Rodney Combs

His best run was a 23rd at Darlington, driving for Lake Speed.

Yet, Combs ran the majority of the races for the #89 Evinrude Pontiac.

He completed all but eight laps en route to a 25th-place finish.

The best run for that team was a 27th at Phoenix.

Driving the #5 for J.D. Stacy, Combs qualified the Stacy-Pak Buick to 28th on the starting position in the fall race at Atlanta, and finished in 9th place, leading five laps.

Combs started 33rd and appeared to earn another top-ten, but extremely late in the going, Combs' car blew an engine, putting him to 22nd.

Rodney Combs (born March 27, 1950) is an American former stock car racing driver.

Combs made his debut in 1982, in the then Winston Cup Series.

Combs made his Busch debut in 1982, the same year he made his Cup debut.

Driving for J.D. Stacy again, Combs drove the #4 Stacy Pontiac into the Charlotte field with a 7th place starting position.

Like he would in his Cup debut, Combs came home with a 9th place showing.

Combs was invited back by Stacy to drive the #12 Stroh's Buick in the 1983 fall race at Charlotte.

Combs made another one-off start in 1983.

Once again, Combs ran at Charlotte, where he qualified a 4th.

The next time Combs showed up was in 1984.

This time, Combs was behind the #2 Red Roof Inns Buick owned by Robert Harrington.

Combs, who was still doing Midwest racing, disappeared back to those ranks for a year, and then returned with a five-race deal in 1986.

Combs drove for a number of teams in 1987, yet still could not crack the top ten.

Overall, he had 14 starts in 1987, and earned a 35th-place position in points.

Despite all the starts, Combs had a worse year than in 1987, despite matching the 35th in points.

Combs ran nineteen races in 1988, the most active year of his career.

Seventeen of them were for the #97 ACDelco team, while Combs competed in one race for Ken Allen and another for Richard Childress Racing.

In 1989, Combs only made nine starts and did not even crack the top-20.

Combs also had three races in 1989 for Allen.

Combs ran all five races for the #89 team, but could only manage a best of 27th at Phoenix.

In addition, Combs only finished two of the races.

Overall in his Cup career, Combs had one top-ten finish and one top-10 start.

Combs made his last five career Cup starts in 1990.

He has not been in NASCAR since 1997, when he was released from his ride in the Busch Series.

Combs entered NASCAR after many years on the open-wheel and short track circuit in the Midwest, racing with Mark Martin and Dick Trickle.

Combs was a 2001 inductee in the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame.

Combs, however, did earn his first career top-10 starting spot, a 9th at Richmond.

Combs' biggest issue was 11 DNFs, though to Combs' defense, all but one of them was mechanical.

This time, Combs could not improve on his first finish, but still came home with a 10th-place showing.

His best finish was 11th at Bristol, but he only had one other top-20, a 14th at Michigan.

Driving Harrington's #2 Solder Seal/Gunk Pontiac, Combs had a best of 16th at Charlotte and a 19th at Talladega, where he led four laps.

However, Combs only finished the Charlotte race, falling out of the other four.

His best run was a 16th at Pocono, although he did have five other top-20s.

He ran the majority of the races for Elmo Langley's #64 team, although he did have some runs with DiGard Motorsports and Roger Hamby.

Combs made it into the August Michigan race with a 19th place qualifying effort.