Patrick draws Rolex 24 Invite From Wallace
Danica Patrick turned approximately 20 laps at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday during the first day of Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series testing in preparation for the Rolex 24 At Daytona on January 28-29.
The 23-year-old Patrick tested the No. 2 Howard-Boss Motorsports Pontiac Crawford with an eye toward competing in the 44th annual twice-around-the clock event, and is sharing the car at the test with recently-retired NASCAR star Rusty Wallace. The 1989 NASCAR champion has officially announced his participation in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, and has invited Patrick to join the team, which will also include American road racing stalwart Boris Said, and Scottish sports car ace Allan McNish.
"We're running the Rolex 24 for sure," Wallace said. "We're going to get (Patrick) in the car and get her some time, and see if she likes driving the car. It's kind of up to her if she wants to be the fourth driver in the car. She's got the invitation, there's no doubt about that, but we feel like we're going to have a good, winning team, and we feel like we're organized."
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Daily dose of
Jayski, now that we're in turn 3 of Silly Season -
- Larry Foyt's 2006 plans fell through.
- Some more details on the AAA-Roush relationship - they have an exhibit with the car and a simulator at the Detroit auto show, and Mark Martin's made some PSAs.
- The Other Sadler will be running the #00 Aaron's Dream Machine in a limited Cup schedule (dunno if it's still Michael Waltrip Racing).
- According to DW, a 3-car Cup team with no crew chiefs (Evernham?) will be moving its shop to Indy.
And catching up on Busch from
BGNRacing.com, which has a new paint scheme due to a partnership with ppc Racing -
- Herm will have his own radio show on KMOX Fridays at 8 pm Central starting 2/17 (they do stream on the web, so even if the atmoshphere hasn't ionized enough to let you lisen to 1120 on your AM dial, or you're in the 6 states that nighttime signal doesn't reach, you can still listen). Rusty and other special guests will fill in when the Busch Series is running Friday nights.
- Long Gone's Busch plans fell through.
- Jay Robinson Racing appears to have parted ways with Steve Grissom, will run a limited schedule with the #49 and Advil. Driver to be named later pending sponsorship for the other 17 races.
- If Paul Tracy runs Busch next year, it probably won't be with the Biagi Brothers due to a lack of sponsor.
- Yellow Transportation is following Mini-Sauter to the Haas team (still unknown is whether they'll still use the #44 or #00).
- Latin American Racing, with driver Jorge Goeters, have aligned with Akins Motorsports (#38).