Two years ago it was Johnny Sauter who cruised as one of only three leaders the whole race, running 162 laps up front and taking victory at The Milwaukee Mile as the race ended under caution. Last year it was Paul Menard who led a race-high 85 laps and brushed aside a charging Kevin Harvick with three laps to go, which ultimately resulted in the aggressive Harvick spinning into a seven-car pileup while Menard rolled to victory. The last two Wisconsin races ... two Wisconsin winners. Neither Sauter nor Menard will be driving tonight. But Wisconsinites won't be without local flavor.
"I have been going to Milwaukee for as long as I can remember and watched my uncle race there along with #### Trickle, Rusty Wallace and Mark Martin," said Wausau native Scott Wimmer.
"The track itself is not one of my favorites just because I don't usually like the flat tracks very much, but winning there would be one of the best places to do it because it's home," said Todd Kluever, who is from Sun Prairie.
Mauston native Kelly Bires will be making just the third Busch Series start of his career by again filling in for Jon Wood. It will be his first NASCAR start at The Milwaukee Mile, although he has won at the track before in the American Speed Association Late Model Series.
On the opposite end of the spectrum is Frank Kreyer, a 37-year-old from Lyndon Station who has plenty of Late Model experience but will be making his Busch Series debut. He ran two Truck Series races at Martinsville and Mansfield to get certified to drive in the Busch Series.
He is not necessarily my boy. But I hope you enjoyed hearing more about Kelly Bires who appears to be an up and coming young gun in NASCAR. If he isn't my boy, why am I writing about him? He is a team mate of my boy Bobby Hamilton Jr. on the Ford Racing team in the Busch Series. That's why. Cheers!
Falcons: Nice article on the Busch drivers from Wisconson and beyond.Lets hope the regulars can blow off the Busch wackeers with their deep pocketed operations..Not many to deal with tonite but in the future.
Even if Hamlin wins this I can't take the points for picking him in the tri-fecta. I didn't pick Amirola. He started and he gets the win if it happens. Call me the stopper this week.
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