#2-Rusty Wallace, involved in a hard crash with #15-Michael Waltrip and walked away from the wreck, requested to be airlifted to a nearby hospital to be checked out as he didn’t feel right. UPDATE: Rusty has been released from the hospital, is ok and is on his helicopter and headed home.(TNT Race Coverage)(8-23-2003) UPDATE 2: Wallace was treated and released later in the evening after a negative CT scan.( NASCAR.com )(8-24-2003) UPDATE 3: After the vicious crash that Miller Lite Team Penske Dodge driver Rusty Wallace endured Saturday night on lap 88 of the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, it could be expected that he would spend Sunday at home in bed trying to shake it off. Not Wallace. Instead, after a nice lunch at the family dining table, he could be found flying daughter Katie back to school at the College of Charleston (S.C.) “I have some really sore ribs and I bit the heck out of my tongue, but I’ve been up and moving around all morning long,” Wallace said early Sunday afternoon. “I haven’t seen the tape of the crash yet and several people have told me that I might not want to see it,” Wallace said, managing a chuckle. “I did all I could to avoid hitting the 15 car,” Wallace said of the accident in which Michael Waltrip got into the outside wall and slid back down the track in Wallace’s path. “I’m just glad that we both came out of that one okay. When I was in the infield care center there at the track, Dr. Petty said that it might be a good idea to go get a CT scan, so we went over to the hospital (Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center) and checked out just fine. Like I said, I’m fine but really sore right now. But if we had to race at Darlington tomorrow, I’d be right there ready to go I’m disappointed more than anything else because after we made that pit stop, our car was really flying. But we’ll never get to see just how strong it was. This season is beginning to remind me of our year in 1992 when we had all kinds of problems and just never could get things rolling along in the right direction,” Wallace said. “But as wacky as things are in the sport today, it’d be just right for us to win at Darlington this week (where Wallace is winless in 39 prior races).”(see full story at Tom Roberts Site )(8-25-2003)
