Team Yellow Racing looking good.

Team Yellow Racing flexed their restrictor plate muscle during Daytona's pre-season testing last month.

In the Phoenix Racing Pontiac, stand-in driver Joe Ruttman set NASCAR's fastest non-drafting speed (185.943 mph) on the final day of Busch Series testing. Now it's show time, and Yellow Racing driver Jimmy Spencer is ready to pick up where Ruttman left off.

"I think we should try to finish every race in the top 10," Spencer said. "That's our goal, and naturally, we think we can do that here. If we don't have any problems, we feel like we can be a contender every time we unload the car."

Spencer, who won three races and two poles last season, will step back into the Yellow Pontiac for the first of 24 companion races on the 2002 schedule. The EAS/GNC Live Well 300 will air live on Saturday at 1 p.m. (EST) on TNT.

Much of Spencer's success has come at superspeedways. The 1994 season featured two restrictor plate wins in the Winston Cup Series - one at the Pepsi 400 at Daytona and the other at the Die Hard 500 at Talladega. Last year he landed a second-place finish at Talladega in a scramble for the win on the final lap. But Spencer's chances of adding to his 11 career Busch Series wins have never been better than this weekend, where he will sit in the fastest seat in all of NASCAR preseason testing.

"We had two really good tests with this car," Spencer said. "I haven't been to Daytona in a Busch race in quite awhile, so I'm looking forward to it. I had a really good car at Talladega last year, and we finished second. We have another really fast car this week."

But even Spencer knows restrictor plate races cannot be won without drafting help.

"It's the only way you can win here," he said. "We got some help last year at Talladega and finished second. Now we need a little bit more help to win this race."

In other news at the track Monday, Spencer joined partnership with the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the agency's National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to promote antidrug resources to parents. Spencer, with Yellow's backing, kicked off his participation in the youth drug prevention effort at a press conference Monday.

"I think a lot of companies have an anti-drug stance, and Yellow is no different," Spencer said. "We need to carry that stance back to our houses. Kids are looking up to their parents. If you catch the problem at a young age, then maybe we can get rid of the problem. That's what we're trying to do - encourage parents to talk to their kids, spend time with them, take them to a movie, go bowling, or take them to a race."

"Yellow has stepped up to the plate and said we will not tolerate any drugs. To me that's a corporation that has values. Yellow sets an example for the employees who work there. This anti-drug deal is good for society, it really is."