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Marcos Ambrose, Wise for his Age Posted:0535hrs
By Amy Hair,Senior Columnist,Cup Scene Daily (Daytona Beach Fla.)-He finished 8th last year for the season in his first full year in the Nationwide Series. When testing finished up this week, Ambrose had a high speed of 183.655 putting him in the 13th highest spot for the sessions. Keeping in mind that speeds during testing aren’t always what they seem, Ambrose had to have felt pretty good keeping his rpm’s running in the top 15. Reminiscing a bit on what he learned last year, Ambrose said: Not being a stranger to racing, Marcos took the Championship in the Australian V-8 Supercar Series in 2003 and 2004. At the first V-8 Supercar race in 2005, he held a press conference to announce that would be his last year in V-8 Supercar, as he planned on trying his hand at NASCAR. Saying and doing it are by far two very different things. Ambrose first experience in NASCAR was behind the wheel of a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series truck and it was definitely a new adventure. He’d never driven on oval tracks; his experience was on road courses. Nor had he ever driven a car with the steering wheel on the left side, all his driving had been with the wheel on the right. “Really I had to throw everything I’d learned (up to the point) away,” Ambrose said. “The basic principles apply. You’ve got to apply yourself fully, try at it, focus at it. You’ve got to commit yourself to whatever you’re doing. You’ve got to get out there and race the machine…its man vs. machine.” While Marcos thought he was starting from scratch, in truth he was far from doing that. Though his experience in a stock car is limited, his experience running at high speeds and taking risks are not. This year Ambrose can truthfully say he’s not a rookie in the Nationwide Series anymore…and with that, we’ll be watching very close as he attempts to prove to himself that he can conquer this daring, knock your socks off, screaming, rowdy sport they call NASCAR. Marcos personality reveals very quickly that it will take more than a mistake or a bad call by another competitor to ruin his outlook. Last year, in the then Busch Series race in Montreal, he and Robby Gordon had a bumper to bumper discussion that ended with Ambrose getting the bad end of the deal: “You know, races come and go, and some day’s it your day and some day’s its not. I always promised myself when I came across to the USA that I’d have to remember that I’m lucky to be here and that I’m lucky to race. And that incident in Montreal, we had a great day, we led a lot of laps. We were probably the moral (winner) of the day. I’ve done the wrong thing plenty of times…and I learn from my experiences. I wasn’t going to put that victory in my back pocket, it was gone and (it was time to) just move on. That’s my character, I’m pretty laid back…If I was any more laid back, I’d be horizontal.”
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