• at the 1991 Daytona 500. In 2010, Osterlund was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame. Rod Osterlund started his first team in 1977. In...
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    Earnhardt competed in eight more races until 1979. When he joined car owner Rod Osterlund Racing in a season that included a rookie class of future stars including...
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  • curator Rod Osterlund, American NASCAR team owner Tommy Österlund (born 1966), Swedish rower This page lists people with the surname Osterlund. If an internal...
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    Dale Earnhardt Rod Osterlund Racing N/A Chevrolet 500 266.5 (428.89) 2:55:39 91.033 Report 1980 March 30 2 Dale Earnhardt Rod Osterlund Racing Mike Curb/Hodgdon...
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    Earnhardt drove races 1–20 in the No. 2 Rod Osterlund Wrangler Jeans Pontiac Grand Prix but left the team when Osterlund sold it to J. D. Stacy. He finished...
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    Chevrolet Oldsmobile 31 1 5 27 4,830 11 1980 Dale Earnhardt (1) Rod Osterlund (Osterlund Racing) 2 Phoenix(6) 31 0 5 24 4,661 19 1981 Darrell Waltrip (1)...
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    racing sponsorship was in 1979, when it sponsored the No. 2 Buick of the Rod Osterlund team in what was then known the Winston Cup Series, for the Talladega...
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  • Goodwrench. Earnhardt won his first six races in 1979 and 1980 driving for Rod Osterlund, winning Rookie of the Year honors in 1979 and his first of seven championships...
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    1974. He retired from driving in 1981 after Rod Osterlund sold his NASCAR team to J.D. Stacy, and Osterlund's driver Dale Earnhardt did not want to drive...
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    15–Bobby Allison David Pearson won the race for Rod Osterlund. This was Pearson's last race for Osterlund because Dale Earnhardt was back for the Capital...
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    attitude change with Earnhardt and also conflict with Rod Osterlund and team manager Roland Wlodyka ("Rod tells me one thing and Roland another. I tell Roland...
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  • championship. 1976 1977 1978 1979 David Pearson Wood Brothers Racing, Rod Osterlund Part time driver 1980 Bobby Allison Bud Moore Engineering 1981 Ranier-Lundy...
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    501 (806.281) 3:43:53 134.266 Report 1980 October 5 2 Dale Earnhardt Rod Osterlund Racing Chevrolet 334 501 (806.281) 3:42:18 135.243 Report 1981 October...
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    started out working for Rod Osterlund as a 16-year-old in 1976. Richert had gone to High School in San Jose with Osterlund's daughter who dated one of...
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    abandoning his 1978 Dodge Magnum. 1979: Pearson was hired to drive Rod Osterlund's Chevrolet after Dale Earnhardt was injured at Pocono and he won the...
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  • Oldsmobile 200 Lead lap, under green flag 10 165 5 7 2 Dale Earnhardt Rod Osterlund Racing Pontiac 200 Lead lap, under green flag 4 160 6 16 9 Bill Elliott...
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  • and following the race the Chevy equipment was sold to businessman Rod Osterlund and Marcis was tabbed as the new team's driver; the Mercury racecars...
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    216 (803.41) 3:41:47 135.136 Report 1980 March 16 2 Dale Earnhardt Rod Osterlund Racing Mike Curb/Hodgdon Chevrolet 328 499.216 (803.41) 3:42:32 134...
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    points. He then ran full-time in 1990, finishing in the top 10 twice for Rod Osterlund Racing in the No. 57 Heinz-sponsored Pontiac and finished 24th in points...
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    pit accident cost him his ride with Wood Brothers Racing. Driving Rod Osterlund's Chevrolet while regular driver Dale Earnhardt recovered from late-July...
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    was a nod to Richter's NFL number.) Gurney agreed to drive a second Rod Osterlund Chevrolet for one NASCAR race as teammate to 1979 rookie of the year...
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    to that point. He was hired by Rod Osterlund to be the crew chief for 1980 champion Dale Earnhardt. That June, Osterlund sold the team to J. D. Stacy and...
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  • Wood Brothers Racing Mercury 199 Engine 8 170 4 32 2 Dale Earnhardt Rod Osterlund Racing Oldsmobile 199 +1 Lap 10 165 5 14 27 Benny Parsons M. C. Anderson...
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  • race at Charlotte the previous month - was Dale Earnhardt in a second Rod Osterlund car. Los Angeles Times 500 - Cale Yarborough had to pit on the pace...
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  • career, he drove for series championship car owners Nord Krauskopf and Rod Osterlund. Marcis retired in second place on the all-time starts list with 883...
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  • former Dash champion Hut Stricklin, driving for returning car owner Rod Osterlund. Two-time Busch champion Larry Pearson and former modified driver Jimmy...
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  • 68 Chuck Bown Jim Testa Buick 199 +1 lap 0 146 8 10 2 Dale Earnhardt Rod Osterlund Racing Buick 199 +1 lap 10 147 9 37 14 Coo Coo Marlin Cunningham-Kelley...
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  • told there’s a 25-30% chance he can function again in society." The Rod Osterlund Racing team, which fielded cars for defending champion Dale Earnhardt...
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    (422.452) 3:29:40 75.119 Report 1980 September 28 2 Dale Earnhardt Rod Osterlund Racing Mike Curb/Hodgdon Chevrolet 500 262.5 (422.452) 3:46:07 69.654...
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    250.32 (402.85) 2:42:51 92.227 Report 1980 July 12 2 Dale Earnhardt Rod Osterlund Racing Chevrolet 420 250.32 (402.85) 2:40:05 93.821 Report 1981 July...
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