History of Dodge in Stock Car Racing Author:Frank Moriarty For more than 20 years, Dodge Chrysler stock car racing fans had little to cheer about. That all changed at the Daytona 500 in 2001, with popular driver Bill Elliott winning the pole position with the great crew chief Ray Evernham at the helm. Now, you Dodge fans can bone up on the history maybe you've never heard about, drivers like Jimmy Tho... more »mpson, Jim Paschal, Marvin Panch, and Lee Petty, power plants like the Fivepower V-8 and the legendary "Hemi," and that wild and crazy wonder of aerodynamics, the winged Dodge Charger Daytona.« less