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an American stock car racing driver driver. Born in Fenton, Missouri, he formerly competed in the NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series. He is a younger brother to Rusty Wallace, older brother to Kenny Wallace, and uncle to Steve Wallace. His daughter, Chrissy Wallace, and son, Matt Wallace, are also active in racing competition. Wallace made his Xfinity Series debut in 1990 at the season-closing Winston Classic at Martinsville Speedway. Starting twenty-fourth, Wallace finished sixth in the #40 Lowes Foods Chevrolet. The next season He also made his Cup debut at the Pyroil 500, where he finished 31st in the Jimmy Means-owned car. In 1992, Wallace signed on with Moroso Racing to pilot the #20 First Ade Oldsmobile in the Xfinity series. Early in 1994, Wallace was hired by Junie Donlavey to drive his #90 Heilig-Meyers Ford Thunderbird in the Cup Series. His season was capped off with a fifth-place finish at the Hooters 500. In the Xfinity Series, he won his first career race at Dover, followed

by victories at The Milwaukee Mile and Indianapolis Raceway Park. The following season, Wallace failed to qualify for five races in the Cup series, and dropped a spot in the standings. His lone lead-lap finish came at Bristol Motor Speedway, where he finished 8th. Twelve races into the 1996 season, Wallace was released from his Cup ride with Donlavey. Wallace began 1997 with high hopes in the #91 LJ Racing Chevrolet Monte Carlo owned by Joe Falk and Ron Neal. The team had moved up from the Xfinity Series and signed Spam as a full-time sponsor but after many DNQ's and a best finish of seventeenth at Texas Motor Speedway, the team lost its sponsor and Wallace found himself without a ride. Midway through the season, he left for the Truck series, driving the #52 Purolator Chevrolet Silverado for Ken

Schrader Racing. Wallace returned to run the Truck Series full-time in 1998 for Schrader. Although he did not win that season, he won his first career NASCAR pole at New Hampshire International Speedway and had eleven top-tens en route to a thirteenth-place points finish. In 1999, he left Schrader to drive the #2 Team ASE Racing Ford F-150 for Ultra Motorsports. He won in his first race for Ultra at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and won again six races later at Pikes Peak International Raceway. He finished sixth

in points. The following year, Wallace won an additional two truck races and moved up to fourth in points. After Ultra purchased the Mattei Motorsports #7 Nations Rent Cup team, Wallace was announced as the driver for 2001. Late in the season, Wallace was granted his release from Ultra, and joined Penske-Kranefuss Racing, driving the #12 Mobil 1 Ford Taurus as a teammate to his brother Rusty. In 2002 he began the season driving for Andy Petree for a pair of races, before financial problems caused that team to cease operations. In 2003, Biagi Bros. began racing full-time in the Xfinity Series with Wallace. Despite missing two races, Wallace had three top-tens and finished 13th in the final standings. In the Cup series, he had two top-tens

driving for Phoenix, as well as making eight starts filling for Jerry Nadeau in the #01 U.S. Army Pontiac Grand Prix for MB2/MBV Motorsports. In 2004, at the mid-season race at Daytona, Wallace took the lead on the last lap and won his fourth career race, the first for Biagi in one of the biggest wins of his career. Wallace began driving for MMM full-time in 2005. Despite an eighth-place finish at the Pepsi 400, Wallace was released towards the end of the season by MMM. He began 2006 in the Truck Series running for HT Motorsports, but was released after finishing 31st in each

of his first two starts. Already signed on to run Phoenix's Cup car, Miccosukee Resorts Dodge signed Wallace to be their full-time driver for the remainder of 2006 to replace Jason Keller, and had three top-five finishes. In 2007, Wallace piloted the #7 GEICO Chevrolet for Phoenix Racing with teammate J.J. Yeley. In 2008, Wallace, GEICO, and his car number moved from Phoenix Racing to Germain Racing, where he drove a Toyota Camry. He had eight top-tens and finished a career best eight in points. After he did not renew his contract with Germain, Wallace attempted the 2009 Daytona 500 for Kevin Buckler, but failed to make the race. On October 31, 2009 in the Mountain Dew 250 he raced the #48 for Fast Track Racing Enterprises in the

Truck Series along with his daughter Chrissy Wallace. It was the first time that a father and daughter raced in the same race. Mike finished 28th after an accident and Chrissy finished 13th. At the end of the 2013 season Wallace announced his retirement from NASCAR racing. For his career Mike ran in 115 Truck Series races and won on five occasions and had a best finish of fourth in the points. In the Xfinity Series he ran 494 races winning four times. For his Cup career he raced in 22 seasons and 197 races. His best finish was second at Phoenix in 2001. Some info from Wikipedia

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MICHAEL SAMUEL "MIKE" WALLACE - 03/10/1959