Today in History (cont'd)

• June 30 -- 1990: Mark Martin leads only one lap, but it's the most important one in the Carolina Pride/Budweiser 200 Nationwide Series race at Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Speedway. Tommy Ellis leads the first 199 laps and finishes seventh.

• June 29 -- 2003: Jason Keller wins the GNC Lives Well 250 at Milwaukee for his 10th Nationwide Series victory. Keller, 39, who holds the record for Nationwide starts with 473, hasn't won since, a stretch of 168 starts.

• June 28 -- 1998: Road-course ace Ron Fellows wins his first of four Nationwide Series races, leading 54 of 82 laps at Watkins Glen. All four of Fellows' wins have been on road courses -- three at Watkins Glen and one at Montreal.

• June 27 -- 1959: Richard Petty finishes last for the first time in his Cup career. Transmission problems in his 1957 Oldsmobile end his day after 14 laps of a 200-lap race at quarter-mile Bowman-Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C. Petty finishes 24th. Rex White leads all 200 laps.

• June 26 -- 1963: Steve Grissom, the 1993 Nationwide Series champion, is born on this day. Grissom, who has started at least one Nationwide race for 24 consecutive seasons, has 11 wins in 309 starts. He is winless in 151 Cup races and 24 Truck races.

• June 25 -- 1994: Shawna Robinson finishes 10th in the Nationwide Series Fay's 150 at Watkins Glen for her only top-10 in 72 starts in NASCAR's top three series. Her best finish in eight Cup starts is 24th in the 2002 Daytona 500, and her best finish in three Truck Series races is 18th. She made 61 Nationwide starts in seven seasons from 1991 to 2005.

• June 24 -- 1951: Curtis Turner wins his first NASCAR race on pavement, leading 177 of 200 laps at half-mile Dayton (Ohio) Speedway. Dick Rathmann is second, and Tim Flock, who leads the other 23 laps, finishes third.

• June 23 -- 1971: Bobby Allison wins the Space City 300 at Meyer Speedway in Houston. The field is 14 cars, the last time fewer than 20 cars start a Cup race. It is the only NASCAR race on the half-mile track. Allison starts from the pole and leads 253 laps. James Hylton is second and Walter Ballard third.

• June 22 -- 1957: Bill Amick wins a scheduled 200-lap race at half-mile Capitol Speedway in Sacramento, Calif., for his only Cup victory in 48 career starts in eight seasons. Lloyd Dane finishes second and George Seeder third on the half-mile dirt track. The race was shortened to 199 laps because of a scoring error.

• June 21 -- 1959: Tom Pistone picks up his second and final Cup victory, winning the Richmond 200 at the half-mile dirt track of Atlantic Rural Fairgrounds in Richmond, Va. The only other cars on the lead lap are second-place Glen Wood and third-place Buck Baker. Both of Pistone's victories come in 1959; he closes out his career in 1968 with 130 starts.

• June 20 -- 1998: On his 40th birthday, Ron Hornaday wins at Bristol. Hornaday leads 187 of 200 laps and beats Jack Sprague by .854 seconds. Hornaday goes on to win his second Truck Series title. He wins his third in 2007.

• June 19 -- 1988: Nineteen cars take the green flag of the Nationwide Series race at Lanier Speedway in Gainesville, Ga. It is the last time fewer than 20 cars start a Nationwide race. Tommy Houston gets the win in the Big Star/Coca-Cola 200, winning by 3 seconds in front of Jimmy Hensley on the three-eighths mile track.

• June 18 -- 1950: Bill Blair becomes the first driver to win in the No. 2, in a 200-lap race on the half-mile dirt track at Vernon (N.Y.) Fairgrounds. The No. 2 has been to Victory Lane 63 times and has made the third-most Cup starts (1,540). The No. 43 is first (1,714), followed by the No. 11 (1,636). Dale Earnhardt won the first of his seven Cup championships in the No. 2 in 1980.

• June 17 -- 2000: Camping World Truck Series rookie Kurt Busch suffers his only DNF of the season when he crashes and finishes 29th in the Kroger 250 at Kentucky Speedway. Busch goes on to win four races and four poles and finish second in the standings behind Roush teammate Greg Biffle.

• June 16 -- 1951: Frank Mundy, driving a 1951 Studebaker, leads 167 of 200 laps on the half-mile dirt track of Columbia (S.C.) Speedway to pick up his first win and the first of three wins for Studebaker. All three of Studebaker's wins in the Cup Series come in 1951, two from Mundy. Danny Weinberg gets the other.

