The Bill Elliott Wish List

With Awesome Bill running in the second 150 on Thursday, there is a chance that he could be in the 500 field before he ever takes the green flag in that race.

Most likely favorable scenerio would be for both Trevor Bayne and David Sremme to race their way into the 500. Thiswould put Terry Labonte into the field on speed and put Bill into the big race on a past champion's provisional.

Less likely to happen would be for Terry to race his way in to open the door for Bill.

Even so, I think most would agree that Elliott will most likely have to race his way in.

updated by @robert-staley: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

I will say this about that:

NASCAR has never had two finer representatives of what racing is all about than Bill Elliott and Terry Labonte.

Wish success to both those old school racers.

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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"

The reason Bill qualified so bad was because he was driving a dang toyota. Last year when he drove the 500 for James Finch, he qualified 5th and finished 12th. He was in the lead pack with two to go. I'm just waiting to see what he can do with the Walmart car in July....

I'll be rootingfor both of them. Bill will certainly have a shot to get in on his own with teammate Joe Nemechek running in the same race. Speaking of the little team that could, it would be great to see both of front row Joe's machines in the 500.