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To: NormsRevenge

Great thing Jeff did there.


395 posted on 12/17/2006 4:16:17 AM PST by WestCoastGal (Winners Never Quit!!)
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HOMEWORK - Be ready to see a lot of new faces and car numbers in February.




Ryan McGee / FOXSports.com

Robert Yates Racing
The Ride: No. 28/88 Ford, Mars
Who: Ricky Rudd


The Ride: No. 38 M&M's Ford
Who: David Gilliland
On July 31, Gilliland's Busch Series team announced that it was closing its doors because, "We put our heart, soul and resources into David Gilliland. Personally and financially, we do not feel it is best to move forward at this time." Meanwhile, a Yates press conference at Indianapolis to make a driver announcement was postponed. Gilliland drove the No. 90 Yates Busch Series car at Indianapolis Raceway Park while Leicht attempted to qualify for the Brickyard. You do the math. Gilliland tested the No. 38 car at Kentucky on August 15 and began his RYR Cup career at Michigan later that week.

Morgan-McClure Motorsports
The Ride: No. 4 Chevrolet
Who: Ward Burton
South Boston, Va. native Ward Burton will be back in '07, behind the wheel of the Morgan-McClure Motorsports No. 4 Chevy, though the car admittedly needs more sponsorship cash to make it competitive. The 2002 Daytona 500 champ hasn't raced full-time since losing his job at Haas CNC Racing the end of the 2004 season.

Haas CNC Racing
The Ride: No. 70 Chevrolet
Who: Johnny Sauter
According to Larry McReynolds, "Bootie is back in the Busch Series because owner Gene Haas wanted to realign that team before the year ended. Johnny Sauter will move to Nextel Cup next year, which will put Bootie back in Cup, too. Haas put Harold Holly back with Jeff Green. They had a tremendous amount of success in the Busch Series, winning a championship together. The goal was to get both drivers and crew chiefs some seat time before 2007 started."

Red Bull Racing
The Ride: No. 83 Red Bull Toyota
Who: Brian Vickers
Vickers shocked the world — not to mention Rick Hendrick — when he announced he would be leaving the ride that he was handed by the late Ricky Hendrick for the start-up Toyota squad. Along with Michael Waltrip Racing, Red Bull is starting from scratch. For some drivers, that is a scary thought. For Vickers, it is an exciting one.

The Ride: No. 84 Red Bull Toyota
Who: A.J. Allmendinger
On October 24, A.J. Allmendinger became the latest open-wheel defector when the Champ Car driver signed a deal to drive for Team Red Bull in NASCAR. The 25 year old signed a multiyear deal to drive the No. 84 Camry, and completes a lineup that already includes 23-year-old Brian Vickers, who announced in June he was joining the team.

Roush Racing
The Ride: No. 6 AAA Ford
Who: David Ragan
At Talladega, Roush team president Geoff Smith said Jack Roush would make a choice for the 6 car within the next two weeks from among four rookies, and he chose Ragan, who currently shares the No. 6 Truck with Mark Martin and also pilots the No. 50. He started his first career Nextel Cup race at Dover in September and is set to make four more starts in the Nextel Cup Series in 2006. He will make his first start in the No. 6 in the 2007 Daytona 500.

Michael Waltrip Racing
The Ride: No. 00 Burger King/Domino's Pizza Toyota
Who: David Reutimann
The name that continued to be connected to this high-caloric ride was Waltrip's fellow Owensboro, Ky. native Jeremy Mayfield, but at Watkins Glen, Waltrip said that he and Mayfield decided to go their separate ways. Reutimann will join Waltrip and Dale Jarrett as the third car for this team in 2007.

The Ride: No. 55 NAPA Toyota, Michael Waltrip Racing
Who: Michael Waltrip
It has long been known that Mikey was using BDR as a one-year stopover on the way to owning his own Toyota-backed race team. NAPA seems to be willing to follow the two-time Daytona 500 winner to the ends of the earth... or at least all the way to Japan.
The Ride: No. 44 UPS Toyota, Michael Waltrip Racing
Who: Dale Jarrett Jarrett got this year's Silly Season started when he announced at Darlington in May that he would be leaving Robert Yates Racing after 12 seasons to join fellow forty-something Waltrip. The 1999 Cup champ will provide MWR with the luxury of having a past champion's provisional to fall back on at the beginning of the season. At first, UPS wavered on whether or not to stay with Yates, but eventually decided to jump ship with D.J. Waltrip is trying to land No. 44, which is currently controlled by Petty Enterprises and on loan to Hendrick Motorsports for Terry Labonte.

