Steve Wallace knocked down the fence – literally – at Daytona on Monday. The second-year driver was leaving the garage through an opening on pit road when he lost control of his #66 Rusty Wallace Racing Chevy and slammed into a chain-link fence and pole behind the pit wall. Part of a gate was knocked off its hinges, and another part of the fence was twisted. “Sometimes you do the most embarrassing stuff you ever thought you’d do in your life, and today was it,” Wallace said. The front end of Wallace’s car was damaged enough that track workers needed a rollback to take the car back to the team’s garage stall. Wallace said he had been making drafting runs in the afternoon, when brake pads are pulled back off the rotors. “It usually takes four or five pumps to build the pedal back up so the car can stop, and I just honestly forgot the brakes were pulled back, went around the corner too fast, went to hit the brakes, and the brake pedal hit the floor,” Wallace said. “There was nothing I could do about it.”(SceneDaily.com)(1-21-2008)
IMAGE: See an image of the car on the Daytona Testing page(1-21-2008)
