Former CART Indy car champion Jimmy Vasser, who made a startling debut in the NASCAR Busch Series at Speedweeks 2003, said over the weekend that he hoped to return to a stock car later this season. Vasser was running a #30-Braun Racing Dodge in the top-10 in the final five laps of the Koolerz 300 at Daytona International Speedway — an event for which he qualified fifth — when he was hit from behind, setting off a multi-car accident. He said that he would like to get back into a Busch car in “August or September.”
“I’d like to try to create an opportunity for myself down there,” Vasser said, adding that he’s gotten some advice and assistance from a couple Ganassi Racing insiders, team manager Andy Graves, who formerly was with Ganassi’s Indy car team; and talent scout Lorin Ranier. Vasser has only one free weekend from CART in August, but that coincides with the Busch weekend at Michigan International Speedway, a track he’s familiar with from Indy cars. He has the first three weekends in September free, but it remains to be seen what will be pulled together.(NASCAR.com Buzz)(6-3-2003)
