What ever happened to ... DNQs of the '94 Brickyard? (cont'd)

Billy Standridge
Standridge was a 40-year-old Cup rookie in 1994, having made his debut earlier that season at Rockingham. His career-best was a 14th-place finish at Darlington the following year, and his Cup career ended with a 43rd-place effort in the wildfire-postponed October race at Daytona in 1998. He missed the field again at Indy in 1995.

Tim Steele
It's no wonder why three-time ARCA champ Steele was selected by Bobby Allison to drive his No. 12 Ford at Indy. The Michigan native had made the previous five Cup races in 1994, including a 33rd-place finish at Pocono, where he had won nine ARCA races (out of a total of 41 in his career). But Indy would be his last Cup attempt. Steele would go on to run seven Busch Series events in 1997 before a severe head injury sustained in a crash at Atlanta permanently changed his racing career. He came back to run half of the 1999 Truck Series schedule two years later, and won 11 more ARCA races, but aftereffects of that crash forced him to announce his retirement from racing in 2007.

Rich Woodland Jr.
The Californian was hoping to celebrate his 24th birthday by making the Brickyard 400 field in one of Butch Gilliland's team cars. He had finished 10th and 12th in the Winston West standings the two previous seasons, and had made his Cup debut with a 38th-place finish at Phoenix in 1993. His family-owned team was sponsored by the duck farm that his father and uncle owned in the San Gabriel Valley. Woodland's lone West win came at Phoenix in 1998. He drove in four Truck races in 2001 and was still active in ARCA as of 2004.

Hershel McGriff

Hershel McGriff
McGriff was trying to accomplish an unusual double, becoming the only driver to compete the inaugural NASCAR races at Darlington and Indy, 44 years apart. At 65, the long-time resident of Bridal Veil, Ore., made the grid for the 1993 Cup race at Sonoma, which remains to date his last start in NASCAR's premier series. His four previous Cup victories came in 1954. However, the 1986 Winston West champion remains an active participant behind the wheel. This summer, he ended a seven-year absence by finishing 13th in the Camping World West road-course race at Portland and hopes to make the field later at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah.

Jerry Hill
Hill, from Brandywine, Md., made eight Cup starts between 1991 and 1993, mainly at Rockingham and Dover. However, he missed making the field all three times he tried in 1994. He returned to NASCAR in 2001, running three full seasons in the Truck Series, but failed to record a top-10 finish in a total of 58 starts. He wound up 17th at Kentucky and Texas in 2001. He made a pair of Busch Series starts in 2004, running 26th at Gateway and 22nd at Daytona.

Andy Belmont
Belmont was a former Goody's Dash champion looking to break into Cup big-time. He made his Cup debut at Dover in 1989, then returned two years later with one of Pat Rissi's Fords. That partnership lasted through much of the 1992 season, as Belmont scored his career-best 28th at Pocono and finished second in rookie of the year balloting. But a full-time ride failed to materialize, and he spent the next two seasons attempting to quality his own car without success. However, Belmont found his niche in ARCA, finishing in the top 10 in points in all but two full seasons. He made two more Cup starts in 2004, then retired as a driver two years later. He currently owns Andy Belmont Racing.

H.B. Bailey
Like another more famous Houstonian who cut his racing teeth at the old Playland Park track, Bailey decided to give it one more shot at Indy. Competing in NASCAR since 1962, Bailey had run only a limited schedule, having never run more than seven races in a season. His last top-five finish came in the 1972 Southern 500, when LeeRoy Yarbrough took over as relief driver. However, Bailey made the field at Michigan and Darlington in 1993 -- at the age of 56 -- and after missing the Brickyard 400 field, brought his Pontiac out four years later in an effort to make the show at Texas Motor Speedway, but he wound up slowest of the 52 cars entered. Bailey died of heart failure in 2003.

Norm Benning
Benning started racing at the same track where his father raced, nearby Heidelberg Raceway. A graduate of Indiana University (Pa.), Benning went on to earn a commercial pilot's license. He made his Cup debut at Dover in 1989, finishing 30th. But since making only one lap at Darlington in 1993, Benning has been the epitome of "try, try again." Since 1993, Benning has attempted to qualify for a Cup race 21 times -- including seven Daytona 500s -- without success. However, Benning has recorded five top-10s in ARCA points and is currently 23rd in the 2009 Camping World Truck Series standings.

Wayne Jacks
The Las Vegas native started his racing career in 1972 and won the sportsman stock-car track title at Las Vegas International in 1988. From there, he moved into Winston West and within two years was fourth in the season standings. His lone Cup start came at Phoenix in 1993, where he finished 41st after losing an engine. He competed in seven Truck races between 1995 and 1997, and made his final West start in 2003. Now 60, he's still listed on the super late model driver roster at Las Vegas Motor Speedway's Bullring.

Doug French
French came up through the ARCA and modified ranks, making his only Cup start at Richmond in 1987, where he finished 28th after a crash. After failing to quality at Indy, the New Jersey native tried to make the field at Dover in 1994 and 1995 without success. He returned to modifieds and was operating his own team at last report. (Continued)