In the third and final installment of our interview with Tony Liberati, Rambo goes to victory lane with Jimmie Johnson … but NOT before the future NASCAR Hall of Famer has already agreed to go Winston Cup racing with Hendrick Motorsports.

Tony sticks with Herzog Motorsports and wins another couple of races with Todd Bodine, before economics forces the team to shut its doors while still in the hunt for the Busch Series championship.

We then take a deep dive into the July 19, 2001 issue of Winston Cup Scene.

There was a seismic fallout from Jimmy Spencer’s comments that Dale Earnhardt Jr’s recent Daytona win was somehow fixed and Tony Stewart was feeling the heat after HIS Daytona tirade.

And … oh yeah … by the way … Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson won at Chicagoland.

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