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From Today's USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/2005-11-29-carmichael-future_x.htm?csp=34
Supercross champ looking ahead to 4-wheel challenges
By Amy Rosewater, Special for USA TODAY
What do you do when you're 26 and have won virtually every race there is on two wheels?
Ricky Carmichael holds up the AMA No. 1 plate after clinching the 2005 AMA 250cc Motocross Championship, his sixth straight title.
By Larry Lawrence, AMA Pro Racing
You start thinking about racing in NASCAR.
That's what Ricky Carmichael says he hopes to do someday. Carmichael, a six-time AMA 250 motocross champion and the winningest rider with 129 victories, has already tested with one NASCAR team and is making inroads with others. His contract with Suzuki expires in 2007, and Carmichael plans to honor that commitment.
"Definitely, I'm interested in NASCAR," Carmichael said in a telephone interview earlier this week. "I've had a good opportunity to talk to some folks and it's something I'd like to try."
Carmichael has never sat behind the wheel for an auto race. He did, however, test a Late Model, a stock car often used as a steppingstone to NASCAR's top circuits, for Ray Evernham in August.
The transition from two wheels to four was an adjustment.
"It did feel fast," said Carmichael, who is more accustomed to launching motorcycles into the air on man-made dirt tracks than he is at turning left around oval tracks in cars. "It was just fun. It was challenging for me. It was a lot harder than people think. People say, 'Oh, you just get in and turn left.' But it ain't that way, let me tell you."
Carmichael got in touch with Evernham, the former crew chief for Jeff Gordon who runs his own NASCAR Nextel Cup operation, through Kasey Kahne, who drives for Evernham. Carmichael said he also has spoken with J.D. Gibbs, son of Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs and president of Gibbs Racing, about potential rides.
At the moment, he's focused on the Amp'd Mobile World Supercross GP Series, which begins Saturday in Toronto."I can't get ahead of myself," he said. "Motocross is what I've always done and it's what I love." (Related story: "Tiger Woods of Motocross" sets sights on Carmichael)
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/2005-11-29-carmichael-future_x.htm?csp=34
Supercross champ looking ahead to 4-wheel challenges
By Amy Rosewater, Special for USA TODAY
What do you do when you're 26 and have won virtually every race there is on two wheels?
Ricky Carmichael holds up the AMA No. 1 plate after clinching the 2005 AMA 250cc Motocross Championship, his sixth straight title.
By Larry Lawrence, AMA Pro Racing
You start thinking about racing in NASCAR.
That's what Ricky Carmichael says he hopes to do someday. Carmichael, a six-time AMA 250 motocross champion and the winningest rider with 129 victories, has already tested with one NASCAR team and is making inroads with others. His contract with Suzuki expires in 2007, and Carmichael plans to honor that commitment.
"Definitely, I'm interested in NASCAR," Carmichael said in a telephone interview earlier this week. "I've had a good opportunity to talk to some folks and it's something I'd like to try."
Carmichael has never sat behind the wheel for an auto race. He did, however, test a Late Model, a stock car often used as a steppingstone to NASCAR's top circuits, for Ray Evernham in August.
The transition from two wheels to four was an adjustment.
"It did feel fast," said Carmichael, who is more accustomed to launching motorcycles into the air on man-made dirt tracks than he is at turning left around oval tracks in cars. "It was just fun. It was challenging for me. It was a lot harder than people think. People say, 'Oh, you just get in and turn left.' But it ain't that way, let me tell you."
Carmichael got in touch with Evernham, the former crew chief for Jeff Gordon who runs his own NASCAR Nextel Cup operation, through Kasey Kahne, who drives for Evernham. Carmichael said he also has spoken with J.D. Gibbs, son of Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs and president of Gibbs Racing, about potential rides.
At the moment, he's focused on the Amp'd Mobile World Supercross GP Series, which begins Saturday in Toronto."I can't get ahead of myself," he said. "Motocross is what I've always done and it's what I love." (Related story: "Tiger Woods of Motocross" sets sights on Carmichael)
