Hornish to run Busch & ARCA in 2007

[Hoosier_Vol]

Roger Penske said Saturday that he was working on a plan that would allow his IRL driver Sam Hornish Jr. to race in some NASCAR Busch Series and ARCA Series races next season. That would be in addition to a full IRL schedule for Hornish, who won the Indianapolis 500 this year. “Sam has talked about running some Busch or ARCA races, and we’re looking at a potential program,’’ Penske said before the Sharpie 500. “We haven’t put all the pieces together.” Although Penske used an ARCA, Busch and Nextel Cup program to develop the driver Ryan Newman before promoting him to the Cup series full-time, Penske said it was too early to say if Hornish would move up to compete in the Cup series by 2008.(New York Times)(8-28-2006)

 

[checkerboard_charly]

Why not put this in the Nascar thread, rocky??

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

Didn't know it was required?

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

There are alot of big name open wheel drivers flirting with stock cars all of a sudden.

 

[tidwell]

Cool.

I was hoping Sam would end up at TEI when those rumors were floating around a few years ago when he and the #1 DEI car were both sponsored by Pennzoil at the time.