 Despite missing a race where Rick Carelli filled in, Wallace finished thirteenth in points that year, one position shy of matching his career-best.The following season, Biagi switched from Chevrolets to Fords, and at the Winn-Dixie 250, Wallace took the lead on the last lap to score Biagi's first career Busch victory.He led eighteen laps the following week at Chicagoland Speedway, but ran out of fuel on the last lap, costing him the victory.