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Kenny Wallace is one of the richest Race Car Driver from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kenny Wallace's net worth $9 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He began working as a mechanic for his father’s race cars, then won the first race he entered, the Illinois Street Stock State Championship.
In addition to his on-track accomplishments, he joined the SPEED TV network as an on-air personality, appearing on NASCAR RaceDay and NASCAR Victory Lane.
Wallace is a member of a large racing family. Wallace’s father, Russ, was a prolific winner on Midwestern short tracks in the 1960s and 1970s. Kenny and his older brothers, Rusty Wallace and Mike Wallace, followed in their father’s footsteps. Rusty is the 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion and winner of 55 Cup Series races. Mike is a winner of four Nationwide Series and four Camping World Truck Series races. Rusty’s son, Steve Wallace, is a former Nationwide Series driver, and Mike’s daughter, Chrissy Wallace, has participated in multiple Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series races.
Wallace and FILMAR began racing in Cup full-time 1996 with funding from Square D. They had two top-ten finishes and finished 28th in points. The following season, he won two poles, at Bristol and Martinsville respectively, but fell five spots in the standings. Despite seven Top 10’s in 1998, Wallace and Square D left FILMAR to drive Andy Petree Racing’s new No. 55 entry. Wallace finished in the top-ten five times and had a career-best twenty-second-place finish in points. After only one Top 10 in 2000 and a 26th-place finish in the points, he departed the team. The sole Top 10 came in his second-place finish to Dale Earnhardt in the 2000 Winston 500, which was Earnhardt’s 76th and final victory. Wallace pushed Earnhardt to the front in four laps to the lead.
In 2001, Wallace signed with the unsponsored Eel River Racing team, and also was hired to drive the No. 48 Goulds Pumps-sponsored Chevy in the Busch Series full-time for Innovative Motorsports. After several DNQ’s, Wallace resigned from the team to concentrate on his Busch ride. He won his first race in seven years at North Carolina Speedway and finished tenth in points. He also filled in for Steve Park in the Cup Series, winning one pole and nailing down two top tens, including a second-place finish at Rockingham Speedway, tying a career best. He did not win in 2002, but moved up to seventh in the Busch series standings in the No. 48 Chevrolet now sponsored by Stacker 2. He replaced Kevin Harvick in Richard Childress Racing’s No. 29 car at Martinsville after the latter was suspended for deliberately wrecking another driver in the Truck Series race the day before. He was hired late in the season by Bill Davis Racing to replace Hut Stricklin in the No. 23 Hills Brothers Coffee-sponsored Dodge, and was hired to drive the car full-time in 2003, bringing his Stacker 2 sponsorship with him and continuing to drive in the Busch Series for Davis. After one top ten finish, Wallace and the team moved down to the Busch Series in 2004, garnering ten top tens. He also drove in the Cup Series five times for Michael Waltrip Racing.
