When they competed together under the Penske umbrella, Jeremy Mayfield and Rusty Wallace endured a rocky partnership as teammates. Now, with Mayfield admittedly older and wiser and Wallace in the twilight of his career, time appears to have healed the wounds. Mayfield currently competes in the Busch Series driving the Miller High Life Light Dodge owned by Wallace. He’ll steer that car throughout today’s Sharpie Professional 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway. “I kind of feel honored to be honest with you,” Mayfield said Friday. “His last year, (Rusty’s) Last Call, he asks me to drive it.” It’s a surprising turn of events, considering the frosty state of affairs between the two in the Penske days. But Mayfield says that’s all in the past. “You know, there’s a lot of things I did wrong that I could’ve done better to make that whole deal work,” he said. “We’d probably still be teammates right now. But I had a lot of growing up to do and had to be humbled and mature a lot, too, and I feel like I have.” Now with the Ray Evernham Dodge team in Nextel Cup competition, Mayfield said he sees a whole different side of his former teammate. “We never really got to know each other when we were teammates,” Mayfield said. “Now, the more I’m around him, I’m like Man, this guy’s cool as hell.'”(Kingsport Times News), may Newman and Rusty are next to fix things?(4-2-2005)
