No double for John Andretti.
It appears that John Andretti's wish to again compete in the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day must wait another year.
Andretti was the first driver to accomplish the feat, in 1994, and he wanted to do it again this year. But his boss in his full-time job as a NASCAR Winston Cup driver, Kyle Petty, won't allow Andretti to attempt the daily double.
It appears that John Andretti's wish to again compete in the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day must wait another year.
Andretti was the first driver to accomplish the feat, in 1994, and he wanted to do it again this year. But his boss in his full-time job as a NASCAR Winston Cup driver, Kyle Petty, won't allow Andretti to attempt the daily double.
"John's not going to do it," Petty said in an Associated Press report last weekend at Bristol. "We're just not in a position to let John do this at this time. I want John to do it, but we need his focus to be on the Winston Cup cars."
"I 100 percent want to do it, so I asked, and then I listened for a while," Andretti told the AP. "He kind of made his thoughts known, and I believe he thinks the conversation is over. I kind of think it might still be hanging a little bit."
Petty is hopeful Andretti will get a chance to race at Indy and Charlotte on the same day very soon. "His name and Indy are synonymous, and I know he'd like to get back to it," Petty told the AP. "But it's got to be the right time for everyone, not just the right time for John. Right now, it's not the right time for us."
