I love that car Pete!! In a way it seems like it was meant to be that he race one more year. He came so close last year to winning a few more races, so I look for really good things from him.
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Steve - From your post on the other thread re: Matt flying his own plane, I also heard Jr bought Smoke's chopper. I'm not sure about that [haven't seen it in print], but the reason I put them together here is that I just have this fear of all the drivers flying everywhere on all this various equipment. I hope they keep them in good condition and think we should have a prayer for all of them having to do that to get places quicker because of us the fans for the most part.
Now back to that "C" group bunch. What the heck was Yahoo thinking? FrontRowJoe didn't do anything to get in "B". I can see Mears going, but he does have a new car and crewchief this year. Oh well, there's always Boris!
Another round of Daytona testing will begin today.......
Drivers expected to test this week are: Joe Nemechek, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Green, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Mark Martin, Denny Hamlin, Sterling Marlin, J.J. Yeley, Dave Blaney, Brian Vickers, Jamie McMurray, Kevin Harvick, Greg Biffle, Casey Mears, Kyle Petty, Brent Sherman, Michael Waltrip, Carl Edwards, Paul Tracy/Robby Gordon, Travis Kvapil, Scott Riggs, Dale Jarrett and Mike Wallace.
There will again be new team/driver combinations here this week who will concentrate less on speed perhaps and more on learning how to work together.
I guess having nearly everybody max out on Front Row Joe caused Yahoo to put him in the "B" category. He also averaged the 5th-highest points last year among the 2006 "B" drivers (and 12 points more than the next-highest "regular C" driver, Kyle Petty). I am surprised they didn't move Crash down to "C" though.