wallace will rely on the basics. "We just have to massage that chassis, conserve the tires and stay out of trouble," he said. "I''m really looking forward to it."
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