“Darrell Waltrip is heading to the final race of the season still looking for a sponsor for 1998. ”We’ve got a whole bunch of definite maybes,” he said after Sunday’s 12th-place finish. ”I didn’t want it to be this way, but it looks like it’s going to come down to the final hour. It looks like something will surface, but I don’t know exactly what yet. ”At the beginning of the season I was thinking this would be my last year and that I’d just race part-time in ’98 . . . because I thought Western Auto was going to stay. And I thought Kentucky Fried Chicken would step up for Rich (Bickle).” None of that happened, however, and Waltrip is scrambling. ”Driving part-time seems like such a neat idea,” he said, ”but you can’t. You lose so much when you do that. It takes the same amount of equipment, and still a lot of people. But you’re nowhere in the points. Economically and strategically it doesn’t work.” (Mike Mulhern,JournalNow/NASCAR Fans)(11-4-97)
