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Mike Wallace, 65 and Widowed, Takes Aim at 2025 Daytona 500 as NASCAR Season Approaches

You looking for a longshot in this year’s Daytona 500? A potential feel-good story?

How ’bout if it’s also a guy with a reputation for comfort in big-pack racing with a couple of wins at the World Center of Racing?

Oh, also, he’s a 65-year-old widower.

Carl Long, a here-and-there team owner in NASCAR, announced Thursday he’s hired Mike Wallace — of the previous generation’s racing Wallace brothers — to enter the 2025 Daytona 500 in the team’s No. 66 Ford.

Read the rest of Ken Willis’ Daytona Beach News-Journal article by clicking here.

(Photo:  Daytona Beach News-Journal)