Long-time car Cup owner Junie Donlavey(#90 Ford) has a press conference scheduled for noon Wednesday in Richmond to announce his plans for the 1999 Winston Cup season( That’s Racin’ ) — Donlavey said Dick Trickle would not return as his driver. Should the sponsorship deal go through Tuesday night, Donlavey said it would be a different driver, one that hasn’t participated in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series on a regular basis previously. It would be a full-year deal with a rookie driver. Donlavey said he has not named a crew chief for the team as of yet. If and when the sponsorship deal is finalized, he said, he’ll concentrate on that(NASCAR Online) — Veteran NASCAR Winston Cup car owner Junie Donlavey is expected to announce a new primary sponsor — Big Daddy’s — at a press conference to be held Wednesday in Richmond, VA. Big Daddy’s is a major producer of Bar-B-Que(and an advertiser of this site) sauce, spices and meat products. Country.com Motorsports has also learned the team will make a surprise driver announcement naming short-track veteran Mike Harmon as the pilot of the #90 Ford Taurus( TNN’s Motorsports Site )(12-15-98) — It’s official, see NASCAR Online at Big Daddy’s backing Donlavey in 50th year , by the way Harmon is Junie’s 68th driver in the Cup series.(12-16-98) — see an update on this story at the Times-Dispatch: Big Daddy’s signs on with Donlavey’s team (12-17-98) (12-17-1998)
