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NASCAR says no to Daytona 500 entry for Mike Wallace, who’s been idling too lengthy
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NASCAR says no to Daytona 500 entry for Mike Wallace, who’s been idling too lengthy

By Miles Cooper January 14, 2025
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On second thought, NASCAR feared may be … yep … too rusty.

Ten days after 65-year-old Mike Wallace introduced he would try , NASCAR’s competitors division has intervened and basically taken away grandpa’s keys.

Wallace, the center sibling of three racing brothers (Kenny is youthful, Corridor of Famer Rusty is older), final began a race a decade in the past — it occurred to be the 2015 Daytona 500. He ran three Xfinity Sequence races in 2020, however all have been on highway programs.

This is the official Tuesday morning assertion from NASCAR: “For every résumé approval request, current racing exercise and efficiency is a main issue for consideration. Wallace has not raced on an intermediate or bigger racetrack since 2015. Resulting from this inactivity, right now, he isn’t permitted to race on the NASCAR Cup Sequence stage.”

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NASCAR says no to Daytona 500 entry for Mike Wallace, who’s been idling too lengthy

In a social media submit, Wallace instructed he’d earlier been he could be welcome to attempt to earn a spot within the Feb. 16 . However he mentioned he acquired discover Monday, from NASCAR competitors director Elton Sawyer, that he wouldn’t be granted permission to race in any of the circuit’s prime three sequence (Cup, Xfinity, Vans) this 12 months however may undergo a technique of incomes a license for 2026.

Mike Wallace has a superb Daytona file

Mike Wallace says NASCAR has knowledgeable him that he’s not permitted for any nationwide touring race at Daytona in 2025

Wallace had three top-10s in 11 Daytona 500 begins between 1995-2015, with a fourth-place end in ’07. He received 3 times at Daytona, as soon as every within the Xfinity, Vans and ARCA sequence.

For this 12 months’s longshot effort, Wallace additionally mentioned he was bringing a sponsorship dedication to the trouble, although that hadn’t been introduced but. MBM’s affirmation of Wallace’s sponsor tag-along signifies it was the impetus behind the would-be effort.

“For MBM, we should regroup at this late stage with the lack of our driver and sponsor for the Nice American Race,” the staff mentioned in its announcement. “Our staff is working swiftly to signal one other funded driver for Speedweeks in an effort to nonetheless try the 67th Daytona 500. Sponsorship alternatives stay with our No. 66 staff.”

Contact data was then added.

NASCAR and Carl Lengthy have a sensitive historical past

MBM Motorsports is owned and operated by former driver Carl Lengthy, and if that identify sounds acquainted to informal followers, it’s as a result of this isn’t his first smack-down from NASCAR.

In 2009, Lengthy was a fledgling racer with a wafer-thin funds. Over the course of a decade, he’d certified for 23 Cup Sequence races with 4 totally different producers, with a best-ever end of twenty ninth.

He arrived on the 2009 All-Star weekend to run the preliminary race, utilizing an engine he’d bought from a not too long ago shuttered race staff. Among the many largest no-no’s in auto racing is the usage of an engine that sits past the allowed measurement. Lengthy’s engine was a fraction over the 358 cubic-inch restrict.

The 12-race suspension was one factor, however the accompanying tremendous of $200,000, NASCAR’s largest ever monetary penalty on the time, mainly shut down Lengthy’s NASCAR’s efforts. Unable to pay the tremendous, Lengthy was barred from the Cup Sequence storage for eight years.

He spent a lot of the following years working for Truck and Xfinity groups in numerous crewman roles, together with mechanic, till his Cup ban was lifted in 2017. If he hoped to stay under the radar upon returning, he failed.

It isn’t the primary NASCAR plans snuffed out on Carl Lengthy

Shortly after Lengthy’s reinstatement to the Cup storage, he arrived at Kansas Speedway with a Chevy sporting the emblem and identify of a pot-vaping firm from Colorado (“Veedverks”). The excitement-kill got here throughout tech inspection when NASCAR mentioned no to the sponsorship.

“Simply depart it to me to create an enormous stink,” Lengthy mentioned on the time.

Veedverks was changed by Poker Palace.

His MBM staff has entered 127 races over the earlier eight Cup seasons with quite a lot of drivers. Final season, six totally different drivers began 13 races for MBM, with a greatest end of twenty eighth on the Chicago Road Race.

For the beginning of 2025, Lengthy might want to hurry to discover a driver and funding to make a run on the highest-profile race in NASCAR.

“This has now put them in a horrible place,” Wallace wrote in his social media submit. “I used to be not simply the driving force but in addition dedicated sponsorship for his or her Daytona 500 effort.”

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