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 | Wallace to hospital | | BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Rusty Wallace was injured in an accident with Michael Waltrip during Saturday night's Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway and was taken to a Bristol-area hospital. |
| | Wallace was treated and released later in the evening after a negative CT scan. |
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"I have some really sore ribs and I bit the heck out of my tongue, but I've been up and moving around all morning long," Wallace said early Sunday afternoon.
"I haven't seen the tape of the crash yet and several people have told me that I might not want to see it," Wallace said, managing a chuckle.
"I did all I could to avoid hitting the 15 car," Wallace said of the accident in which Michael Waltrip got into the outside wall and slid back
down the track in Wallace's path. "I'm just glad that we both came out of that one okay.
"When I was in the infield care center there at the track, Dr. Petty said that it might be a good idea to go get a CT scan, so we went
over to the hospital (Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center) and checked out just fine."
"Like I said, I'm fine but really sore right now. But if we had to race at Darlington tomorrow, I'd be right there ready to go.
"I'm disappointed more than anything else because after we made that pit stop, our car was really flying. But we'll never get to see just how strong it was.
"This season is beginning to remind me of our year in '92 when we had all kinds of problems and just never could get things rolling along in the right direction," Wallace said.
"But as wacky as things are in the sport today, it'd be just right for us to win at Darlington this week."
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