Well, I wouldn’t say Biffle is a BIG name.
DEI cannot ever be successful without Jr. JMO.. They haven’t been so far because they did not put the effort into the racing portion of the company. That’s been the biggest problem and why Jr wanted 51% but not with a board of directors and a Yates/Ford issue on top of it.
DEI is currently in a full company meeting.
Latest is Jr will not announce today who he will drive for next year. They had a full company meeting this morning to tell them he will NOT be driving for DEI next year.
Hendrick and RCR are the teams who could be interested.
He has sponsors lining up at the door, per Marty Smith...but already has the biggest sponsor he needs.
Rumor that Gilliland may go to DEI and there may be a merger with Yates. Good luck with all that T.
All the BIG names, other than Jr, are good through at least 2009 (i.e. all the competitive past champs, FastKasey and Flipper). The list of drivers that are confirmed free agents after this year isn't exactly deep, with a huge drop-off between Jr and Northurn Burton, and a gigantic drop-off after him. I'd think that Biffle is a bit north of Burton on the name scale.