Tracy won't race NASCAR at Michigan next week
Paul Tracy will have the weekend off next week after all.
Two days of testing at Michigan earlier this week was not enough to convince NASCAR owner Richard Childress that Tracy is ready to make his Nextel Cup debut at the high speed oval in next weekend's GFS Marketplace 400.
The team has yet to say what the reason is behind the decision.
By all appearances Tracy gave a good account of himself during a two-day test at the Michigan oval, a track where the former Champ Car champion still holds the open-wheel qualifying record with a top speed of 234.949 mph set in July 2000.
"He adapted to the race car really fast, he adapted well to the way we do things as a group," Bobbie Leslie, special projects crew chief with RCR, said of Tracy's test. "He's really impressed all of us."
Tracy admitted that the test was also an opportunity to see if NASCAR was the next logical step in his racing career.
"I've done about all I can do and accomplished everything I wanted to in Champ Car," he said Tuesday. "When this opportunity comes around to get in with a good car, it's really what keeps you motivated.
"I need to try something different to keep my motivation high. Whether it's making a change, which is big in your whole lifestyle, or sticking with what I have now."
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