Lally eager to return to Road America - The Sheboygan Press
But a close second to that, especially because of how it races, is Road America,” Lally said in a phone interview on Tuesday. “One of the best places you can race a stock car on a road course because there is so much room and there’s so many places to challenge for passes. It’s one of my favorite race tracks to drive on. ”. Lally will drive the No. 90 Anderson Pure Maple Syrup Chevrolet Camaro at the Road America 180 Fired up by Johnsonville this weekend after posting a seventh-place finish in the event last year. Since that finish though, he has been in a stock car just once — two weeks ago he placed 21st at the Mid-Ohio road course in an Xfinity series race —but he is eager to get back behind the wheel and possibly earn the chance to race more often than... “Knocked the rust off with (the race at Mid-Ohio) a little bit and got rolling, but this is the primary one we are focusing on,” said Lally, the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year. In past years, a driver of Lally’s abilities — he grew up racing on road courses and is skilled making the right and left turns — would be a coveted commodity around the Sprint Cup garage. Road course specialists were often brought in for the series’ two road courses, Watkins Glen and Sonoma, as some drivers disliked or struggled on such tracks. Source: www.sheboyganpress.com
