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Rusty Wallace takes some laps in his son’s Busch car:

Rusty Wallace visited Daytona International Speedway Saturday with several of his ESPN announcing colleagues to meet with Busch Series competitors testing for the Orbitz 300. Wallace, who will provide color commentary for nearly 50 ESPN race broadcasts, was asked by his son Steve to shake down one of his #66 Dodges. “Steve said the car was real loose, so I made some changes to it, fired it up and went out to draft,” Rusty Wallace said. “I made four laps and the spotter tells me, ‘Here comes the draft.’ “As soon as they caught me, the thing blows up on the front stretch right near the start/finish line.” Wallace said he hopes to draft with his son today and give him pointers via two-radio while turning laps over the 2.5-mile tri-oval. “I want to watch him and I want to talk back and forth with him, plus I want to give him some input and help him,” he said.(Daytona Beach News Journal)(1-21-2007)