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There are Second Acts in American racing careers. Just ask Jeff Simmons.

STEVE CRAIG
for SZ

WATKINS GLEN, 07.05.08 - Jeff Simmons was coming back to Watkins Glen. That was both good news and bad.

The good is that, as he rolled up to the start of the one-day doubleheader, the Corning Duels at Watkins Glen, he had already won at the venerable 11-turn, 3.4-mile road course in an Indy Pro Series race, in the prior open wheel racing developmental league, in 2005.

The bad? After spending the better part of two years driving in the IndyCar ranks for Rahal Letterman Racing, the 31-year-old from Connecticut is back driving in the minors.

Simmons is trying to focus on the good.

“I love Watkins Glen, the whole area,” Simmons said in a recent teleconference. “Whenever I drive up to the gate, it brings a big smile to my face.”

Simmons, and the second-year Team Moore Racing (TMR) outfit, have shown plenty of positive signs in their first six races together, even though the group missed the season-opener at Homestead Speedway.

He won the pole at the St. Petersburg road course in his second start with TMR and led the first 25 laps before crashing. Since then, he has ...

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