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June 2, 2003
3:33 PM EDT (1933 GMT)
Former CART Indy car champion Jimmy Vasser, who made a startling debut in the NASCAR Busch Series at Speedweeks 2003, said over the weekend that he hoped to return to a stock car later this season.
Vasser was running a Braun Racing Dodge in the top-10 in the final five laps of the Koolerz 300 at Daytona International Speedway -- an event for which he qualified fifth -- when he was hit from behind, setting off a multi-car accident.
He said that he would like to get back into a Busch car in "August or September."
Vasser, who finished 11th Saturday night in the first prime time CART race under the lights in Milwaukee, is into the meat of his CART schedule. It hasn't kept him from thinking further about expanding his initial heady taste of stock cars.
"I'd like to try to create an opportunity for myself down there," Vasser said, adding that he's gotten some advice and assistance from a couple Ganassi Racing insiders, team manager Andy Graves, who formerly was with Ganassi's Indy car team; and talent scout Lorin Ranier.
Vasser has only one free weekend from CART in August, but that coincides with the Busch weekend at Michigan International Speedway, a track he's familiar with from Indy cars.
He has the first three weekends in September free, but it remains to be seen what will be pulled together.
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