IndyCar Series champion Sam Hornish Jr. has one racing goal remaining in 2006. source: indycar.com "I certainly would like add an IROC race win to what has been a pretty good year for me," the reigning Indianapolis 500 champion said after testing a Crown Royal IROC Series car at Atlanta Motor Speedway in advance of the Oct. 28 series finale. "I feel pretty comfortable so far for the first day, but no matter how comfortable you get during practice it all changes once we get everybody out there for the race." The 65-lap event on the 1.54-mile oval (3:15 p.m. ET, Speed) will be fourth and final race of the 30th anniversary season of the all-star series that matches 12 drivers from different disciplines of auto racing in equally prepared cars. Points are awarded for finishing positions, with a champion of champions named after the final race. Hornish, tied with Mark Martin and Frank Kimmel for sixth place, will start seventh in the race. Hornish, competing in his third IROC Series season, matched his career-best second place in the opener at Daytona International Speedway. He placed 12th (mechanical) at Texas Motor Speedway and fifth on the Daytona road course in June. IndyCar Series veteran Scott Sharp will start fourth. He is tied with Wayne Taylor/Max Angelelli for ninth (26 points) after finishes of ninth, seventh and fourth. "It's been a blast," said Sharp, who is competed in the IROC Series for the fifth time. "The results haven't been nearly as good as the racing has been. I had a really good race going at Daytona (oval) when I got caught in the Tony Stewart-Steve Kinser crash. I had a really good run going on the Daytona road course, running second for awhile, and ended up fourth. "Atlanta is always a really fast race, almost wide open all the way around. I'm definitely looking forward to it."
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