Newman-Wallace incident scrutinized

Canun, Mexico will have a Formula One race in 2006.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NASCAR is investigating a postrace incident involving Penske Racing South drivers Ryan Newman and Rusty Wallace, spokesman Mike Zizzo confirmed Monday.
NASCAR is gathering information and looking at video and it is not clear what -- if any -- penalties will be assessed, Zizzo said.
Newman and Wallace traded bumps while battling for second place, which sent Wallace to the outside lane on Lap 494 of 500 in Sunday's Subway 500 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.
After the cool-down lap, Newman, who finished third, drove on to pit road where the top-five cars are required to stop. Wallace followed Newman and appeared to hit the rear of Newman's No.12 Dodge.
"I don't guess Rusty and I are on speaking terms right now," Newman said Sunday. "I know I was underneath him and I know he came down on me.
"I wasn't going to give him anything, so he got loose and lost a bunch of spots.
"He came up and hit my car after the race."
Newman was second at the white flag, but Jamie McMurray banged past him to take that spot.
"If I had done to Jamie what he did to me in Turns 1 and 2, I would have taken a chance on spinning him out," Newman said.
Added Newman: "I haven't got called to the [NASCAR] trailer yet but I was on the receiving end of both Rusty and his future son-in-law. So we'll see what happens."
Newman apparently was referring to McMurray, who has been dating Wallace's daughter, Katie.
New Formula One race
MEXICO CITY -- Formula One has signed a five-year agreement to hold a race in Cancun starting in 2006, joining NASCAR in heading south of the border.
Quintana Roo Gov. Joaquin Hendricks and federal Tourism Secretary Rodolfo Elizondo made the announcement Monday. Construction on a new $70 million track just south of Cancun's international airport is expected to begin in January.
The announcement comes less than three months after NASCAR confirmed it was bringing the Busch series into Mexico City next season for the first international points-paying event in over 50 years.
The race at the Hermanos Rodriguez Autodrome road course will be held March 6, and be the third event on the 35-race schedule. It will mark the return of road-course racing for the junior-level Busch series.
This will not be Formula One's first foray into Mexico.
Formula One races were held at the Hermanos Rodriguez Autodrome intermittently from the 1960s until 1992, when the increasingly bumpy track was dropped from the circuit.
The Mexico City track was revamped and restored for Champ Car racing in 2002. Last year's race drew 221,011 spectators. The track drew a three-day total of 402,413 fans during the Champ Car weekend.