Sonic Drive In Restaurants who sponsored the #98 Yarborough-Burdette Ford at Daytona may extend for the full season. Also there is supposed to be an announcement this week on a major associate sponsor deal for the team(RPM2Nite/Bill Weber) — the Yarborough-Burdette #98 Cup team is very close to announcing short and long term plans. It appears that the Sonic Drive-Thru Restaurant deal was a one-time sponsor situation, but with serious thoughts for the 2000 season as far as a much bigger involvement. Sometime this week, a major communications company will announce a very agressive associate sponsor program that will probably carry much of the teams needs throughout the 1999 season(Jayski Note: may be that phone card deal rumored here a few weeks ago). There is also talk of a MAJOR contract on the table that involves a Three-year agreement with no more details available at this time. See the Racin’ with Russ Winston Cup page for more info — I hear the team has five letters of intent to sponsor them for this year and beyond. However there have been no checks written so things are still in a holding pattern. I hear the Sonic people were happy with the promotion and are looking into somethinf either this year or next
