Alum in NASCAR

[David Harding]

[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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[billhoward]

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."

[Ben Rocky '04]

On a side note, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is hilarious.

[ugarte]

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"?

[French Rage]

[quote Ben Rocky 04]On a side note, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is hilarious.[/quote]

"You taste like America."