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NASCAR Trucks: A Team ASE Homecoming at Nazareth

16 July 1999

*	Mike Wallace heads to Nazareth in the 8th position in NASCAR Craftsman
Truck points.  It is still a tight points race with eleven races to go,
and with many tracks at which Wallace and Ultra Motorsports have some
very good history.

*	Team ASE Crew Chief Tim Kohuth is a native of Allentown, PA and is
looking forward to "going home" for the weekend.  Kohuth has been in
motorsports since the age of 12 and raced late models and modifieds on
the dirt and asphalt tracks of the Allentown area.  In 1986, Kohuth was
"discovered" by Junie Donlavey and moved to Richmond to begin his NASCAR
career full-time with Donlavey.  In 1987, Kohuth joined Schrader Racing,
where he won the ARCA Daytona race with Mike Wallace, and BGN Dover and
Talladega races with Ken Schrader as the driver.   In 1999, Kohuth made
the career move to Ultra Motorsports in search of his first NASCAR
Championship.  Interestingly enough, Kohuth's racing hero is a dragster
- Don "The Snake" Prudhomme.  

*	Team ASE crewmembers Matt Pucchia and Kevin Buskirk are also from the
Allentown area, Buskirk a former racer himself.  Between Kohuth,
Pucchia, and Buskirk there should be plenty of family and friends
supporting the team from the grandstands on Sunday.

*	Kohuth will be taking the same truck to Nazareth that Ultra
Motorsports won the pole with here last year.  It is also the same truck
that won this year with Wallace at the helm at Pikes Peak International
Raceway.  Kohuth and Co. expressed some concerns about the track
surface, which crumbled in a few places last year, but trusts that
NASCAR will be on top of any situation that may arise.  

*	Ultra Motorsports NCTS record at Nazareth	 (with Mike Bliss/Barry
Dodson)
1996:	Q 4th		F 11th	152/152 laps
1997:	Q POLE	F 3rd	200/200 laps
1998:	Q POLE	F 25th	145/200 laps

*	Mike Wallace NCTS record at Nazareth		
1998:	Q 16th	F 22nd		174/200 laps (engine)

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