kelloggs5TLfan
Team Owner
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Steve Wallace knocked down the fence - literally - at Daytona International Speedway on Monday.
http://www.scenedaily.com/stories/2008/01/21/scene_daily74.html
The second-year driver was leaving the garage through an opening on pit road when he lost control of his No. 66 Rusty Wallace Racing Chevrolet and slammed into a chain-link fence and pole behind the pit wall. Part of a gate was knocked off its hinges, and another part of the fence was twisted.
"Sometimes you do the most embarrassing stuff you ever thought you'd do in your life, and today was it," Wallace said.
The front end of Wallace's car was damaged enough that track workers needed a rollback to take the car back to the team's garage stall.
Wallace said he had been making drafting runs in the afternoon, when brake pads are pulled back off the rotors.
"It usually takes four or five pumps to build the pedal back up so the car can stop, and I just honestly forgot the brakes were pulled back, went around the corner too fast, went to hit the brakes, and the brake pedal hit the floor," Wallace said. "There was nothing I could do about it."
Wallace said the damage was done to the slower of the team's two cars, and that crew chief Harold Holly was going to cut the nose off anyway to try to improve the aerodynamics.
Still, Wallace was frustrated.
"Imagine pulling into your driveway, and you make a right and hit the brakes and nothing goes, and you run your mailbox over," Wallace said.
http://www.scenedaily.com/stories/2008/01/21/scene_daily74.html
The second-year driver was leaving the garage through an opening on pit road when he lost control of his No. 66 Rusty Wallace Racing Chevrolet and slammed into a chain-link fence and pole behind the pit wall. Part of a gate was knocked off its hinges, and another part of the fence was twisted.
"Sometimes you do the most embarrassing stuff you ever thought you'd do in your life, and today was it," Wallace said.
The front end of Wallace's car was damaged enough that track workers needed a rollback to take the car back to the team's garage stall.
Wallace said he had been making drafting runs in the afternoon, when brake pads are pulled back off the rotors.
"It usually takes four or five pumps to build the pedal back up so the car can stop, and I just honestly forgot the brakes were pulled back, went around the corner too fast, went to hit the brakes, and the brake pedal hit the floor," Wallace said. "There was nothing I could do about it."
Wallace said the damage was done to the slower of the team's two cars, and that crew chief Harold Holly was going to cut the nose off anyway to try to improve the aerodynamics.
Still, Wallace was frustrated.
"Imagine pulling into your driveway, and you make a right and hit the brakes and nothing goes, and you run your mailbox over," Wallace said.
