With a pole in his first Busch Series race, Mexico’s Jorge Goeters is likely to have several other NASCAR starts this year, “We don’t know yet. Maybe Phoenix or Texas or Homestead, someplace his sponsors … have business in those areas,” Brewco Motorsports president Todd Wilkerson said. Goeters, a veteran of local Mexican stock car circuits, was brought into the field because his Mexican sponsors saw a chance to capitalize on the first-ever NASCAR race in Mexico. They got good value. He won the pole, led for the first 24 laps Sunday and repeatedly climbed back from setbacks before an engine forced him out on the 66th lap. “We tested at Virginia Raceway about a month ago and he was as fast as Boris Said and those guys,” Wilkerson said. Taking over the #66 Ford run by Greg Biffle and Aaron Fike, Goeters won the pole at the 2.518-mile Mexico City course, outpacing NASCAR regulars as well as nine fellow Mexicans familiar with the track. Goeters, 34, had called the pole position “the happiest day of my life” and said he’d long dreamed of racing in NASCAR.” Wilkerson said before the race that he hoped to run Goeters in some oval races. “He runs a little bit of oval down here, not a lot. A mile’s the biggest track that they run. As quick as he adapted to these cars, I think he’ll adapt to the ovals.”(ESPN.com/AP)(3-7-2005)
