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Rusty Wallace

Rusty Wallace Rusty Wallace makes a tight turn during the Advance Auto Parts 500 at Martinsville Speedway.

Russell William "Rusty" Wallace (born August 14, 1956 in Fenton, Missouri) is a retired professional NASCAR driver.

Wallace joined the Winston Cup circuit in 1984, winning Rookie of the Year honors. By 1989, Wallace had won the NASCAR Winston Cup Championship, beating out close friend and fierce rival Dale Earnhardt by twelve points. Rusty's first win came on April 6, 1986, at Bristol Motor Speedway, this would also become the site of his 50th career NASCAR win. To date, Rusty had 55 NASCAR wins, good enough for 8th place on NASCAR's all-time wins list.

In the late 70's prior to joining the NASCAR circuit, Wallace made a name for himself racing around the Midwest winning a pair of local track championships and in 1979 he won United States Auto Club's (USAC) Rookie of the Year honors while competing against the likes of A.J. Foyt and other racing legends. Rusty won more than 200 short track races prior to joining NASCAR fulltime in 1984. In 1983 he won the American Speed Association (ASA) championship while competing against some of NASCAR's future stars like Mark Martin, 1992 NASCAR Champion Alan Kulwicki and Dick Trickle.

Rusty Wallace's 1996 #2 Miller Ford at Watkins Glen

Off the track, Wallace is an avid pilot, owning several airplanes and a helicopter. He also owns and operates Rusty Wallace, Inc., which fields the #64 NASCAR Busch Series car driven by Jamie McMurray or Jeremy Mayfield. On August 30, 2004 Wallace announced that the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup season would be his last as a full-time driver. However, he may continue to run a limited schedule after the 2005 season -- as semi-retirees Bill Elliott and Terry Labonte also have done.

Rusty's two brothers, Kenny and Mike, also currently race on the NASCAR circuit. Rusty and his wife Patti have three children -- Greg, Katie and Stephen and now live on a large ranch outside Charlotte, N.C.

Stephen is a race car driver and in 2004, at the age of 17, won one of the biggest short track races in the country, the Snowball Derby, in Pensacola, Florida, a race Rusty and Kenny both entered, but failed to win in their careers, and in 2005, shortly after turning 18, won the ARCA Hantz Group 200 at Michigan International Speedway in a Kodak sponsored Penske Racing Dodge.

Greg is the RWI public relations manager, but has also served internships at NASCAR while attending college when he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. He is a student at the Wake Forest University School of Law.

On January 25, 2006, it was announced that Rusty will cover auto racing events for ABC/ESPN, beginning with the IRL. He is expected to join the NASCAR broadcasting team for ABC/ESPN when the networks return to the sport in 2007. [1]


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straight collar — or point collar, a version of the windsor collar that is distinguished by a narrower spread to better accommodate the four-in-hand knot, pratt knot, and the half-windsor knot. wing collar — best suited for the bow tie, often only worn for very formal occaisions. tab collar — a collar with two small fabric tabs that fasten together behind a tie to maintain collar spread. The standard business collar.

windsor collar— or spread collar, a dressier collar designed with a wide distance between points (the spread) to accommodate the windsor knot tie. with collar

    . with open or tassel neck. with plunging neck.

    with v-neck. with polo-neck. With regard to the neck:

      . men's shirts are often buttoned on the right whereas women's are often buttoned on the left.

      vertical opening on the upper front side with buttons or zipper

        . no opening at the upper front side. V-shaped permanent opening on the top of the front side. left and right front side not separable, put on over the head; with regard to upper front side opening:
          .

          When fastened with buttons, this opening is often called the placket front. vertical opening on the front side, all the way down, with buttons or zipper. With regard to opening or front:

            . covering part of the legs (essentially this is a dress; however, a piece of clothing is either perceived as a shirt (worn with trousers) or as a dress (in Western culture mainly worn by women)).

            covering the crotch. until the waist. See halfshirt. leaving the belly button area bare (much more common for women than for men.

            With regard to level of the lower edge:

              . A link cuff is fastened like a french cuff, except is not folded over, but instead hemmed, at the edge of the sleeve. More formally, a link cuff is worn. This type of cuff has four buttons and a short placket.

              Typically a french cuff, where the end half of the cuff is folded over the cuff itself and fastened with a cufflink. buttonholes only for use with cufflinks.

                . Multiple buttons aligned perpendicular to the cuff hem, or parallel to the placket constitute a barrel cuff. A single button or pair aligned parallel with the cuff hem is considered a button cuff.

                buttons — single or multiple. See closed placket cuff. no buttons. with long sleeves, may further be distinguished by the cuffs:

                  .

                  with half-long sleeves. with short sleeves. covering the shoulders, but without sleeves. with only bands on the shoulders.

                  with no covering of the shoulders or arms — a tube top (not reaching higher than the armpits, staying in place by elasticity, see e.g [3]). With regard to covering the shoulders and arms:

                    . diaper shirt — a shirt for infants which includes a long tail that is wrapped between the legs and buttoned to the front of the shirt. It is mechanically analogous to an apron with a string around the back of the neck and across the lower back holding it in place.

                    halter top — a shoulderless, sleeveless, backless garment for women. see e.g [2]). tube top or boob tube — a shoulderless, sleeveless "tube" that wraps the torso (not reaching higher than the armpits, staying in place by elasticity or by a single strap that is attached to the front of the tube. [1].

                    See e.g. fishnet shirt, transparent, initially popular fashion item of punk culture or goth culture. baseball shirt — usually distinguished by a three quarters sleeve, team insignia, and flat waistseam. halfshirt — a high-hemmed t-shirt.

                    Often worn with a sweater vest. golf shirt — same as polo shirt, typically embroidered with club or designer insignia; maybe be short or long-sleeved. guayabera — an embroidered dress shirt with four pockets. Actually called an Aloha shirt, but is often also called a "tropical shirt," hawaiian shirts are often not fitted and are woven from very light fabric.

                    Hawaiian shirt — a colourful short-sleeve dress shirt. rugby shirt — typically a rugged long-sleeved polo shirt, of thick cotton or wool. sweatshirt — cotton or synthetic athletic shirt, with or without hood. nightshirt — often oversized, ruined or inexpensive light cloth undergarment shirt for sleeping.

                    blouse — lady's shirt; the term is also used for some men's military uniform shirts. Initially a men's garment, is normally seen in modern times being worn by women. tunic — primitive shirt, distinguished by two-piece construction. Also referred to as a cami, shelf top, spaghetti straps or strappy top.

                    camisole — woman's undershirt with narrow straps, or a similar garment worn alone (often with bra). Often worn by construction workers for increased movability. construction shirt — essentially a sleeveless t-shirt with large armholes. wife beater — a tank top worn as an outer layer, also called an "A-shirt" or athletic shirt.

                    tank top — a sleeveless T-shirt.

                      . shirt or dress shirt — a shirt with collar and full vertical opening with buttons; left and right sides of this shirt meet with the placket front. Short or long sleeve. polo shirt — a v-neck shirt with a full collar; opening often closed with buttons or zipper.

                      T-shirt — a casual shirt without a collar or buttons, usually short-sleeved.