Wheldon to Nextel Cup

WhelenModifiedTour · WMT Moderator

Wheldon to Nextel Cup

spdracer19 · Pick-um contest administrator

Must be another future rice burner team coming in from the open wheel ranks to show everyone how it's done.

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

From Jayski.com:

If Dan Wheldon has plans to head to NASCAR, he's keeping them private. Wheldon, the defending Indy Racing League champion who lives in St. Petersburg, has moved to Target Chip Ganassi Racing for 2006. He comes off a sensational 2005 season in which he won six races, including the 89th Indianapolis 500 and Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg for Andretti Green Racing. While it's widely believed Wheldon got a huge raise at Ganassi, there might have been another inducement. Michael Andretti told the Express-Times of Easton, Pa., that Chip Ganassi has promised Wheldon a ride in Nextel Cup as soon as next season. Asked whether that's true Saturday after a photo shoot at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Wheldon wouldn't answer directly. "Like anything in my contract, I'm not allowed to discuss it," he said. "That's between me and Chip." Wheldon expressed interest in NASCAR last year while he was considering his options for 2006.(Tampa Tribune)(3-6-2006)