Dan Wheldon, this year’s Indy 500 winner, was a guest at Chicago of [Robby] Gordon. Wheldon said he’s looking at the NASCAR world for a possible career move, eventually.(Winston Salem Journal)(7-11-2005)
UPDATE: Indy 500 Champ Dan Wheldon told Claire B. Lang (CBL) of XM Satellite NASCAR Radio (regarding the possiblity of making the move to NASCAR):
CBL: Have you talked to some stock car teams seriously:
Wheldon: “I have talked to some teams seriously, yes. I mean obviously my experience in this right now is zero. But there’s certainly a lot of interest and there’s certainly a lot of interest on my part so we’ll just have to wait and see.
CBL: What would it take to make the move?
Wheldon: “I’d need to be obvioiusly in a very very good team I think have a lot of testing and the ability to race some Busch races and stuff like that. I gotta consider everyting, I’m a driver and you know you’ve got to look to the future and that’s what I’m looking at. But, I haven’t decided what I’m going to do as of yet.”
CBL: Do you have a deadline when you have to decide?
Wheldon: “Yea I’m going to have to in the next three or four weeks for sure.”(XM Satellite NASCAR Radio)(7-12-2005)
