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.
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