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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 and Rusty Wallace are two of 13 drivers who have started all 11 races at Indy since NASCAR held its first Cup race at the Brickyard on Aug. 6, 1994.

Martin started 10th in the inaugural Brickyard 400 -- one of five top-10 starts for him -- and finished 35th, 20 laps down. His only other finish off the lead lap was in 2000, when a crash ended his day after only 15 laps.

Wallace has been one of the most consistent drivers at Indy. He has 10 top-15 finishes, including runner-up showings three times (1995, 2000 and 2002).

Martin has four top-fives and six top-10s with an average finish of 16.6 and one DNF.

Wallace has five top-fives and nine top-10s with an average finish of 8.9 and one DNF.

Kyle Busch

Kyle Busch

Travis Kvapil

Travis Kvapil

Kyle Busch and Travis Kvapil will make their first Cup starts at Indianapolis on Sunday, but each has enjoyed success at neighboring IRP.

Busch has two Busch Series starts at IRP and is defending champ of the Kroger 200.

He also has two Truck Series starts at IRP, and finished ninth in 2001.

Kvapil has four Truck Series starts at IRP and has been everywhere in the top five -- except in Victory Lane. He was fourth in last year's Power Stroke Diesel 200, and finished as the runner-up in 2003.

Busch leads the rookie of the year standings by 49 points over Kvapil. Through 20 races, Busch has five top-five finishes and seven top-10s. Kvapil has only one top-10.

Also in 1994 ...

  • News
  • March 23 -- "Shock jock" Howard Stern formally announces his candidacy for the New York governorship under the Libertarian Party ticket. He dropped out of the race before the election.
  • Entertainment
  • Nov. 30 -- Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur survives five bullets in an apparent robbery attempt outside a New York music studio.
  • Sports
  • Jan. 6 -- Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding. Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy on March and is fined $100,000 and banned from the sport.
  • Deaths
  • Actor Telly Savalas ... Actress/singer Dinah Shore... U.S. president Richard Nixon ... First Lady Jackie Kennedy ... athlete Wilma Rudolph

Also in 2005 ...

  • News
  • Aug. 2 -- Susan Torres, a cancer-ravaged woman robbed of consciousness by a stroke, gives birth after being kept on life support for three months to give her fetus extra time to develop.
  • Entertainment
  • July 29 -- The hosts of 106 & Park -- A.J. and Free -- are out after five years with BET's most popular series.
  • Sports
  • Aug. 1 - Nearly five months after telling a congressional panel that he "never used steroids," Orioles slugger Rafael Palmiero becomes baseball's highest-profile player to be suspended 10 days for using steroids.
  • Still to come in 2005 ...
  • Oct. 28-29 -- BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment's first gaming festival will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center.
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