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Then & Now

NASCAR.COM pays tribute to two outgoing vets
and welcomes two rookies to the Cup fold.

Each week will preview one year in the career of the retiring drivers,
as well as a pop-culture look at what's going on in the world today.
Mark Martin

Mark Martin

Rusty Wallace

Rusty Wallace

Mark Martin Mark Martin and Rusty Wallace both have celebrated in Victory Lane at the annual all-star race.

Martin won the 1998 event, while Wallace claimed the title in 1989 -- his Cup championship season.

Martin's improbable victory came after Jeff Gordon ran out of gas on the final lap.

Fourteen drivers have won the all-star race, and Wallace is one of six Cup champs to have turned the trick. The last one was Gordon, in 2001.

Kyle Busch

Kyle Busch

Travis Kvapil

Travis Kvapil

Kyle Busch and Travis Kvapil will make their first attempt to qualify for the All-Star Challenge in the Nextel Open.

Ryan Newman, in 2002, was the last driver to win the all-star race in his first attempt.

All-Star facts & figures:

• Most Wins -- 3, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt
• Multiple wins -- Earnhardt (3), Gordon (3), D. Allison (2), T. Labonte (2)
• Back-to-back wins -- D. Allison (1991-92)
• Brothers who've won -- The Waltrips
• Father-Son winners -- The Earnhardts

Also in 1998 ...

  • News
  • Oct. 29 -- Space shuttle Discovery blasts off with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
  • Entertainment
  • April 9 -- The Price is Right airs its 5,000th episode on CBS, which renames Stage 33 at Los Angeles' Television City the Bob Barker Studio.
  • Sports
  • Sept. 8 - Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' 1961 record of 61 home runs in a single season.
  • Deaths
  • Broadcaster Harry Caray ... singer Frank Sinatra ... cowboy actor/singer Roy Rogers

Also in 2005 ...

  • News
  • May 16 -- The Kuwaiti parliament votes to give women the right to vote and to run for office -- if they observe Islamic laws.
  • Entertainment
  • May 18 -- Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith opens, the last episode in the most profitable movie series ever.
  • Sports
  • May 13 - Tiger Woods fails to make the cut at the Byron Nelson Championship, ending his streak at 142 consecutive tournaments.
  • Still to come in 2005 ...
  • Nov. 18 -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire to be released in the U.S. and England.
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