The Scene Vault Podcast

Episode 380 -- Bobby Hutchens on Bowman Gray, Bringing Engineering to RCR and LIfe with Earnhardt

The Scene Vault Podcast

Show Notes

In the first installment of what will be a two-part interview, Bobby Hutchens goes from Bowman Gray Stadium to North Carolina State University and then to Richard Childress Racing, where he helps change the culture on one of the sport’s most successful teams as a mechanical engineer.

Along with guest co-host Tony Liberati, we then dig into the April 22, 1993 issue of Winston Cup Scene.

Rusty Wallace wins at North Wilkesboro after which he does the Polish victory lap for the second race in a row, in memory of Alan Kulwicki.

Sterling Marlin dominates the first half of the event, while Jim Roper pays a visit to the track that weekend. There’s fallout about the announcement that Hooters would be ending its sponsorship of Alan Kulwicki Racing … and hope for the future after it’s announced that NASCAR would be racing at Indy for the first time the following year.

Finally … Ricky Rudd wants a word … or a pound of flesh … from Brett Bodine in the North Wilkesboro garage.

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