Ginn Racing
The Ride: No. 01 Chevrolet
Who: Mark Martin, Regan Smith
Martin will share the ride in the No. 01 Chevrolet with rookie Regan Smith, a 23-year-old regular in the Busch Series. Joe Nemechek, currently racing in the No. 01, will remain with Ginn, but will move to a third team (the No. 13 entry), while Sterling Marlin will stay in the team's No. 14 Chevy.

Wood Brothers Racing
The Ride: No. 21 Little Debbie's/Ore-Ida Extra Crispy French Fries and Delimex Delicious Mexican Cuisine Ford
Who: Ken Schrader/Jon Wood
Schrader will return for a 24th season of Cup racing in a part-time ride. The 24-year son of team owner Eddie Wood will become the first family member to drive a Cup race since granddad Glen made his 62nd and final start at Roanoke, Virginia in 1964.


Evernham Motorsports
The Ride: No. 19 Dodge Dealers Dodge
Who: Elliott Sadler
Jeremy Mayfield has been terminated as the driver of the No. 19 car, which made The Chase in each of the last two seasons. Sadler has taken over this ride, but he won't bring his candy-covered chocolates with him.

Hendrick Motorsports
The Ride: No. 25 GMAC Chevy
Who: Casey Mears
Mears was already looking for a ride outside of Chip Ganassi Racing next season and appeared headed to a Toyota team... then Brian Vickers announced he was leaving Hendrick. Within minutes, Mears' running buddy Jimmie Johnson and mentor Rick Hendrick were on the phone with a job offer. He took it.

Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates
The Ride: No. 42 Texaco-Havoline Dodge
Who: Juan Montoya
Just when we thought this season couldn't get any sillier, Ganassi trotted his former CART and Indy 500 champ into the Chicagoland media center. The Colombian-born Formula One racer still needs to work out some kinks in his contract with McLaren, but expect the good people at Daimler-Chrysler — Ganassi runs Dodges, McLaren runs Mercedes — to smooth out any bumps in the road.
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Bill Davis Racing
The Ride: No. 36 Toyota
Who: Jeremy Mayfield
Davis will field two cars as part of Toyota's big launch, the first time he has enjoyed any sort of manufacturer support since angering Dodge by starting talks with Toyota several seasons ago. Jeremy Mayfield, who was released by Evernham Motorsports, was named to drive the car at Bristol on August 25.

Dale Earnhardt Incorporated

The Ride: No. 15 Menard's Chevy
Who: Paul Menard
After dipping his toe in the Cup waters this season, Menard will run a full schedule in '07 and run for Rookie of the Year as a teammate to the Juniors — Dale Earnhardt and Martin Truex.


Note: I have read elsewhere that Pops will be Menards crewchief!! YAY!!


396 posted on 12/17/2006 4:39:28 AM PST by WestCoastGal (Winners Never Quit!!)
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To: tubebender; SouthTexas

RacingOne continues our annual "Fan Awards" with a look back at some of the worst television shows devoted to racing from the 2006 season.
RacingOne's Selection
The airwaves were literally full of racing programming in 2006, but one show stands out as the worst of the bunch and that's Trading Paint with Michael Waltrip and a media member going "head-to-head" on a variety of issues. That's not a bad concept for a show, but this program has two things against it - deep and controversial topics are never discussed and of course it provides yet another on-air slot for Michael Waltrip.

Other candidates include the Speed Report, SPEED's overly-glossy Sunday night wrap-up show that employs two of the most plastic hosts in television history and completely ignores 80 percent of the racing world outside of NASCAR, Raceline, a syndicated program that has the production values of a high school broadcast and Inside NEXTEL Cup, which has de-volved into the Michael Waltrip Un-Comedy Hour.

http://racingone.com/article.aspx?artnum=32610




I hated that Speed Report show! And, well Mikey......what can you say?


397 posted on 12/17/2006 5:33:01 AM PST by WestCoastGal (Winners Never Quit!!)
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