Well my speculation on Truex just went out the window. BUT< Chad McCUmbee is still taking on the 45 for Kyle Petty. Some pretty big shake ups there.
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Labonte, General Mills to RCR
By Bob Margolis, Yahoo! Sports
2 hours, 26 minutes ago
Richard Childress Racing will field a fourth car in 2009 with sponsorship from General Mills, and Yahoo! Sports has learned that Bobby Labonte, the 2000 Cup champion, will be the driver.
Labonte, who has spent the past two-plus seasons driving for Petty Enterprises, will drive the No. 33 car.
Yahoo! Sports originally reported in February this exact story – that Labonte would be the driver of a fourth RCR car, with sponsorship from General Mills. At that time, Richard Childress acknowledged that he would field a fourth car, but denied Labonte would be the driver.
“No, no, no,” Childress told Fox Sports.
But sources close to the negotiations continue to confirm to Yahoo! Sports that a deal between Childress and Labonte is done.
Rumors of Labonte’s move to Childress began at the start of the 2008 season when Labonte signed to drive the No. 21 Nationwide car for Childress. It is expected the majority of the No. 21 team, headed by crew chief Shane Wilson, will move up to work on the new Sprint Car team.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar;_ylt=AlsgokU08V4McOBvEMH1pTw5nYcB
Not even to the spring Texas race and they are beginning “silly season”. Almost as bad as politics starting two years before the election!