Another Wallace wins at Michigan!

Steve Wallace, son of Rusty Wallace, made his third start in the ARCA race at Michigan today.  Wallace turned 18 on Thursday, which allowed him to enter the race at Michigan.  Michigan is considered a super speedway and you have to be 18 to race at those tracks.

Wallace started 5th, he had a shot at the pole, but he over drove the car, but 5th was still a good start for only his third race. 

This was the first time I was able to see him race, thanks to the Speed channel showing the ARCA race.  They set him up in a damn good car, he was able to take the lead fairly early and kept it until he made his green flag pit stop.  The stop was scary, not that Wallace or the crew did anything wrong, but the yellow flag flew as he was leaving his pit stall.  Luckily, with everyone else pitting and when the yellow flew compared to where he was, he stayed on the lead lap and ended up restarting second.  He took the lead back rather quickly, but there were more cautions which kept closing up the field.

The race ended with a green-white-checkered, something Wallace had never done before in a stock car, but he pulled it off and got his first ARCA win in only his third start and on a super speedway no less.  Way to go Steve!  I wonder if he heard me cheering him on?  I was loud enough, just ask my family.

Rusty Wallace had to do Trackside Live, so had to go to the booth before the race was over, they kept informing him what was happening and you should have seen the smile on his face when they showed him the final lap when Steve won..."I'm one proud papa", he said and you could see it on his face, he was very proud of his son.

I heard stories that the kid was good and they weren't tall tails, the kid is good.  He will race a few more ARCA races and I think they have him set up to run a couple of Busch races later this year too.

Where and when he'll end up as a full-time driver is still up in the air.  Rusty doesn't want to move him into the Busch Series too soon, so they're just seeing how things go.  Richard Childress also has his eyes on him, so we may wind up seeing him in a Childress Cup car sometime in the future.