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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 11:34 AM (84 Views) | |
| Orangesmoke20 | Mar 2 2006, 11:34 AM Post #1 |
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Too hot to handle.. too cold to hold... ohhhhhh yeahhhhh!!!
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Rusty Wallace to Test IndyCar: To prepare for his role as an analyst for ABC Sports' and ESPN's coverage of the 2006 IRL IndyCar Series season, Rusty Wallace will drive an IndyCar Series car on Thursday, March 2 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Wallace won the 1989 NASCAR championship and scored 55 NASCAR Cup Series victories in his racing career. He retired after the 2005 season and drove the past 15 years for Roger Penske, the winningest car owner in Indianapolis 500 history. The Indy Racing League kicks off its Open Test at Homestead-Miami Speedway March 2-6. The IRL returns to the Sunshine State for the IndyCar Series' Toyota Indy 300 and Indy Pro Series' Miami 100 at the 1.5-mile oval, both on March 26.(Homestead-Miami Speedway)(3-2-2006) |
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| Ram Jam | Mar 2 2006, 11:42 AM Post #2 |
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In It 2 Win It
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:woot: :woot: He should enter the Indy 500. They'll have plenty of open spots. |
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| CR49 | Mar 2 2006, 11:44 AM Post #3 |
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"3 Can Keep a Secret if 2 are Dead"
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I won't be watching any Indy races this season. :shifty: The sad part will be I will have to tolerate him when Nascar gets on ESPN and ABC. :aaron: |
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| Orangesmoke20 | Mar 2 2006, 11:47 AM Post #4 |
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Too hot to handle.. too cold to hold... ohhhhhh yeahhhhh!!!
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how long till he calls sam hornish out on being a bad teammate |
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| Ram Jam | Mar 2 2006, 11:54 AM Post #5 |
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Well he would just be stating facts. :shifty: |
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| Deleted User | Mar 2 2006, 11:57 AM Post #6 |
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:bs: :angry: :finger2: |
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| Orangesmoke20 | Mar 2 2006, 12:02 PM Post #7 |
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Too hot to handle.. too cold to hold... ohhhhhh yeahhhhh!!!
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if mark martin dont like you .. there is usally something behind it |
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| Ram Jam | Mar 2 2006, 12:03 PM Post #8 |
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That's right. Go Helio. |
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| Orangesmoke20 | Mar 3 2006, 10:29 PM Post #9 |
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Too hot to handle.. too cold to hold... ohhhhhh yeahhhhh!!!
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UPDATE: While Rusty Wallace retired from NASCAR competition following last year's Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, he decided a little "track time" will help him in his new role as commentator on ABC and ESPN's IRL IndyCar Series telecasts which will begin with the March 26 Toyota Indy 300. Thursday, Wallace slid behind the wheel of Sam Hornish's Penske Racing Honda Dallara, and ran eight laps around the 2.21-mile Homestead-Miami Speedway road circuit. "I feel like I'm going on my first roller coaster ride," Wallace said before firing up the car. Wallace said that Team Penske teammates Hornish and Helio Castroneves gave him all the information he needed. "Then Helio said, 'It's not a qualifying lap. Go out and have fun.'" Wallace did just that - although he failed to heed Castroneves' final word of advice - "Don't stall." Wallace ran a best unofficial time of 1:18 - an impressive seven seconds slower than Castroneves' best lap of the day of 1:11.01 "I'll tell you, I never could have reported on this sport the way it needs to be reported without getting to drive this car," Wallace said. "I was really impressed with the brakes - they could stop on a dime. The acceleration was incredible. But the biggest surprise to me was how you go out and get such great speed, and as you turn down off the back straightaway, I can't believe how hard the wheel gets going into turn 10. As you ark off into there, the steering wheel's locked up. It's amazing. That was the only place that was spooky. The slow corners were fun, the upshifts were fun. These are incredible hot rods. I'm glad I did it." Asked how long it would have taken him to get up to speed, Wallace said, "If I started off in the morning, I think by the end of the day I would have been within a second and a half. I knew in my mind where I gave up stuff. The biggest thing I needed was the car to fit me better, and getting more seat time to build confidence that this car will stick. I don't know the operational envelop of these cars and how far you can take them." It was Wallace's first time around the 2.21-mile Homestead-Miami Speedway road course. "I've been coming to Homestead forever and ever, always running the oval, and I've never seen the road course before today," Wallace said. "It's a great road course. I can't believe how beautiful it is, and I never saw it before. Every time we came here it was covered with motorhomes." While Wallace joked about talking team owner Roger Penske into running a third car for him in the Indianapolis 500, he was serious about getting more track time in an open-wheel car this year. "I'm going to do it all year long in the two-seater, run all the tracks and get a good idea of what's going on," Wallace said.(HMS PR)(3-3-2006) |
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| Deleted User | Mar 3 2006, 11:41 PM Post #10 |
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http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/pgStory?contentId=5375896 |
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| Ram Jam | Mar 4 2006, 10:47 PM Post #11 |
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:woot: go Rusty. |
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