Gary Bradberry and the #78 team are also missing at Rockingham. The driver reportedly is awaiting payment from sponsor Pilot before running more races( Times-Dispatch ), not sure what happened with the Pharb deal — I hear Pharb, has pulled a Big Daddy’s and not paid, Pilot needs a co-sponsor or the team doesn’t have enough $$ to run every race. Pharb was also on the #57 Jason Keller IGA Chevy in the BGN as an Assoc — I hear that since Pharb pulled out, Pilot decided not to sponsor the team either and that the team is looking to sell it’s cars and equipment — I now hear the team is NOT selling equipment, but looking for a sponsor so it can keep running in 1999, but won’t run until it finds a sponsor, and it looks like Pilot is out — The #78 Triad Motorsports team, with driver Gary Bradberry, has lost one of its primary co-sponsors and the status of the other is currently in limbo, team owner Jim Wilson said Wednesday. Wilson said Pilot Travel Centers, which had sponsored the #78 Ford last season, has not officially informed him of its sponsorship plans for 1999, but he is still hopeful that Pilot will be on the car this season. Wilson said PHARBCO, a pharmaceutical company, announced its intentions to be the co-primary sponsor of the car at the Winston Cup Preview in Winston-Salem, NC, in January, but did not come through with its financial commitment and has dropped out of the picture. The team will skip Vegas but plans to run Atlanta( NASCAR Online )