• June 15 -- 1966: James Hylton, a 31-year-old rookie, finishes second in the Beltsville 200 at half-mile Beltsville (Md.) Speedway for his second lead-lap finish in his first 22 races. Hylton runs his 601st and final Cup race in 1993. Little did Hylton know he would have only five more lead-lap finishes the rest of his career and none after 1972. Hylton finishes his career with two wins. Three times he finishes second in the standings and four times he finishes third.

• June 14 -- 1992: Alan Kulwicki wins the Champion Spark Plug 500 at Pocono for his final NASCAR win. He beats Mark Martin by 2.34 seconds, and Bill Elliott is third. Kulwicki goes on to win the 1992 championship on the final day of the season, beating Elliott by 10 points.

• June 13 -- 1982: Tim Richmond wins the Budweiser 400 on the 2.62-mile road course of Riverside for his first of 13 Cup victories in his abbreviated career. The win, by 3.82 seconds in front of Terry Labonte, comes in his 44th Cup start.

• June 12 -- 1958: New Bradford Speedway in Bradford, Pa., becomes the eighth track in Pennsylvania to host a NASCAR race. Junior Johnson wins the 150-lap event on the one-third mile dirt track. Three days later Reading Fairgrounds becomes the ninth track in the state to host a NASCAR race. The final race at Langhorne Speedway is in 1960, and it won't be until 1974 at Pocono that NASCAR returns to the state.

• June 11 -- 1964: Ralph Earnhardt finishes 13th in the 20-car field at Concord (N.C.) Speedway in his final NASCAR start. Earnhardt starts fifth in the 200-lap race on the half-mile dirt track and retires after 55 laps with engine trouble. Richard Petty wins the race, followed by David Pearson and Ned Jarrett.

• June 10 -- 1951: Tim Flock wins the only NASCAR race at Columbus (Ga.) Speedway. Gober Sosebee finishes second and Herb Thomas third in the 200-lap race on the half-mile dirt track.

• June 9 -- 1991: Ricky Rudd crosses the finish line first in the Banquet Frozen Foods 300 at Sonoma -- but two hours after the race, Davey Allison is declared the winner. Rudd makes contact and spins out Allison with just more than a lap to go, but by the time NASCAR assesses Rudd with a stop-and-go penalty for rough driving, he already has taken the white flag. A black flag, rather than the checkers, greets Rudd at the finish line. Ultimately, Rudd is penalized 5 seconds, which places him behind Allison ... and Allison is declared the winner.

• June 8 -- 1967: Richard Petty wins his first of six races at Smoky Mountain Raceway in Maryville, Tenn. This is Petty's only win on dirt at the track. The half-mile track is paved for the final seven races (the 12th and final race is in 1971).

• June 7 -- 1953: NASCAR races for the first -- and to this day only -- time in the state of Louisiana with Lee Petty winning a 200-lap race on the half-mile dirt track of Louisiana Fairgrounds in Shreveport. Dick Rathmann finishes second and Herb Thomas third.

• June 6 -- 1982: Bobby Allison wins the first of three consecutive races at Pocono. Four years later, Tim Richmond will begin a run of three consecutive wins at the 2.5-mile track. They remain the only drivers to win three consecutive Cup races at the track.

• June 5 -- 1988: Subbing for Harry Gant, who was injured the week before in the Coca-Cola 600, Morgan Shepherd finishes second in the No. 33 Skoal Bandit Chevrolet in the Budweiser 500 at Dover. He leads 110 laps but finishes 21 seconds behind winner Bill Elliott.

• June 4 -- 1995: Kyle Petty wins the Miller Genuine Draft 500 at Dover from the 37th starting position, the lowest for a race winner at Dover. Petty leads 271 laps and beats Bobby Labonte to the line by .22 seconds.

• June 3 -- 2001: Jeff Gordon leads 381 of 400 laps and wins the MBNA Platinum 400, establishing a record for most laps led in a 400-lap race at Dover. After running 500-mile Cup races from 1971 to June '97, the race lengths at Dover are cut to 400 miles. Richard Petty sets the record for laps led in a 500-mile race at Dover in '74 when he leads 491.

• June 2 -- 1963: Banjo Matthews finishes 17th in the World 600 at Charlotte in his final NASCAR start as a driver. He ends his driving career winless in 51 starts before moving on to become a successful owner and an even more successful car builder.

• June 1 -- 1997: Ricky Rudd wins the Miller 500 at Dover, the last 500-mile Cup race at the track. (Continued)