Alum in NASCAR
Posted by David Harding
Alum in NASCAR
Posted by: David Harding (---.hsd1.il.comcast.net)
Date: August 13, 2006 04:50PM
[q]ITHACA - In some ways, Chad Walter is the prototypical success story in the world of NASCAR racing.
He arrived in Charlotte, N.C., in 1993 with little experience, but with a dream of hooking up with a race team. He started on the ground floor, sweeping floors and doing other menial tasks, before slowly working his way up the ladder to become a crew chief in NASCAR's Busch Series - now in charge of the Hendrick Motorsports' No. 5 Lowe's Racing team - with driver Kyle Busch.
But in many ways, Walter shatters the NASCAR stereotype. After all, how many people involved in NASCAR have a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University?
"I was probably the only guy who had a (Dale) Earnhardt poster at college," said Walter Wednesday in a phone interview.
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He arrived in Charlotte, N.C., in 1993 with little experience, but with a dream of hooking up with a race team. He started on the ground floor, sweeping floors and doing other menial tasks, before slowly working his way up the ladder to become a crew chief in NASCAR's Busch Series - now in charge of the Hendrick Motorsports' No. 5 Lowe's Racing team - with driver Kyle Busch.
But in many ways, Walter shatters the NASCAR stereotype. After all, how many people involved in NASCAR have a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University?
"I was probably the only guy who had a (Dale) Earnhardt poster at college," said Walter Wednesday in a phone interview.
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Re: Alum in NASCAR
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: August 14, 2006 03:25PM
What an incredibly gorgeous day it was for the NASCAR at the Glen race Sunday. Usually, good weather on race weekend means you don't have to start on rain tires.
(Also makes you wish Cornell had a quarterly system like Dartmouth's so you could spend a summer or two on campus officially.)
There's a new NASCAR abuilding and it includes a lot of college grads such as Ryan Newman (Purdue, engineering, no less). 'Course, everyone still has to learn to say the car "runs good."
(Also makes you wish Cornell had a quarterly system like Dartmouth's so you could spend a summer or two on campus officially.)
There's a new NASCAR abuilding and it includes a lot of college grads such as Ryan Newman (Purdue, engineering, no less). 'Course, everyone still has to learn to say the car "runs good."
Re: Alum in NASCAR
Posted by: Ben Rocky '04 (---.tcsn.qwest.net)
Date: August 14, 2006 03:28PM
On a side note, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is hilarious.
Re: Alum in NASCAR
Posted by: ugarte (---.axiomlegal.com)
Date: August 14, 2006 03:34PM
I don't know if anything ever came of it, but the guy who sat next to me in Wines was a wannabe open-wheel racer. Any open-wheel guys from Cornell with names just behind "Star"?
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Re: Alum in NASCAR
Posted by: French Rage (---.packetdesign.com)
Date: August 14, 2006 03:44PM
Ben Rocky 04
On a side note, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is hilarious.
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