Well today's scuttlebutt is that Jr will have a second Busch car running at JRM #83 with six different drivers. [this is a definite] Hopefully one will be himself.
Kerry Earnhardt's son Jeffrey will have some kind of announcement in the next few weeks about racing.
Crash will probably be one of those drivers. I'm so hoping Steve Park will be one.
And Jr flew to Georgia today for an unknown reason and so did Smoke - maybe doing a promo for the track??
Also, rumors still abound with Jr being in the Rolex. Some were spoken by reliable folks, so the next few days will tell.
IN MY OPINION
NASCAR's MassCar?
Fans show plenty in name suggestions for Cup car to debut in '07
DAVID POOLE
dpoole@charlotteobserver.com
File / The Charlotte Observer
In NASCAR's Nextel Cup Series, the "car of tomorrow" arrives in the 2007 season.The Dodo, because it has wings but won't fly.
The Quickbrick. Boomerang. 21 Cent -- like 50 Cent, but for the 21st century.
Last week, I asked fans to suggest nicknames for the "car of tomorrow," since it won't be that once it has been on the track.
My suggestion was Zipper, because the chassis is being measured on XYZ coordinates in NASCAR's inspection process. I still kind of like it, but I did get a lot of pretty good suggestions.
Like Edsel. About 50 times. NASCAR has a lot of work to do in selling this concept to fans. It knows that, but if there's any doubt all its officials would have to do is read my e-mail over the past week.
A lot of responses I got, frankly, were unprintable. Others came close. One fan offered this progression: C = Cutter; CC = Cookie Cutter; CCC = Cookie Cutter Crap; CCCC = Complete Cookie Cutter Crap.
Albatross? Formula Zero?
I got Slot Car, Box Car, Block Car, UniCar and -- because the cars supposedly will be more and more alike -- MassCar. I actually kind of like MassCar.
I also like Ditto and, for a reason I am not sure I can articulate, the FoxyMoron.
Someone suggested the RS, standing for Retro Shoebox. Another person suggested NAS-car, with NAS standing for Not A Stock-car.
Autodrone and Autoclone came in, as did several variations on "clone." There were several variations on "aero," as in aerodynamics, and when you think about it Arrow would not be bad name for the car.
You have to appreciate the amount of thought that went into some suggestions.
Take, for example, the person who said the car should be called Lassie or Rin Tin Tin. "Both pooches showed up to save the show each and every week," the author said. "Just like NASCAR is trying to do." It was hard to be certain, but I'm pretty sure he was being facetious.
How about the Zaster (disaster)? Or the XYZ-car, which would be pronounced Zi-Car. My problem with that is somebody might decide that should be pronounced Shu-SHEF-Ski and we don't need that.
There was the Spruce Goose, the Axis and the Ugly Duckling. One fan gave me names for all four car makes -- the Ford Fiasco, the Chevrolet Chaos, the Dodge Disaster and the Toyota Turmoil.
Then, there were some that were just silly. Robbing Hood? Extended Warren T.? The Bumper Thumper? Booty Haul?
Keep `em coming.