[fideist]

We still need a nickname for Truex, Jr.

[steveegg]

Easy; The Other Jr (just like The Other Sadler and The Other Kyle) :-)

Some quick notes from Jayski:

• It came out during the Dodge v BDR trial that Dodge fined The Other Kyle (Petty) $45,000 for relieving Kevin Harvick in the 2004 Sharpe 500 without permission from Dodge. I'll bet that Jamie McMurray and his future father-in-law (Rusty Wallace) are glad that Ford isn't quite as jealous because MacMurray does have permission from Ford to drive the RWI #64 Dodge in the Busch Series.
• NASCAR will likely use an outside vendor, Swiss watchmaker Tissot (the "Official timekeeper of NA$¢AR") to handle scoring in 2007, replacing their in-house Dutch-built system.
• JJ expects his crew chief, Chad Knaus, to be gone for the next few races as a result of Knaus's ingenius use of a jack bolt to raise the rear glass.
• A pair of quick Busch competition notes from the Busch side of Jayski:
  • 25 pounds of weight are being moved to the right side of the car (the cars will still weigh 3400 pounds, the weight they went up to last year)
  • The 5 official tests for the Busch Series are Daytona (already happened), Las Vegas (already happened), Lowe's, Richmond and Martinsville (during the race weekend). Also, rookies will get an additional 30-minute "rookies only" practice session the first time the series visits a track.

[steveegg]

Speaking of nicknames, we need some for the other rookies (Bowyer, Hamlin, Yeley, Sorenson, Stremme, Sherman and Chaffin).