Staying Put?; Sam Hornish Jr. will stay in the IRL, but maybe not for long.(Indy Racing League champion may sign NASCAR contract)(Brief Article)
AutoWeek, July, 2002 by Cavin, Curt
No one is saying Sam Hornish Jr. is the next Tony Stewart, although he's on Stewart's path. Hornish, an Indy Racing League champion like Stewart, is expected to sign a NASCAR contract sometime this month. Details have not yet been finalized, but he'll probably run a couple of races next season for Dale Earnhardt Inc., maybe even the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400.
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If Hornish performs as well in NASCAR as he did in his first International Race of Champions event at Daytona in February (second to Stewart, of all people), he might end up finding stock car racing an even bigger ...
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